Program

Be part of the 10 Swiss "Scientrepreneurs" who will challenge their startup project on the Indian market. Join a 2-week entrepreneurship program with a camp in India and another in Switzerland. Learn more on how to do business in India, and how to expand your business in Switzerland.

2 grants of CHF 10'000.- each will be given during the Swiss Camp in February to the best pitches!

Admission process

Registration deadline: August 23rd, 2023

Register your project and apply for one of 10 seats in the one-week intensive Academia-Industry Training program in India and in Switzerland.

Jury presentation: September 11th, 2023 (Online)

Personal presentation by the best 15-20 applicants in front of the jury.

Trip to India: November 27th - December 1st 2023

The program for the Academia-Industry Training Camp 2023-2024 will follow.

AIT Camp in Switzerland: February 12th-16th 2024

The program for the Academia-Industry Training Camp 2023-2024 will follow.

Learn more about the program in previous years, and discover most promising Swiss and Indian startups here. You can also find below some participants' testimonies of 2022's edition:

"It was great to spend a combined two weeks with other entrepreneurs and learn from their impressive accomplishments but also from their mistakes." - Olivier Stähli, Co-Founder of Synature

"The AIT camp gave us the chance to explore early-on the opportunities offered by the Indian market and helped us refine and adapt our business case. Through the AIT we were put in contact with relevant stakeholders in India, often with highly ranked executives of multinational companies - something normally inaccessible to small, earlystage start-ups." - Anna Krammer, Co-Founder of Solaxer

"Great program for your entrepreneurs to widen the spectrum and to expand the tool kit of a your firm. Highly recommended!"- Leonie Isler, Head of communication at Oxara

"It was a great program to learn from live examples of different startups going through the same process and handling situations differently. Sitting at your home country, every dream seems unreasonable but programs like these help in converting them to reality." - Prachi Kharb, COO of Life and Limb

"The AIT India program is way more than a gateway to the Indian market. Through direct exposure to experts, potential partners & clients, investors and pitching audience at a global level, it is a direct pull to improve our business plan, our networking skills and to believe that we can really grow world-class startups." - Martakis Panagiotis, Founder & CEO of i rmos technologies

About the Swiss-Indian Academia-Industry Training Camp To support promising entrepreneurs from Switzerland, the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) has mandated the Leading House South Asia and Iran at ZHAW to execute the AIT program. Venturelab and Swissnex in India are key program partners.