Project reporting

Reports during your project
Requesting changes to your innovation project
Questions and answers on the subject

As a project partner, you must submit reports during your innovation project. These serve to check the course of the project. You must also request any important changes to the project.

NOTE: Please send all your reports and adjustment requests by e-mail to innoprojects@innosuisse.ch.

Reports during your project

The letter of approval of your application and the subsidy contract will specify the number of reports and their deadlines for
your innovation project:

A report is due 10 days after reaching your project milestone. The conditions may also allow for several milestone reports.
If the project approval includes a go/no-go decision, you must submit a preliminary report to Innosuisse one month before the planned review.
An interim financial report need only be submitted at the express request of Innosuisse.

Report template

Requesting changes to your innovation project

You must request all important changes to your innovation project to Innosuisse. This applies particularly to changes in terms of hours, personnel function or key personnel, as well as applications for redistribution of the contribution to the project or additional project funds.

If you do not complete your innovation project within the anticipated time frame according to the project plan, you can apply for an extension ahead of time without increasing the budget.

Forms for project changes

Questions and answers on the subject

Project reporting and requesting changes to your innovation project

Can budget reallocations be made between personnel costs and material costs?

Yes, project contributions can be reallocated between personnel costs and material costs. For this purpose, a corresponding application must be submitted (Minor Changes form (XLS, 79 kB, 22.02.2021)). The application must be submitted during the course of the project.

Can a budget increase be applied for?

In exceptional cases, additional costs beyond the estimated contribution laid down in the funding agreement may be approved in the context of a supplementary application if they are incurred as a result of approved changes to the project or were unforeseeable and not the responsibility of the project partners. The funding agreement is amended accordingly (Art. 11 of the Implementing Provisions Innovation Projects). The application form (XLS, 83 kB, 17.06.2021) must be completed and sent to Innosuisse: innoprojects@innosuisse.ch.

Personnel costs may be increased up to the cost ceiling without the need to amend the funding agreement in certain circumstances (for possible reasons, see in the section "Budget and costs of the research partner" the answer to the question “What is the significance of the project budget (target costs), the cost ceiling and the effective costs?”).

Does an interim financial report have to be submitted?

Financial interim reports currently only have to be submitted if expressly requested by Innosuisse. This regulation also applies to those projects for which the funding agreement requires a financial interim report.