 The SNI also supports titular professors Frithjof Nolting and Thomas Jung, who work in the Department of Physics at the University of Basel and at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), and, from the end of 2014, Michel Kenzelmann who also works for the PSI and the Department of Physics.Since it was founded, the SNI has placed great value on the transfer of academic findings to industry.To optimize this process, the SNI started an annual call for applied research projects.