Contract conclusion and project start

Eligible costs include:

• effective personnel costs up to the following maxima of the gross salary;
  o Project coordinator and his/her deputy; experienced researcher: Maximum of CHF 220,500 gross per year or CHF 119 per hour;
  o Research assistant, scientific collaborator: CHF 126,000 gross per year or CHF 68 francs per hour;
  o Technician, programmemr: CHF 113,400 Swiss francs per year gross or CHF 61 per hour;
  o PhD student and assistant: CHF 85,100 gross per year or CHF 46 per hour.
• Depreciation costs of equipment and installations.
• Consumables
  
• Travel expenses abroad
• Subcontracts to third parties are eligible if they are not placed between the project partners
• Overhead costs of 15% on all eligible costs. 

Each Swiss partner must carry a part of their project financing through their in-kind contribution. Companies must demonstrate their capacity to provide their own contributions by means of an audit report, a confirmed investment or by providing evidence of other sources of funding. Universities and research institutions may claim their own contributions in the form of resources covered by basic funding. In-kind contributions may include all eligible costs.

A small and medium-sized organisation (up to 250 full-time equivalents) can apply for support from an innovation mentor at Innosuisse.

The basis for issuing the funding agreement is the listing of all project costs in a financial plan. This budget is more detailed than the cost summary in your application and sets out the eligible costs of the Swiss partners in a binding way. It serves as a reference for the settlement of accrued project costs.

The financial plan will be negotiated between the Swiss project partners and Innosuisse until all open questions have been clarified and the financing by Innosuisse, the EU and the partners themselves has been agreed. Based on the agreed financial plan, Innosuisse will issue the funding agreement. The funding agreement will only come into force when signed by all parties and is a prerequisite for the payment of the funding contributions.

Innosuisse will conduct a first partial payment of the funding amount in the form of an advance payment as soon as the consortium agreement and the funding agreement have been signed by all project partners. Your project can start at the earliest from the start date agreed in the consortium agreement and only after all parties have signed.

The project costs will be counted as eligible costs from the start date agreed in the consortium agreement, even if no signed funding agreement has yet been received.