Alliance Association

The Alliance Association promotes collaboration between companies and universities. Enjoy privileged access to our activities, take part in events specially designed for our members, and receive personalized support and follow-up over the long term.

 

Take advantage of personalized support from our innovation mentors team.

A network of companies at the heart of innovation.

Join us to meet your innovation challenges with confidence.

Personalized follow-up over time

The Alliance association supports its members in their innovation challenges. You benefit from privileged access to our activities, as well as personalized contact with a specialized technology advisor.

Your advisor can help you with your innovation projects. Whether you want to set up an Innosuisse project, a direct mandate, a student project, or any other type of project, Alliance is your partner. We listen to your needs, advise you, help you find the right partners, put together your project file and obtain funding for your project.

Meet the Alliance team

Workshops Alliance brainstorming sessions

The Alliance Association is launching Les Brainstormings d'Alliance, a series of events designed to encourage reflection between peers and academic institutions on cross-functional issues affecting technology, innovation and industrialization. Our events are free for association members.

During Alliance Brainstormings, a member company is invited to bring its problem to the workshop. The workshop closes with two presentations by guests chosen with you: a person from the academic field and a company working on the issue in question.

Would you like to submit a problem or take part in a brainstorming session?

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Student projects

The Alliance association helps its members set up student projects. These projects are Bachelor's or Master's degree projects. Under the supervision of a professor in charge of the project, the student works on solving a concrete problem of the company involved, and must provide substantiated answers to a research question related to this theme.

The company provides the student with human, documentary and technical resources for the successful completion of his/her work and will receive the student∙e's results in return. Each collaborative project is subject to a contract between the company, the Haute école and the student∙e.

These projects can be proposed by companies to universities once a year (twice a year for EPFL). An Alliance advisor will guide you towards a collaboration with a university, helping you to draw up your proposal and put you in touch with an interested professor.

Would you like to propose a student project?

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A network of companies at the heart of innovation

Being a member of the Alliance association means being part of a network of companies at the heart of innovation in French-speaking Switzerland. Network at events, discover the companies in the economic fabric of the French-speaking part of the country, and build a high-quality network with other member companies and partner universities.

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How can I become a member?

Join the Alliance association to benefit from numerous advantages by filling in the form on the page Become a member

Your benefits

Our news

Les Brainstormings d'Alliance | When the law bans materials, what are the alternatives and solutions?

The Association Alliance is pleased to invite you to the next Brainstormig, on September 19, 2024 from 4 to 6 pm at EPFL.

De-risk Innovation: Understanding Freedom to Operate (FTO)

KNOVA and Alliance Association are delighted to invite you to a joint workshop on "De-risk Innovation: Understanding Freedom to Operate (FTO)" with Emmanuel Jelsch from AWA.

A look back at the AGM of the Alliance Association and the "AI in Action" conference

Last Tuesday we had the pleasure of welcoming Dr Emmanuel De Salis from HE-Arc for a talk on "AI in action: strategies and applications for businesses".

AI in action: strategies and applications for businesses

The Alliance Association's General Meeting on Tuesday May 28, 2024 at 4:30pm will be followed by the event: AI in action: strategies and applications for businesses.

Video review of Alliance's latest Brainstorming session

Alliance Brainstormings are peer-to-peer and academic think-tank events on cross-functional themes.

Les Brainstormings d'Alliance | Diversifier son modèle d'affaires

The Alliance association is pleased to invite you to the next Brainstorming, on Tuesday March 12 from 4 to 6 pm at EPFL building BC 410.

Socorex wins CSEM's Digital Journey Award 2023

Socorex, a member of the Alliance association, has been awarded CSEM's prestigious Digital Journey Award 2023.

Les Brainstormings d'Alliance | Predictive maintenance: from data to AI

The Association Alliance is pleased to invite you to the next Brainstorming, on Thursday September 28 from 4 to 6 p.m. at the EPFL Innovation Park.For this new edition, the reflection will focus on an issue brought by Liebherr SA, Predictive Maintenance: from data to AI. The workshop will be followed by two presentations, the first by Professor Jean Hennebert of iCoSys (HEIA-FR) and member of the Swiss Center for Artificial Intelligence for SMEs, and the second by Xavier Bays of Swiss-SDI.

Les Brainstormings d'Alliance | Quality control automation - challenges & solutions

The Alliance Association is launching Les Brainstormings d'Alliance, a series of events designed to encourage reflection between peers and academic institutions on cross-cutting issues affecting technology, innovation and industrialization. The first Brainstorming will focus on an issue raised by Medtronic SA: the automation of final product aesthetic quality control, followed by presentations by Vahid Fakhfouri and Laurent Brulport from qmt, and Professor Yuri Lopez de Meneses from HE-Arc's Metrology and Machine Vision Laboratory.

The committee

 Georges-Antoine Garret

Georges-Antoine Garret

Chairman - Takama Sàrl, Lausanne

 Harald Jenny

Harald Jenny

Centredoc, Neuchâtel

Antoine Jourdan

Antoine Jourdan

Director, Alliance

Ulrike Kettenberger

Ulrike Kettenberger

Flowbone SA, Lausanne

Olivier Kuffer

Olivier Kuffer

Rolex SA, Geneva

 Martha Liley

Martha Liley

HEIG-VD Ra&D Centre, Yverdon

 Véronique Michaud

Véronique Michaud

EPFL-STI-LPAC, Lausanne

 Hugues-Vincent Roy

Hugues-Vincent Roy

AISA Automation industrielle SA, Vouvry

List of Alliance members

Supporting members

Haleon Sàrl, Nyon
Loterie Romande, Lausanne
RichemontInternational SA, Bellevue GE
Rolex SA, Geneva

Academic support members

EPFL - Vice Presidency for Innovation (VPI), Lausanne
HEIG-VD Centre Ra&D, Yverdon-les-Bains

Institutional members

CVCI - Chambre vaudoise du commerce et de l'industrie, Lausanne
Fédération vaudoise des entrepreneurs, Tolochenaz
FSRM - Fondation suisse pour la recherche en microtechnique, Neuchâtel
OPI - Office de promotion des industries et des technologies, Geneva
SMP - Société suisse de management de projets, Geneva
Ville de Lausanne, Lausanne

Start-up members

ArcoScreen SA, Lausanne
Artiria Medical SA, Borex VD
Ascentys Sàrl, Courroux JU
Beyond Scroll SA, Lausanne
Certify Community SA, Geneva
CléozosSàrl, Geneva
Composite Recycling Sàrl, Écublens
Docetis Sàrl, Fribourg
Flowbone SA, Renens
Global ID SA, Lausanne

 

GreenUp Technology, Ecublens
IKAARASA, Gland
IsochronicSA, Denges
Koln3D Switzerland Sàrl, Neuchâtel
Limula SA, La Tour-de-Peilz
Minatyx AG, Basel
MPC Therapeutics SA, Geneva
NagiBiosciences SA, St-Sulpice VD
Neology Sàrl, Lutry
Neur.on AI Solutions SA, Fribourg

 

NovaMea SA, St-Sulpice VD
ProSeed Ingredients SA, Sion
Rea Diagnostics SA, Lausanne
Readily3D SA, Lausanne
Takama Sàrl, St-Prex
TOSASwisstech Sàrl, Courroux JU
TuneInsight SA, Lausanne
Vizar Technologies Sàrl, Lausanne
Voltiris SA, Lausanne
XanaStimSàrl, Pully

Ordinary members

AISA - Automation industrielle SA, Vouvry
AresTrading SA, Merck Group, Aubonne
Bracco Suisse SA, Plan-Les-Ouates
Centredoc, Neuchâtel
Comelec SA, La Chaux-de-Fonds
Contexa SA, Aïre
CortexiaSA, Châtel-St-Denis FR
Debiotech SA, Lausanne
DynatecSA, Préverenges
Elca Informatique SA, Lausanne
ETASA, Grenchen
Federnfabrik Schmid AG, Oetwil am See
Firmenich SA, Genève
FKGDentaire SA, La Chaux-de-Fonds
Forestero SA, Lutry
G&FChâtelain SA, branch of CHANEL Sàrl, La Chaux-de-Fonds
Green GT SA, Aclens
HeraeusMaterials SA, Yverdon-les-Bains
Hublot SA, Nyon

 

Hybrid SA, Chez-le-Bart
IEMSA, Plan-les-Ouates
Infrascreen SA, Neuchâtel
Interdigit SA, Nyon
Koenig& Bauer Banknote Solutions SA, Lausanne
La Pierrette SA, Le Brassus
LauraStar SA, Châtel-St-Denis
LemsysSA, Plan-les-Ouates
MailleferSA, Ecublens
MailleferInstruments Holding Sàrl, Ballaigues
Medtronic Europe Sàrl, Tolochenaz
Membratec SA, Sierre
Metallo-Tests SA, La Chaux-de-Fonds
NGLCleaning Technology SA, Nyon
Officine Panerai, Neuchâtel
OFISA - Société fiduciaire, Lausanne
PBMC SA, Les Brenets
Perrot Duval Holding SA, Genève
Plumettaz SA, Bex
Produits dentaires SA, Vevey

 

QMT Suisse SA, Plan-les-Ouates
Regen Lab SA, Mont-sur-Lausanne
Remora Biotech SA, Lausanne
Robert Renaud SA, Bouvry
Safran Colibrys SA, Yverdon-les-Bains
Saint-Gobain Isover SA, Lucens
SapalSA, Ecublens
Sécheron SA, Meyrin
SEED Biosciences SA, Epalinges
SICTSA Swiss Industrial Consulting & Technology, Lussy-sur-Morges
Socorex ISBA SA, Ecublens
Speno International SA, Geneva
STSIndustrie SA, Yvonand
Thermo Fisher Scientific Sàrl, Ecublens
Tyre Recycling Solutions SA, Préverenges
WattelseAG, Cham
XsensioSA, Lausanne