“Europe has a lever that hurts”

Lhe effects of Switzerland’s exclusion from the Horizon Europe and Euratom research programs are becoming visible: projects are not renewed, Swiss researchers lose their leading positions. This situation is of particular concern to the Swiss Center for Electrotechnics and Micromechanics (CSEM), a public technology transfer organization in Neuchâtel with 536 people and a turnover of some 90 million francs. He is on the verge of losing the leadership of a European project in quantum technologies. Interview with his di…