Switzerland’s federal council released 400, 000, 000 Swiss Franc( ￡320, 674, 072) last month to fund Swiss research projects once part of Horizon Europe.... Bern was cut out of the programme when it unilaterally ended talks with the EU to strike a deal in July.... Switzerland will be treated as a non-associated third country in the EU’s €100billion research and innovation programme. But academics inside the country have now slammed the decision. Yves Fluckiger, president of Swissuniversities,