Second Call for Proposals
​(call is closed)

In the first call 2019, only two technology transfer centers were selected to receive ETH Board funds as well as federal funding under Art. 15 RIPA (Federal Act on the Promotion of Research and Innovation).

The successful launch and good progress of these two centers triggered the AM-TTC Alliance and their funding partners, the SERI and the ETH Board, to issue a second call for proposals in 2021. The aim of the second call was to select and establish two or three additional AM-TTC in Switzerland that help to transfer further advanced manufacturing technologies from academia into industrial applications.

​Therefore, partners from academia and industry were invited to jointly discuss the need for additional facilities to transfer advanced manufacturing technologies into industrial applications and to prepare a plan how to set up and operate such facilities for the benefit of the Swiss industry.  
Schedule and Funding Decision
The application process and the deadlines followed the necessity to submit the proposals and the funding requests of the centers as well as the funding recommendations of the AM-TTC Alliance and the Swiss Science Council (SSC) to the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) in the fourth quarter of 2022 to enable the selected centers to start their activities at the end of 2022 or the beginning of 2023.

After a comprehensive evaluation and selection process, the SERI and the AM-TTC Alliance decided to fund two additional AM-TTCs: the Swiss Cobotics Competence Center and the Swiss Photonics Integration Center. The selected centers and consortia have already started their acitivities to establish the new centers.
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The AM-TTC initiative is a measure in the federal action plan for digitalisation in the ERI sector to promote innovation and to speed up knowledge transfer.
The ETH Board supports the establishment of AM-TTC as a strategic initiative and provides funding to launch first technology transfer centers in Switzerland.
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