In response to the Swiss popular initiative “mass immigration”, the European Commission has excluded Switzerland from Horizon 2020 and from Erasmus+, two main grant programmes for research and education.
Please find more information here:
http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/funding/reference_docs.html#h2020-grants-manual-hi-3cpart
http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/other/hi/h2020-hi-swiss-part_en.pdf
Two petitions against this decision were started by Swiss researchers and supporters.
„Switzerland must remain part of European Science“
https://www.openpetition.de/petition/online/switzerland-must-remain-part-of-european-science
„Erasmus+ and Horizon 2020: not without Switzerland“
http://www.not-without-switzerland.org/en/
What do you think?
Dear Michael, thanks for your view -- the "accommodation" seems to evolve.
Meanwhile, Euresearch (a Swiss Association includung univesities and other research stakeholders) has publised "Frequently Asked Questions on Swiss Third Country Participation in Horizon 2020" (Update published on 04 April 2014).
https://www.euresearch.ch/en/
see Lates News and Calls
or the direkt link to the pdf document:
https://www.euresearch.ch/fileadmin/redacteur/About_Euresearch/20140404_FAQ_Swiss_third-country_participation_in_Horizon2020-Version_upd..pdf
However, you put another subject: the impact of EU funds on patents or whatever. IMO worth a discussion. Distributing the money directly to researchers without mandatory composing 8-or-more-country-consortia may raise the impact and save lots of administration and management money.
[technical update: sorry, the 2nd link was wrong. I just corrected it: two dots before "pdf" are correct]
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