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CSEM is a Swiss technology innovation center developing advanced technologies with a high societal impact, which it then transfers to industry to strengthen the economy. The non-profit orientated, public-private organization is internationally recognized.

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CSEM @csem.ch · 24/09/2026
⚙️ One engineering challenge can hold back a deep-tech start-up. CSEM’s new Start-up Elevate Program will support 5 selected companies with up to CHF 50,000 in engineering expertise to tackle one critical milestone. Applications close Nov 30. 👉 bit.ly/47257aN
Start-up Elevate Program inspirational picture ©CSEM - Guillaume Perret
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CSEM @csem.ch · 18/09/2026
☀️ Solar is moving beyond rooftops. In a new @natcomms.nature.com Energy Correspondence, @csem.ch’s Antonin Faes & European partners explore how integrated PV can bring energy generation into products, vehicles & buildings—where design matters too. #IntegratedPV 🔗 bit.ly/3UYVHKC
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CSEM @csem.ch · 09/09/2026
@hslu-luzern.bsky.social (Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts) and @csem.ch launch a joint professorship in Collective Human Robot Intelligence, strengthening their partnership in AI and Robotics. ➡️ Read the press release lnkd.in/edPkPJUB ➡️ View the job description lnkd.in/e8crWa2n
Text announcing the joint professorship in Collective Human Robot Intelligence. The background displays a team of humans and robotoids working together.
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CSEM @csem.ch · 03/09/2026
What if industrial sensors could analyse data on the spot? CSEM and Miromico’s compact wireless node combines ultra-low-power AI with modular radio technology for long-term, battery-powered monitoring. www.csem.ch/en/press/cse...
CSEM's expert Daniel Besse presents the collaboration with Miromico.
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CSEM @csem.ch · 02/09/2026
Every injection counts. Socorex and @csem.ch teamed up to develop a smart vaccination system for real farm conditions, delivering precise doses and automatically recording each injection to reduce waste, simplify traceability, and support animal welfare and food security. 💉🐄 bit.ly/4x6a2lU
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CSEM @csem.ch · 27/08/2026
👁️ For people with photophobia, light can be overwhelming. Azalea Vision and @csem.ch are advancing a biocompatible smart contact lens that helps manage incoming light, powered by ultra-thin flexible electronics inside the soft lens. Read: bit.ly/4vJL63M
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CSEM @csem.ch · 25/08/2026
💊 Solubility testing in early drug discovery can take days and consume scarce sample material. ORYL Photonics, @csem.ch, EPFL & @fhnw.ch co-developed a light-scattering instrument that reads a 384-well plate in ~15 minutes using far less material. Faster, leaner R&D: bit.ly/4xVrkU7
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CSEM @csem.ch · 24/08/2026
What if the women’s health gap starts with what we measure? In Part 1, @csem.ch experts Samantha Paoletti and Alia Lemkaddem explain why hormonal variation isn’t noise - it’s information & how bioconvergence can help turn it into better evidence for healthcare. 🔗 bit.ly/4wGdFP3
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CSEM @csem.ch · 14/07/2026
The same air can warn your sinuses and your crops 🌾 @csem.ch and Swisens AG are using multimodal AI to classify pollen and fungal spores in real time—helping improve allergy forecasts and giving agriculture more precise signals for action. Read: bit.ly/4fbbMV2
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CSEM @csem.ch · 09/07/2026
🪐 Some planets are found in a wobble of light. For NIRPS at ESO’s La Silla Observatory, @csem.ch has co-created with for UNIGE a laser frequency comb: thousands of stable markers to help astronomers in the future measure tiny shifts in starlight. Read: bit.ly/3QxUZSN
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CSEM @csem.ch · 07/07/2026
A village does not decarbonize like a city. In Grandvaux, ANERGYCAD co-designed with @csem.ch + partners will use a low-temperature anergy loop under the roads so buildings can tap local heat and upgrade it with heat pumps. Smaller infrastructure. Lower-carbon heating. Read: bit.ly/4ged5ng
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CSEM @csem.ch · 03/07/2026
9,521 m, powered by sun and batteries ☀️ Raphaël Domjan and SolarStratos pushed solar-electric flight higher. @csem.ch helped with the ultra-light solar modules and battery expertise behind the aircraft. Not science fiction. Swiss engineering in thin air. Read: bit.ly/4oVaxfO
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CSEM @csem.ch · 02/07/2026
Proud to see CCRAFT, a spin-off from @csem.ch, raise USD 7.8m (CHF 6.3m) to scale Thin Film Lithium Niobate (TFLN) photonic chip manufacturing in Switzerland. A strong signal that Swiss deep-tech research can become industrial capacity in a strategic global market. Read more: bit.ly/4vbONy6
Hamed Sattari, Andreas Voelker, Hernán Furci who are professionally dressed stand on an indoor stairwell landing, leaning on metal railings and facing the camera in a modern building with bright white walls and industrial details.
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CSEM @csem.ch · 01/07/2026
The invisible work behind reliable electronics: fewer surprises. With Micro Precision Systems MPS, @CSEM.ch helped test failure risks, qualify materials and suppliers, and shape quality controls before scale-up. Reliability is built early, not inspected in at the end. Read: bit.ly/4vH8Sxc
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CSEM @csem.ch · 26/06/2026
A kids’ game that doesn’t fight screens with another screen 🕹️ Spin & Play developed by swip SA with @csem.ch + partners turns movement into the interface: jump, dodge, react. No cameras. No wearables. Just smart engineering for active play, now in Decathlon Switzerland. Story: bit.ly/3QGmXvC
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CSEM @csem.ch · 22/06/2026
🎬 Movie-trailer energy, real-world tech. @csem.ch's Annual Report is out: faster medicines, trusted chips, solar skies, airborne AI, exoplanet hunting—and more stories of research moving into the world. Watch/read: bit.ly/4uNmOEw #DeepTech #SwissInnovation
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CSEM @csem.ch · 17/06/2026
Critical minerals are becoming a key pressure point in the energy transition. Proud to see @csem.ch ’s Bertrand Paviet-Salomon recognised by EQT Foundation for work on resource-light PV technologies, helping solar scale with fewer material bottlenecks: bit.ly/3Qano14
Close-up of a solar cell with copper metallization, showing fine conductive grid lines. Copper can help reduce reliance on constrained materials such as silver in photovoltaic manufacturing.
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CSEM @csem.ch · 16/06/2026
@csem.ch spin-off Actival has won the Medtech & Healthcare category at >>venture>>startup competition 2026 🏆A proud moment for Swiss deep-tech and for the startup ecosystem helping lab-born oral health innovation reach patients: bit.ly/43HbJKa
On stage at the >>venture>> Awards 2026, Actival is announced as the winner of the Medtech & Healthcare category. A presenter hands the award trophy to the Actival team while their logo appears on the large screenTwo people stand in front of >>venture>> event signage, smiling and holding an award trophy. The image celebrates Actival as the winner of the >>venture>> startup competition’s MedTech vertical. >>venture>> is a Swiss startup competition that awards vertical winners CHF 50,000.
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CSEM @csem.ch · 09/06/2026
New materials matter when they become reliable space hardware. A €1M @csem.ch-led project will 3D-print new alloys into metal engine parts that run hotter, last longer & carry more load. With @empa-materials.bsky.social, Pave Space SA & @esa.int Phi-Lab Switzerland: bit.ly/4xcNOzE
Promotional graphic for HERMES, featuring translucent blue 3D rocket-material components on a cyan technical grid background. Large cream text reads “HERMES,” with the tagline “Printing the future of rocket materials.” Partner logos along the bottom include Empa, ESA Phi-Lab NET, Switzerland, pave, and CSEM.
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CSEM @csem.ch · 02/06/2026
Explore the science behind tomorrow’s technologies! @csem.ch’s 2025 Scientific & Technical Report brings together applied research in digitalization, precision manufacturing and sustainable energy — and the partners making it real. Read, explore, connect: bit.ly/4odp2eZ
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CSEM @csem.ch · 28/05/2026
One industrial problem can be the start of a bigger digital shift. @csem.ch's Digital Journey 2026 helps Swiss SMEs turn a concrete idea into a real project with CSEM experts — with up to CHF 100k in technical support or transfer hours: Apply by Sept 14: bit.ly/4o40Z1N
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CSEM @csem.ch · 22/05/2026
Image: © MOMM Diagnostics - A close up of préXclude. The setup is used for rapid point-of-care analysis from small blood samples.
Close-up of a rapid diagnostic testing setup on a white laboratory table, including a pipette, reagent bottles, disposable microfluidic test cartridges, and a compact electronic reader device with a small display screen. The setup is used for rapid point-of-care analysis from small blood samples.
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CSEM @csem.ch · 13/05/2026
@csem.ch spin-off CCRAFT was proud to stand among the finalists of the ZKB Pionierpreis Technopark 2026, one of Switzerland’s leading deep-tech entrepreneurship awards. While not taking home the main prize, the team won the Audience Award 🏆: bit.ly/4nlLQsc
A speaker from CCRAFT presents on stage at the ZKB Pionierpreis Technopark event in Zürich. Behind him, large screens display the CCRAFT logo and slides highlighting energy-efficient photonic technology, including “10x less power” and “Made in Switzerland.”The CCRAFT team stands on stage holding the Audience Award prize cheque at the ZKB Pionierpreis Technopark 2026 ceremony, surrounded by organizers and attendees in a packed auditorium.The CCRAFT team poses together at their event booth after the ceremony, smiling and raising glasses in celebration beneath ZKB Pionierpreis Technopark branding and a large CCRAFT display.
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CSEM @csem.ch · 30/04/2026
We can’t reduce what we can’t measure. ⚠️🌊 @csem.ch ’s #microplastic detector, from the EU-funded H2020 Nautilos project (ec.europa.eu), is now in the EU Mission Ocean & Waters Solutions Library. Tiny particles, better data, smarter action. Will you take the tech forward? info@csem.ch: bit.ly/49mcdZh
Close-up of CSEM’s microplastic detector system: a compact metal-and-glass scientific instrument designed to identify and count microplastic particles in water one particle at a time. Text on image reads: “Counting microplastics one particle at a time.”
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CSEM @csem.ch · 15/04/2026
@csem.ch is now part of Morphotonics’s Global Lab-to-Fab Partner Network—helping move nanoimprint lithography closer to scalable industrial use in photonics and advanced manufacturing. Discover what we can do: bit.ly/4vuNPht More about the network: bit.ly/4cGz8k9 #Photonics #AdvancedManufacturing
An upscaled AR waveguide co-developed be CSEM & Morphontics
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CSEM @csem.ch · 14/04/2026
Quantum matters when it meets a real need. In QuardiOPM, @csem.ch contributes its physics package and microfabricated alkali vapor cells to a compact magnetocardiography project supported by Innosuisse (Innovation Project 121.247 IP-LS). Discover more quantum tech: bit.ly/4sBSxHV #WorldQuantumDay
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CSEM @csem.ch · 09/04/2026
An implantable optical sensor that can detect nitric oxide, a molecule linked to inflammation, directly inside the joint in real time and wirelessly.A team of people smiling
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CSEM @csem.ch · 30/03/2026
"Think a driver is fine because they’re not yawning? Think again. DriverCheck by CSEM spots subtle physiological warning signs with contactless, privacy-first AI. See how it works: bit.ly/47lUtfQ #RoadSafety #EdgeAI"
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CSEM @csem.ch · 26/03/2026
Three co-developed @csem.ch innovations just earned three signals on @ec.europa.eu’s Innovation Radar: Business Ready, Tech Ready, and Exploring. More than a badge, that shows where innovation stands now and where collaboration can create value next. The three pages are in the thread below. Read on.
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CSEM @csem.ch · 18/03/2026
30.02% certified efficiency for a perovskite-based triple-junction solar cell, reported in @natureportfolio.nature.com That sets a new benchmark for this device class. @csem.ch contributed expertise in device engineering, silicon integration, optical management and characterization: bit.ly/4cZCsaR
Person holding a record efficiency for perovskite-silicon triple-junction solar cell.
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CSEM @csem.ch · 19/02/2026
CSEM's CEO and several other important figures cut a blue ribbon to signify the opening of CSEM's new Schwyz site.
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CSEM @csem.ch · 04/02/2026
On #WorldCancerDay, we’re proud to show how tech + cross-sector collaboration at CSEM is reshaping cancer care — more precision, better outcomes, real hope. From surgery to prediction, our partners across CH & Europe make the impact possible. Discover more stories: www.csem.ch #CancerInnovation
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CSEM @csem.ch · 03/02/2026
If #AI is everywhere, trust has to be everywhere too. Through the EPoSS & INSIDE Edge AI Working Group, @csem.ch 's Philippe Dallemagne argues #trust is the real adoption barrier. Do you agree — or are performance and cost still bigger blockers? Discover more: bit.ly/45HWPor
An outstretched AI hand to symbolize trust.
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CSEM @csem.ch · 30/01/2026
🏭 The #AI race isn’t about models. It’s about production. AI winners will be those who can industrialize it. Europe is entering Phase 2—scaling AI in the real world, building on strengths like manufacturing and reliability. What’s the biggest barrier between AI pilots and full-scale deployment?
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CSEM @csem.ch · 19/12/2025
✨ As the year wraps up, we’re celebrating everything we achieved together. Your trust and shared purpose turned ideas into real momentum. Wishing you a joyful break filled with rest, renewal, and inspiration. We’ll be back in 2026, ready to keep collaborating & innovating side by side! 🎉
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CSEM @csem.ch · 11/12/2025
2025 marked a turning point for #TechBio, where technology meets biology, when concepts finally began to take shape in the real world. 𝐖𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐁𝐢𝐨 𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧? 👉Discover the technologies that matter on our blog lnkd.in/ePQy4kin 👇Watch and listen to our experts right now youtu.be/d69VSutDeVQ 👇
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CSEM @csem.ch · 24/11/2025
CSEM joins RECHARGE & BEPA in the #BatteryDealforEU, driving the INNOVATE pillar with cutting-edge battery research, advanced infrastructure and strong industry collaboration. Join the pledge 👉 bit.ly/49y2yzX #CSEM #CSEMBatteryInnovationHub
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CSEM @csem.ch · 24/11/2025
🌌 Could life exist elsewhere in our solar system? @csem.ch and @ethz.ch | Space have been selected by @esa.int for SpaceChip, a 1-year pilot to explore lab-on-a-chip tech that could support future missions that search for potential biosignatures beyond Earth. #SpaceTech #DeepTech
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CSEM @csem.ch · 30/10/2025
Strong enough for space. Gentle enough for the human body. Polyimide is transforming how we design medical and wearable devices. CSEM’s Patrick Surbled reveals how this material is powering the future of healthcare. 🔗 Read more: bit.ly/4qt1mnr
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CSEM @csem.ch · 14/10/2025
How do we know if electronics are really sustainable? ♻️ LCA (Lifecycle Analysis) tracks impacts across a product’s life. What would you look for in a truly sustainable device 👉 bit.ly/3KhL00p #CircularElectronics
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CSEM @csem.ch · 08/10/2025
Still exploring insights from @CSEM.ch on sustainable electronics 👉 bit.ly/3KhL00p One takeaway from our whitepaper: we can screen print electronics like T-shirts — scalable, efficient & less wasteful. More in thread 👇 #SustainableElectronics
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CSEM @csem.ch · 07/10/2025
Invitation to the CSEM Roadshow in the canton of Schwyz Tuesday, November 11, Küssnacht, 4:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, November 12, Einsiedeln, 4:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, November 26, Pfäffikon SZ, 4:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. Register on schwyz-next.ch/events/
CSEM Expert Francesco Crivelli watches the robotic arm of a new machine.
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CSEM @csem.ch · 29/09/2025
A pile of electronic components.
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CSEM @csem.ch · 25/09/2025
🌍 In 2022, the world generated 62 million tonnes (Mt) of #e-waste. Less than a quarter was properly recycled. As the volume of consumer electronics grows, so does the challenge. Can electronics power the world and protect it?Our research explores how. Coming soon! #SustainableElectronics #CleanTech
A green recycle bin full of electronic devices.
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CSEM @csem.ch · 23/09/2025
Tonio Buonassisi stands to the left of Christoph Baliff - both are smiling
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CSEM @csem.ch · 29/08/2025
Can AI prevent disease before it starts? 🧬💡 AI is shifting healthcare from treatment to true prevention, unlocking hidden patterns in data to predict illness earlier. Read how 👉 bit.ly/4oTSd6v
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CSEM @csem.ch · 22/08/2025
PFAS are everywhere even in the chips powering our devices. At CSEM, we’re tackling this global challenge with smarter sensors & greener semiconductor processes. Discover how science is shaping a PFAS-free future: bit.ly/4oHKnNr
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CSEM @csem.ch · 15/08/2025
🌞 Congrats to Raphaël Domjan & SolarStratos for reaching 9,521 m! ✈️ Proud that CSEM designed, built & installed the ultra-light solar panels powering this record flight - innovation & teamwork taking solar aviation to new heights!
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CSEM @csem.ch · 15/08/2025
🎨 At csem.ch, the Marketing & Communications team brings together creative minds, strategic thinking, and a whole lot of energy to keep the message moving, and evolving. #WhatWeLove #LifeAtCSEM #SummerVibes
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CSEM @csem.ch · 12/08/2025
🧬 Go behind the scenes with the #MedTech team at @csem.ch, where calm coordination, mutual support, and a shared drive to make a difference keep everything moving forward, together. #WhatWeLove #LifeAtCSEM #SummerVibes
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