Brief history of the Culture Collection
The CCOS was founded in 2010 as the national centre for culture collection in Switzerland. It is an independent company and cooperates closely with the Department of Life Sciences & Facility Management of the Zurich University of Applied Sciences, and with the Federal Office for the Environment in Berne.
| 2018 | Recertification under ISO 9001:2015 |
| 2018 | G.Dasen takes over as CEO of CCOS |
| 2017 | CCOS acquires the status of International Depositary Authority (IDA) under the Budapest Treaty |
| 2016 | CCOS gets a new curator for the collection: C. Kunkel |
| 2015 | S. Landert starts as new CEO of CCOS |
| 2014 | CCOS gets new laboratories at the Einsiedlerstrasse 34 |
| 2013 | CCOS becomes a member of the European Culture Collections' Organisation (ECCO) |
| 2012 | CCOS is certified according to ISO 9001:2008 |
| 2012 | CCOS becomes a member of the Swiss Biotechnology Association (SBA) |
| 2010 | Foundation as a public limited company (AG) |
| 2009 | CCOS becomes a member of the World Federation for Culture Collections (WFCC) |
| 2009 | Foundation of the CCOS as a national culture collection, supported by external grants (CTI project 9922.1 PFLS-LS) |