SERI regularly produces comprehensive reports on behalf of the Swiss Parliament, documenting Swiss participation in EU research and innovation programmes and their impact. The latest reports are available below.
Facts and figures
2023 report
The report published in 2024 contains the most important facts and figures on Switzerland's participation in the:
- Horizon 2020 package for the entire period from 2014 to 2020: This package includes the following EU programmes: the 8th Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (Horizon 2020), the Euratom Research and Training programme and the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor research infrastructure (ITER).
- Horizon Europe package from January 2021 to October 2023: This includes the 9th Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (Horizon Europe), the Euratom programme, ITER and the newly launched Digital Europe Programme (DEP), as well as the respective Swiss transitional measures for these programmes and initiatives.
Infografics
2018 report
Updated extract: Facts and Figures on the Swiss Participation in the eighth European Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (PDF, 376 kB, 15.03.2022)Last update: 30.08.2022
Impact of the Swiss participation in the EU Framework Programmes for Research and Innovation
2019 report
The report published in 2019 examines the impact of Swiss participation in the 6th and 7th EU research and innovation framework programmes, as well as the first three years of the 8th EU Framework Programme. The impact is evaluated across the following five key areas: research funding, economy and employment, scientific cooperation networks, knowledge and skills production, society.
The Impact of Switzerland’s Participation in the EU Framework Programmes (PDF, 15 MB, 18.12.2019)2019 report
Other publications
Impact of Swiss participation in individual projects
As a non-associated country, Switzerland had no access to Horizon Europe funding instruments for individual researchers and innovators during the 2021–2024 period. This SERI-commissioned report therefore examines the fundamental impact that Swiss participation in individual funding instruments of EU framework programmes has on researchers and innovators in Switzerland. The following effects are highlighted: intensified competition, reputational effect, networking effect, leverage effect and brain gain effect. This report was published as part of the overall dispatch on Swiss-EU relations.
Impact of termination of Bilateral I agreements
A SECO-commissioned study conducted by Ecoplan in 2025 analyses the long-term impact that termination of Swiss-EU Bilateral Agreements I would have on Swiss GDP. The study confirms the considerable benefits that Switzerland derives from these agreements. It also estimates how Switzerland's non-association to the Horizon package would affect the appeal of Swiss research and innovation. This report was published as part of the overall dispatch on Swiss-EU relations.
Economic policy papers (SECO)
Further information
Archive
Swiss Participation in European Research Framework Programmes – Facts and Figures 2018 (PDF, 1 MB, 29.01.2024)Facts and Figures 2018
Updated extract: Facts and Figures on the Swiss Participation in the eighth European Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (PDF, 376 kB, 15.03.2022)Last update: 30.08.2022
Swiss Participation in European Research Framework Programmes (PDF, 2 MB, 21.01.2016)Facts and figures 2015
Impact of Swiss Participation in the Seventh European Framework Programme for Research (PDF, 9 MB, 07.08.2014)Report 2014, SERI
Switzerland's Participation in the 6th EU Framework Programme (PDF, 1 MB, 18.12.2012)Facts and Figures 2008, SERI