Swiss-Indian AIT Camp Closes with $50,000 Government Development Grants

The Swiss-Indian Academia-Industry Training Camp, which aims to help scientists from Switzerland and India tranform laboratory research to market-ready products and services, sees ten startups from India and ten from Switzerland enjoy a week of training and networking in each country. The Swiss week combined business development courses and pitching at the Gotham coworking space in Lausanne, with expert workshops and startup visits in Winterthur and Zurich.

 

In order to support such scientrepreneurs from Switzerland and India, the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) has mandated ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences to execute the AIT program. Venturelab and swissnex India are key program partners. They organize and facilitate a full day preparation kick-off event in Switzerland, a week in India followed by a week in Switzerland including workshops, industry visits and business meetings.



Sandal Kotawala of Alfaleus Technology Private Limited and Karan Thanawala of Leotek Innovations, each receive 10 Lakhs rupees (about 14,400 Swiss francs) from Atharva Patankar and Vandana Vyas of SINE.



Alexander Nitsch of OxyPrem, and Nicee Srivastava of Previda, each receive 10,000 francs from Waseem Hussain, Roman Kern and Martin Strickler.