Cœur à Cœur

This article is about the Swiss radio and television campaign. For it's general campaign as Serious Request on Dutch 3FM station and other stations, see Serious Request.

Cœur à Cœur (CÀC) (literally Heart-to-Heart) is the French Swiss version of Serious Request, originally created by Dutch radio station NPO 3FM in 2004.

The annually recurring show is a charity fundraiser for a chosen cause. As in the original Dutch version, several radio hosts or television personalities are locked inside a glass house for around a week. Every year, funds are collected in favour of Swiss Solidarity.^[1] The show is broadcast live in December on the Swiss public broadcasting organisation Radio Télévision Suisse (RTS).^[2]

The first edition, called Couleur Terre, took place in 2007 on Couleur 3.^[3] The show was then discontinued until 2016, when it returned with a new name and on other radio stations: Option Musique from 2016 to 2018 and La Première since 2019.

There was a similar format in the German-speaking part of Switzerland called Jeder Rappen zählt which was held every year until 2018.^[4]

Summary

Period	Main broadcaster	City	Location	Personalities	Cause	Amount collected
Couleur Terre
2007[5] 19–24 December	Couleur 3	Geneva	Place de la Rôtisserie	Emilie Gasc Yann Zitouni Michel Ndeze	Access to drinking water	CHF 252'000
Cœur à Cœur
2016[6] 17–23 December	Option Musique	Lausanne	Place Centrale	Pauline Seiterle Jonas Schneiter Philippe Robin	People in need	CHF 1'230'276
2017[7] 16–22 December	Option Musique	Lausanne	Place Centrale	Pauline Seiterle Jonas Schneiter Philippe Robin	Young people in need	CHF 1'257'461
2018[8] 15–21 December	Option Musique	Lausanne	Place Centrale	Tania Chytil Jonas Schneiter Philippe Martin	Children victims of abuse	CHF 1'519'224
2019[9] 14–20 December	La Première	Sion	Place du Midi	Tania Chytil Jonas Schneiter Philippe Martin	Children victims of abuse	CHF 3'140'136
2020[10] 12–18 December	La Première	None a		Tania Chytil Vincent Veillon Philippe Martin	Children victims of abuse	CHF 2'028'186
2021	Not held
2022[11] 17–23 December	La Première	None b		Tania Chytil Jonas Schneiter Philippe Martin	Children victims of abuse	CHF 1'718'983
2023[12] 16–22 December	La Première	Sion, Gruyères, Geneva, Montreux, Neuchâtel, Biel/Bienne & Delémont c		Tania Chytil Jonas Schneiter Philippe Martin	Education for children and young adults	CHF 4'329'701

^a Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the hosts weren't locked inside a glass house. Instead, they visited more than 60 locations all over Romandy.

^b Once again, there was no glass house. The hosts visited a different canton each day: Bern on Saturday, Valais on Sunday, Fribourg on Monday, Geneva on Tuesday, Vaud on Wednesday, Jura on Thursday and Neuchâtel on Friday.^[13]

^c This edition saw the return of the house glass, but it moved to a new city every day.^[14]

See also

• Serious Request
• Jeder Rappen zählt
• Couleur Terre