Venture Kick : CHF 5,000,000 to kick Swiss startups to global markets The philanthropic initiative Venture Kick provides up to CHF 150,000 in seed funding…

European space research & innovation and Euresearch

What is European research and innovation? And why is it relevant to Switzerland? The European Union invests a significant part of its budget in research…

SPIE 2020

This year takes place again the biennial SPIE international conference on Astronomy Telescopes and Instruments. It will be held between June 14th and 19th in Yokohama (Japan),…

Bench2biz workshop: call for application

Are you wondering if your invention/research is commercialisable? Do you need to get a clear picture on how to pursue your business idea? Would you…

EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2019

The EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2019  covers a broad area of science topics related to planetary science and planetary missions. The event falls  from 15 and…

PlanetS and SSC: a joint meeting

On March 20th PlanetS organized a joint meeting in collaboration with the Swiss Space Center in Bern. The joint meeting was aimed at informing the participants…

The most stable source of light

To test the accuracy and stability of the CHEOPS photometer, a light source with a variability of less than the 20 ppm is required for…

Operation on HARPS’ open heart

In 10 years we have learned to improve the performance of optical fibers including giving them an octagonal shape. A team at the Geneva Observatory…

Test chamber for CHEOPS is installed

An outstanding vacuum chamber in a brand new laboratory is now waiting for the space telescope CHEOPS at the Center for Space and Habitability (CSH)…