Past events

Friday
24.09.2021
PARTNER EVENT ID 1142

Topping out ceremony at Park Innovaare

Innovationscampus Switzerland Innovation Park Innovaare

Topping-out ceremony Innovation Campus Park Innovaare

On September 24, Park Innovaare will celebrate the topping-out ceremony of the Innovation Campus Park Innovaare together with 200 invited guests from politics, industry, science and economy. Since November 2019, a modern research and innovation building has been under construction vis-à-vis the Swiss Light Source (SLS) of the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI on an area of 38,000 m2, in which high-tech companies, start-ups and two large departments of the Paul Scherrer Institute will move in from the end of 2023: the "Photon Science Division" and the entire AIK department with its prototype workshop. 

The modern and sustainably built innovation building is being constructed by the contractor ERNE AG and has different types of offices: Open plan offices, team offices, shared offices, individual offices and a modern co-working area. Further, Park Innovaare Innovationcampus contains Event Rooms that can be rented also by external companies. 

The laboratories, which are located in both main buildings, are temperature-stable and vibration-free, as is the large clean room hall that connects the two buildings and can be used by all tenants. 

 

 

 

Title
Topping out ceremony at Park Innovaare
Date
2021-09-24
Time
Location
Thursday
25.02.2021
PARK INNOVAARE ID 1102

Funding Webinar

Funding Webinar for High-Tech, High-Risk & High-Potential Start-Ups & SMEs

Our next Funding Webinar is coming up in just a few short weeks. Are you a start-up or SME looking for funding solutions to bring your business idea to the next level? 

Take a moment to register for our event held on 25 February from 13h30 to 14h45 Swiss Time. We will present to you more details about funding options for Swiss-based companies.

Title
Funding Webinar
Date
2021-02-25
Time
13:30-15:00
Location
Online

 

REGISTRATION

Please register on our event platform: www.parkinnovaare.eventbrite.ch

 

PROGRAM

13:30-13:45

Welcome & Introduction to funding opportunities

Francesco Colonna, Park Innovaare

 

13:45-14:00

How to find the right Business Angels

Florian Gautschi, Business Angels Club Aargau
 

14:00-14:15

Nano-Argovia, Forschungsfond Aargau and Feasibility Studies: Funding Options Through Hightech Zentrum Aargau

Leendert den Haan, Innosuisse & HTZ
 

14:15-14:45

Funding instruments of Innosuisse

Leendert den Haan, Innosuisse & HTZ
 

14:45-15:15

European Funding in the years ahead: changes for Switzerland in Horizon Europe and Eureka Eurostar

Javier Calvet-Stoffel, M27

Wednesday
02.12.2020
PARTNER EVENT ID 1084

Funding Webinar - EU Funding Program Options

Funding Webinar : Wednesday 2 December 2020

Is your business plan based on a high-tech and high-risk concept? Does it present high potential? Do you need funding? Then don't miss out!

Title
Funding Webinar - EU Funding Program Options
Date
2020-12-02
Time
13:00 - 14:45
Location
Online

The EUREKA EUROSTARS grant and the European Innovation Council initiatives under the future Horizon Europe program (2021-2027) will be financing Startups, SMEs and Consortia with breakthrough innovations and high-risk/high-potential projects that will disrupt existing markets, with grants between €500.000 and €2,5 million (combined if requested with an additional equity component of up to €15 million).

Webinar Content

The online workshop will not only contain information about non-dilutive funding (overview, requirements, application processes) but also individual 1:1 advisory meetings with experts to evaluate the fit of your project idea with non-dilutive funding sources.

Full program available here.

1:1 Meetings

Following the webinar, if you would like to book a 1:1 meeting, please do so in advance by contacting Dr. Francesco Colonna colonna@parkinnovaare.ch

Questions

If you have any questions concerning registration, program, 1:1 meetings, please also contact Dr. Francesco Colonna colonna@parkinnovaare.ch

Registration

Please register for the event on the eventbrite platform. This is essential to receive the webinar link allowing you to access the webinar.

Tuesday
26.05.2020
PARK INNOVAARE ID 1050

Funding Webinar

Funding Webinar

Is your business plan based on a high-tech and high-risk concept? Does it present high potential? Do you need funding? Then this is for you!

Title
Funding Webinar
Date
2020-05-26
Time
13:00 - 14:30
Location
Online
  • Introduction to funding opportunities (Francesco Colonna, Park Innovaare)
  • Funding instruments of Innosuisse (Leendert den Haan, Innosuisse & HTZ)
  • Funding instruments from HighTech Zentrum Aargau (Leendert den Haan, Innosuisse & HTZ)
  • Find the right Business Angels (Florian Gautschi, Business Angels Club Aargau)
  • Funding opportunities from EU programs for Startups & SMEs (Javier Calvet-Stoffel, M27)

To receive the webinar link, please register online here.

Wednesday
27.11.2019
PARK INNOVAARE ID 1015

Info Event – Funding | Non-dilutive instruments

PARK INNOVAARE Funding

All you need to know about the new "Horizon 2020" Accelerator Program


Since the beginning of 2017, Switzerland has had access to financing instruments through the EU program «Horizon 2020». The new H2020 Accelerator Pilot program launched in October this year is focused on high-risk and high-potential close-to-market projects (TRL 6/7) and allows for combining EU non-dilutive grant (€ 0.5-2.5 Mio ) with a (non-mandatory) equity option up to € 15 Mio. Further, it offers to SMEs a support program which includes mentoring and coaching.

Join our info-event to learn more about the lessons learnt in the first month of this new program and also to explore other funding instruments available in the region.

Meet the experts who will help you evaluate your chances to enter the program and support you with your application. 

Title
Info Event – Funding | Non-dilutive instruments
Date
2019-11-27
Time
12:30 - 16:00
Location
PARK INNOVAARE: deliveryLAB | 5234 Villigen

Event Agenda

12:30 - 12:45 Registration
12:45 - 13:00 Funding support at PARK INNOVAARE | Francesco Colonna, PARK INNOVAARE
13:00 - 13:15 How to find the right Business Angel | Florian Gautschi, Aargau Services
13:15 - 14:15 Horizon 2020 – Accelerator Pilot | Claudia Melchart & Javier Calvet-Stoffel, m27-Inspiralia
14:15 - 14:30 Coffee break
14:30 - 16:00 1-to-1 sessions (upon the registration)


 

Thursday
07.11.2019
PARK INNOVAARE ID 1000

PARK INNOVAARE: GROUNDBREAKING PARTY

New Innovation Tech Campus: PARK INNOVAARE

Celebrating the launch of construction work for the expansion of Switzerland Innovation PARK innovAARE. With standing dinner & Live Jazz Band.

Swiss company CPV/CAP Coop Pension Fund is investing approx. 150 Million Swiss Francs in the expansion of PARK INNOVAARE, one of Switzerland Innovation's five sites nation-wide. Located in close proximity to the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, the new PARK INNOVAARE campus will be built across the street from PSI. Construction management company ERNE AG will carry out the impressive building project, launching this winter.

Title
PARK INNOVAARE: GROUNDBREAKING PARTY
Date
2019-11-07
Time
15:30-16:00
Location
Villigen, Switzerland

The new buildings – complete with approximately 23,000 m2 of high-end offices, co-working spaces, workshop halls, laboratories, clean and vibration-free rooms, among other features – will be ready to welcome high-tech start-ups, SMEs, and big corporations at the end of 2023. The companies will be co-located with PSI, the main leaser.

 

SPEAKERS

Prof. Dr. Martina Hirayama (State Secretary, Switzerland, Department of Economy, Education & Research) 

Dr. Urs Hofmann, Chief Magistrate, Canton Aargau

Dr. Remo Lütolf (President of Board of Directors, innovAARE AG)

Dr. Benno Rechsteiner (CEO, innovAARE AG)

Dr. Thierry Strässle (Director a.i. Paul Scherrer Institut PSI)

Erich Erne (President of Board of Directors, ERNE Holding AG) 

René Probst (Mayor, Villigen)

 

REGISTRATION

By invitation only. For registration information, please send an Email to fest@parkinnovaare.ch

Monday
17.06.2019
PARTNER EVENT ID 962

Novel Accelerators for Electron Diffraction

ED Workshopt at PARK INNOVAARE

Understanding how matter creates life requires observing living cells with atomic detail. One possibility that has received significant attention in recent years is to observe the scattering of electrons on the molecules. Electron Diffraction holds a lot of possibilities for chemistry and pharmaceutical industry. To help the industry unlock them and to evaluate in which areas novel acceleration techniques could bring forward the research in this area, the divisions for biology as well as large research facilities of the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, in collaboration with Advanced Accelerator Technologies, launches a workshop "Novel Accelerators for Electron Diffraction" at PARK INNOVAARE.

Title
Novel Accelerators for Electron Diffraction
Date
2019-06-17
Time
8:00 - 20:00
Location
PARK INNOVAARE: deliveryLAB | 5234 Villigen

For a detailed Agenda of the workshop and registration please click here.

Thursday
06.06.2019
PARK INNOVAARE ID 955

Info Event – Funding | Non-dilutive instruments

PARK INNOVAARE Funding

With a special focus on changes in EU grants: SME Instrument & Accelerator

The question of whether companies will be successful in innovation largely depends on their access to the necessary financial resources. Particularly interesting in this context are those sources that directly benefit the companies and do not result in a dilution of their own company shares (i.e. non-dilutive) and/or show a non-monetary added value which is potentially significant. Such instruments and possibilities do indeed exist, and we would like to introduce them to you.

Title
Info Event – Funding | Non-dilutive instruments
Date
2019-06-06
Time
12:30 - 16:00
Location
PARK INNOVAARE: deliveryLAB | 5234 Villigen

Since the beginning of 2017, Switzerland has had access to two financing instruments through the EU program «Horizon 2020»: the SME Instrument and the FTI. With those instruments up to 3 Mio EUR can be obtained, with or without the participation of academic partners. This year, the EU made some changes to the program allowing for equity co-investment up to 15 Mio EUR. Join us for our info-event to learn more about the changes in the program and other funding instruments available in the region.


Event Agenda

12:30 - 12:45 Registration
12:45 - 13:00 Funding support at PARK INNOVAARE & other non-dilutive instruments | Francesco Colonna, PARK INNOVAARE
13:00 - 13:15 How to find the right Business Angel | Florian Gautschi, Aargau Services
13:15 - 14:15 SME Instrument | Javier Calvet-Stoffel, M27 / Jorge Sotelo, Inspiralia
14:15 - 14:30 Coffee break
14:30 - 16:00 1-to-1 sessions (upon the registration)


Info flyer

 

Thursday
05.07.2018
PARK INNOVAARE ID 552

AI and Robotics: Innovation and R&D in Switzerland

AI and Robotics

Based on the Sino-Swiss innovative strategic partnership, the Ambassador of Switzerland to the PRC, Mr. Jean-Jacques De Dardel and Switzerland Innovation cordially invite you to the Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Event at the Swiss Embassy in Beijing on July 5, 2018.

Title
AI and Robotics: Innovation and R&D in Switzerland
Date
2018-07-05
Time
15:00 - 20:00
Location
Swiss Embassy in Beijing 3 Sanlitun East 5th Street, Chaoyang District, Beijing

The talent pool for artificial intelligence and robotics in Switzerland has piqued the interest of several leading global companies. From cutting edge start-ups to multinationals such as Amazon, Apple, Bosch, Disney, Google, GoPro, Facebook, Huawei, IBM, Magic Leap, Microsoft, Oracle and Samsung, companies are developing autonomous technologies in Switzerland, many of them in collaboration with Swiss universities and institutions. Google, for example, is developing its technology platform called Tango, which enables devices to navigate without the need for GPS.

By attending the AI and Robotics Event on July 5, you are also kindly invited to the Grand Reception of the Swiss Innovation Week on Friday, July 6 at the Swiss Embassy in Beijing. Invitation of the Grand Reception will follow after confirming your participation at the AI and Robotics Event.

The evening ends with a networking session where you will have the opportunity to discuss your interest with other c-level representatives and experts from the AI and robotics industry. This is a unique chance to channel a new collaboration or just to exchange ideas. Come for an illuminating panel discussion and stay for the great networking!

Speakers and Panelists

  • Professor Karl Aberer, EPFL, Distributed Information Systems Laboratory (LSIR), Founder and CEO of EPFL spin-off “LinkAlong”
  • Dr. Daniel Hao Zhuang, Founder, Swiss-Chinese start-up “HuaRui”
  • Dr. Qianjin Liu, Chief Technology Officer, Director-China Corporate Research Center,ABB China Ltd
  • Dr. Li Pu, VP of Robotics, Ninebot Inc
  • Raymond Cron, CEO, Switzerland Innovation
  • Liu Chenchen, Project Officer Science, Technology and Education Section, Swiss Embassy, Moderator

Program Rundown

15:00 – 16:00          Registration
16:00 – 17:00          Presentation Keynote Speakers
17:00 – 17:10          Kick-off ceremony of Sino-Swiss AI conference 2018
17:10 – 18:00          Panel discussion
18:00 – 19:00          Networking

Tuesday
05.12.2017
PARK INNOVAARE ID 551

Drug Discovery made in Switzerland: info event in Shanghai

Drug Discovery made in Switzerland

Based on an innovative strategic partnership agreed between the Chinese President and the President of the Swiss Confederation in 2016, SWITZERLAND INNOVATION cordially invites you to the Drug Discovery Event at the Novartis Campus in Shanghai.

Title
Drug Discovery made in Switzerland: info event in Shanghai
Date
2017-12-05
Time
Location

About the Event:

Drug discovery has come a long way from guess work to a structural and targeted approach to finding new and better remedies. In order to see the big picture and to develop new drugs, companies need to stay up to date about the latest discoveries in genomics, proteomics, structural or quantitative biology. The industry must translate the scientific efforts into a new innovative product.

At SWITZERLAND INNOVATION, such interdisciplinary collaborations between science and industry can flourish, thus finding keys and  pathways to more precise medicine and bring drug discovery into a new era. Together with the Swiss Business Hub China, SWITZERLAND INNOVATION is committed to promote Switzerland as a location for R&D and innovation. International corporations such as Roche, Novartis, and Actelion (J&J), have their home base and global research centers in Switzerland. Other leading biotech and pharmaceutical companies — many of them from the US — including AC Immune, Alnylam, Amgen, Biogen, Bluebird, Fosun, Luye Pharma, Prothena, or Tesaro have chosen Switzerland as an R&D location. Together with Novartis and Roche as the incumbent players, they attract many highly skilled experts from all over the world.

 Program Rundown:
14.00 – 14.30   Registration
14.30 – 15.30   Key note speaches: Prof. Christoph Hock and Prof. Michael Hennig
15.30 – 16.30   Panel Discussion
16.30 – 18.00   Networking

 

Friday
08.09.2017
PARK INNOVAARE ID 550

Excelsus Structural Solutions celebrates its 5th anniversary at PARK INNOVAARE

Excelsus Structural Solutions 5th anniversary

The team of Excelsus Structural Solutions, one of PARK INNOVAARE’s residents, is pleased to invite you to celebrate the company's 5th anniversary to be hosted at deliveryLAB (Villigen, PSI West) on September 8, 2017. The event will bring together company's scientists, early supporters, loyal customers as well as researchers active internationally in industry and academia.

Title
Excelsus Structural Solutions celebrates its 5th anniversary at PARK INNOVAARE
Date
2017-09-08
Time
14:00 - ca. 20:00
Location
PARK INNOVAARE: deliveryLAB

Founded in March 2012 as a spin-off of the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Excelsus Structural Solution has been constantly proving its outstanding expertise in structural analysis of materials. Company’s main office is located in Brussels (Belgium), whereas it operates primarily at the PSI synchrotron facility. For that reason Excelsus Structural Solutions (Swiss) has been founded. In April 2016, Excelsus has joint PARK INNOVAARE located just a stone’s throw away from the Swiss Light Source (SLS).

This year Excelsus celebrates its 5th anniversary. To recapitulate these 5 years and to mark what was achieved, the team invites everyone interested in the company to join the celebration with its most loyal customers and supporters from industry and academia.

The event will be held in English.

Agenda

14:00                   Visit of large research facilities: SLS, SINQ, SwissFEL*

16:00                   Welcome word, Dr. Fabia Gozzo 

16:15                   A few words from the guests of Honour

16:45                   Testimonials from Excelsus pioneer customers

17:15                   Concluding remarks, Dr. Joël Mesot

17:30                   Standing Dinner Party

 

* Optional, prior registration requested.The visit of each facility takes ca. 45 minutes. Groups will be formed based on request.

Accreditation

The event is open to the public and the entrance is free, however registration is mandatory. Please confirm your presence and number of guests by July 31st, 2017 to ESS-5thAnniversary@excels.us.

Speaker (1)

Prof. Giorgio Margaritondo, Professor Emeritus, EPFL and Vice-President, Council of the University of Lugano, Switzerland

Prof. Giorgio Margaritondo, Professor Emeritus, EPFL and Vice-President, Council of the University of Lugano, Switzerland

Tuesday
09.05.2017
PARTNER EVENT ID 549

From the lab to the market

ESI Plattform

Heat and Electricity Storage 5th Symposium of the SCCER & 33rd PSI Electrochemistry Symposium

More and more electricity is being generated by wind and solar. A great step forward towards achieving Energy Strategy 2050 goals. Nevertheless, to transform this vision to reality, a second step, the large-scale energy storage has to be taken and new services and products, associated with new or changed industrial players will find their place in the future. In light of this context, Swiss Competence Center for Energy Research (SCCER) and Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), in partnership with PARK INNOVAARE, invite all the actors to join the 5th heat and energy storage symposium and 33rd PSI Electrochemistry Symposium.

Title
From the lab to the market
Date
2017-05-09
Time
9:30 - 17:00
Location
Paul Scherrer Institute PSI: Auditorium West

The Heat and Energy Storage 5th Symposium of the SCCER covers the topic on energy storage in the context of start-ups and new business cases. We offer six invited talks from speakers with industrial and academic background on the topics of:

At the 33rd PSI Electrochemistry Symposium that will take place next day (May 10), electrochemical based solutions for challenges related to energy storage will be discussed in the context of transferring of innovative ideas to the market. More information on the speakers and program here.

Accreditation

The participation at Heat and Electricity Storage 5th Symposium of the SCCER is free of charge, but the registration is mandatory until May 1, 2017.

The fee for the participation at 33rd PSI Electrochemistry Symposium is CHF 50.00 for students and CHF 100.00 for regular participants. Registration is mandatory till May 1, 2017.

Speaker (1)

Guillaume Jung will present on PARK INNOVAARE's activities for start-ups, SMEs and big companies willing to establish a connection to the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) and to become a part of a fast-growing innovation ecosystem. 

Guillaume Jung, Senior Project Manager Innovation & Funding

Guillaume Jung, Senior Project Manager Innovation & Funding