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Switzerland
- SBF / SER
- State Secretariat for Education and Research
The State Secretariat for Education and
Research SER within the Federal Department of Home Affairs is the
federal government's specialised agency for national and international
matters concerning general and university education, research and
space.
- BBT /
OFFT / UFFT / OPET - Bundesamt für Berufsbildung und Technologie
Das Bundesamt für Berufsbildung und
Technologie ist das Kompetenzzentrum des Bundes für die Berufsbildung,
die Fachhochschulen und die Innovation. Mit seinen Aktivitäten trägt es
dazu bei, dass qualifizierte Arbeitskräfte ausgebildet werden und die
Schweiz ein attraktiver und innovationsfähiger Wirtschafts- und
Bildungsstandort bleibt. Das BBT ist ein Amt des Eidgenössischen
Volkswirtschaftsdepartements (EVD).
- EDK / CDIP /
CDPE / CDEP - Swiss Conference of Cantonal Ministers of Education
In Switzerland, the main responsibility for
education and culture lies with the cantons. They coordinate their work
at the national level. The 26 cantonal ministers of education together
form a political body to carry out this work: the Swiss Conference of
Cantonal Ministers of Education. Legally binding, intercantonal
agreements (known as concordats) form the foundation for the work of
the EDK.
- Educa
- the Swiss Education Server
- SWTR / CSST/ SSTC - Swiss
Science and Technology Council
The Swiss Science and Technology Council is
the advisory body to the Federal Council for issues related to science,
higher education, research and technology policy.
- Berufsberatung
Das Portal für Berufswahl,
Studium und Laufbahnfragen
- WAB
- Die Weiterbildungsdatenbank der Schweiz
- Swiss Uni - Swiss
University Continuing Education
The association’s aim is to promote and
disseminate University continuing education. It brings together the
continuing education centres in Switzerland’s Universities and
Institutes of Technology.
Its database provides details of all the training programmes for
professionals offered by Swiss Universities.
- www.ch-go.ch
- Swiss Competence Centre for Exchange and Mobility
www.ch-go.ch is the website of the Swiss
Competence Centre for exchange and mobility of the ch Foundation.
The activities offered by www.ch-go.ch include the following categories:
- Domestic
programmes:
Pestalozzi, Rousseau, Piaget
- Programme
outside Europe
Magellan
- European
programmes:
Lifelong Learning Programme (Comenius, Leonardo da Vinci, Erasmus,
Grundtvig),
Language Assistant Programme (LAP),
Youth in Action
The programmes
are aimed at all interested persons in the areas of
education and extra-curricular youth activities in all geographic and
linguistic regions of Switzerland.
The ch Foundation, based in Solothurn and Bern, is a foundation under
private law and was created in 1967. It is sponsored by all 26 Swiss
cantons. Its board is composed of 26 members of cantonal governments.
The purpose of the foundation is to build bridges between the language
communities and to preserve linguistic and cultural diversity, as well
as to promote the concept of federalism.
- eduQua
- Schweizerisches Qualitätszertifikat für Weiterbildungsinstitutionen
(see also Universities and Universities of
Applied Sciences)
Europe
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Switzerland
- Aramis
- Information System for research and development projects in
Switzerland
ARAMIS is intended to provide
information to interested parties about research which is financed or
carried out by the Federal Government, to improve co-ordination and to
increase transparency in this area.
- Nano-Tera
The mission of this program is
research, design and engineering of complex (tera-scale) systems and
networks to monitor and connect humans and/or the environment.
- Schweizer
Jugend forscht
Eine vom Bund anerkannte
gemeinnützige Stiftung, die Jugendliche darin
unterstützt, ihr innovatives Potential auszuschöpfen,
sei dies im Bereich Naturwissenschaften, Technik,
Geisteswissenschaften, Wirtschaft oder Gesellschaft.
- SNF
/ FNS - Swiss National Science Foundation
The Swiss National Science
Foundation, which operates according to the principal of scientific
independence, is a central player in publicly funded research
promotion. The primary focus of its activities is to promote
independent basic research and to foster young scientific talent. With
its interdisciplinary and problem-oriented research programmes, the
Swiss National Science Foundation attempts to provide scientifically
sound solutions to problems of social significance and to develop
scientific centres of excellence for certain subject areas.
- SwissCore
Brussels base of the Swiss
information network on European programmes in research, development and
education
- Top Nano 21 - Swiss Research Program
on Nanotechnology
TOP NANO 21 is designed to
bundle the strengths and resources of all interested specialists to be
found in Switzerland towards economic usage through the creation of new
technologies and the development of new products and services as well
as the consolidation of existing products.
The TOP NANO 21 technology platform is made up of specialists from the
fields of science and research. They form specific theme-based centers
of competence. The aim is to use these networks to pass on their
findings and knowledge about the nanometer to the Universities of
Applied Science and the industrial sector.
The protection and exploitation of the intellectual property thus
developed is a major objective for TOP NANO 21.
The integration of the subject of the nanometer in teaching is designed
to encourage the development of the next generation of scientists,
researchers and engineers.
Europe
- CORDIS
- Community Research and Development Information Service (European
Union)
- COST
Chemistry - European Co-operation in the field of Scientific
and Technical Research: Technical Committee on Chemistry
COST was set up to stimulate
and to give a framework for the European cooperation in the field of
science and technology. Surprisingly Chemistry was missing. In order to
maintain and even to improve this position of the European Chemical
Science and European Chemical Industry, it has been considered as
urgent for European's chemist to organize themselves and to elaborate a
strategic scientific scheme for basic research in Chemistry.
- ERC
- European Research Council
The main aim of the ERC is to
stimulate scientific excellence by supporting and encouraging the very
best, truly creative scientists, engineers and scholars to be
adventurous and take risks in their research. The scientists should go
beyond established frontiers of knowledge and the boundaries of
discipline.
- ESF
- European Science Foundation
The European Science Foundation
promotes high quality science at a European level. It acts as a
catalyst for the development of science by bringing together leading
scientists and funding agencies to debate, plan and implement
pan-European initiatives.
- Eureka
- Europe-wide network for industrial R&D
- 7th
Framework Programme of the European Union
The EU Framework Programmes for
Research and Technological Development are the main instruments of the
European Union for the implementation of its common science and
technology policy. This policy aims to make research a transnational
activity everywhere in Europe where it is appropriate either because of
costs and the extent of the research or because it deals with the
solution of problems of central importance to the whole of Europe.
Worldwide
- EuroCRIS
- Research information systems
Information DRIS is a
world-wide overview of current research information systems. The
information systems covered by DRIS provide information on research
organisations, researchers/scientists (expertise), or research
projects/programmes. Some information systems may contain also
publications, patents and/or conference papers.
However, pure bibliographical systems are not included in this
inventory.
DRIS is offered free of charge.
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- PSE
- Parc Scientifique (Switzerland)
Le Parc Scientifique est un site intégré pour
la création d'entreprises high-tech. Au coeur de la nouvelle économie
romande, à proximité immédiate des sources d'innovation que
représentent l'EPFL et l'UNIL, il a pour but de favoriser l'émergence
et le développement de start-up high tech.
- Technopark
Allianz (Switzerland)
Seit ihrer Gründung im Jahr 2002 hat sich
die TECHNOPARK®-Allianz, zu der die TECHNOPARK®s Aargau, Lugano,
Luzern,
Schlieren-Zürich, Winterthur und Zürich gehören, als wirkungsvolles
Organ für den
Technologietransfer etabliert.
Die TECHNOPARK®-Allianz unterstützt die in ihr angesiedelten
Unternehmen und Institutionen, die in den Bereichen Innovation,
Transfer und Produktion tätig sind. Sie schafft ein Umfeld für den
Know-how-Transfer von der Wissenschaft zur Wirtschaft und generiert
damit Innovationen im Markt.
- ETH
Transfer - Technologie-Transfer Stelle der ETH Zürich
ETH transfer is the technology
transfer office of ETH Zurich. It is a hub of activity interposed
between private industry and research. We support researchers in the
exploitation of research results, protection of intellectual property,
foundation of new companies, and cooperation with private industry. We
provide private companies with contacts to research groups and spin-off
companies. At the organizational level, ETH transfer is attached to the
Research and Industrial Relations Executive at ETH Zurich.
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Switzerland
- Swiss Federal
Institute of Intellectual Property
The Swiss Federal Institute of
Intellectual Property has its headquarters in Berne and is responsible
for all matters relating to Intellectual Property in Switzerland. It is
the Institute's job to publicise intellectual property legislation in
Switzerland. Another of its responsibilities is to point out the
relevant information that often lies hidden in the patents and which
can often be exploited at very reasonable prices.
- Swiss Federal Patent Court
As the Confederation’s court of first
instance in matters dealing with patents, the Federal Patent Court
rules on civil-law disputes concerning patents. It rules, for instance,
on litigation over patent validity as well as patent infringement. An
appeal against the decisions of the Federal Patent Court can be lodged
with the Federal Supreme Court.
Europe
- EPO -
European Patent Office
EPO grants European patents for
the contracting states to the European Patent Convention (EPC). It is
the executive arm of the European Patent Organisation, an
intergovernmental body set up under the EPC, whose members are the EPC
contracting states. Switzerland is a member of the EPC.
- Espacenet
Europe's net of patent
databases provided by the European Patent Office.
US
- USPTO
- US Patent Office
The primary services include
processing patents and trademarks and disseminating patent and
trademark information. Through the issuance of patents, we encourage
technological advancement by providing incentives to invent, invest in,
and disclose new technology worldwide. Through the registration of
trademarks, we assist businesses in protecting their investments,
promoting goods and services, and safeguarding consumers against
confusion and deception in the marketplace. By disseminating both
patent and trademark information, we promote an understanding of
intellectual property protection and facilitate the developments and
sharing of new technologies world wide.
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