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Politics - 18.03.2025

Trust takes years to build and seconds to break - not least when it comes to international relations.
Politics - Environment - 18.03.2025

Politics - Civil Engineering - 13.03.2025
Platform Urbanization Processes and Uneven Effects
Politics - Innovation - 28.02.2025

History / Archeology - Politics - 26.02.2025
Historical revisionism by decree
Politics - Innovation - 20.01.2025
These three GenAI collaborations show the power of science diplomacy
Science diplomacy can transcend the geopolitical arena, building trust and bridging gaps between nations, emphasises Joėl Mesot.
Environment - Politics - 07.01.2025

Politics - Innovation - 20.12.2024
Making e-voting safer from coercion and vote buying
As we come to the end of a year in which half the world's population went to the polls, researchers developed and field-tested a groundbreaking new technology to protect remote electronic voting or e-voting from voter coercion and vote buying.
Politics - Campus - 06.12.2024

Politics - 28.11.2024

Politics - 26.11.2024
Second Mendrisio Prize: the two winners
Economics - Politics - 13.11.2024
After an interim post-corona high: Swiss companies are being severely tested by the ongoing crisis
After a brief post-corona breather, key risk indicators are pointing to the next (permanent) crisis. Although the number of crisis-resistant companies in Switzerland is disproportionately high compared to Germany and Austria, the effects of the crises are gradually making themselves felt in this country too.
Environment - Politics - 24.10.2024

A sustainable transition to a climate-friendly and biodiversity-rich Switzerland is only possible if we tackle the energy transition, climate change mitigation and biodiversity loss together.
Politics - Environment - 09.10.2024
Citizen Science Helvetia 2025: call for proposals is now open
Politics - 02.10.2024
Award for political science study
A research team of political scientists from various institutions, including the University of Lucerne, has conducted research into polarizing emotions towards political parties and their leading politicians.
Politics - 23.09.2024
Switzerland participates in G20 discussions on research and innovation
Computer Science - Politics - 14.09.2024

On 14 September, ETH Zurich officially inaugurated the new 'Alps' supercomputer at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) in Lugano.
Media - Politics - 06.09.2024
The journalism crisis: can we manage without journalists?
Tamedia, the owner of the newspapers 24 heures , Tribune de Genčve , and Le Matin dimanche , has announced significant job cuts.
Administration - Politics - 11.07.2024

Agronomy / Food Science - Politics - 10.07.2024

Politics - Research Management - 25.06.2024
Federal Councillor Guy Parmelin to travel to China with a business and science delegation
Transport - Politics - 07.06.2024
How can we tax electric cars without slowing down the electromobility transition?
The federal government has plans to tax electric vehicles to secure funding for road infrastructure.
Health - Politics - 31.05.2024
Ministers of Health from Rwanda and Senegal Visit Swiss TPH
Politics - Administration - 23.05.2024

Politics - 23.05.2024
USI at the World Trade Organisation in Geneva
Innovation - Politics - 25.04.2024
Switzerland co-chairs OECD Science and Technology Policy Ministerial Meeting
Environment - Politics - 17.04.2024

To achieve a decarbonized world, clean energy sources will have to be widely adopted - yet there's a range of obstacles in the way. A number of researchers are studying these obstacles and mapping out strategies for getting past them. Here's a look at some of their findings. The first one is financial.
Research Management - Politics - 10.04.2024
Horizon package: Federal Council to finance transitional measures in 2024
Politics - Social Sciences - 10.04.2024
Study on "anti-gender" policy in Switzerland and Europe
A Europe-wide research project shows where and how "anti-gender" policies manifest themselves in different countries. It also exists in Switzerland, as a partial study by the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, the University of Lausanne and the University of Fribourg shows. 'Anti-gender' policy refers to efforts aimed at restricting sexual and gender diversity and gender equality.
Research Management - Politics - 08.03.2024
Federal Council sets education, research and innovation policy for 2025-2028
Social Sciences - Politics - 04.03.2024
Immigrant political participation is associated with more positive majority immigration attitudes across European countries and Swiss cantons
New article on immigrant political participation in Europe and Swiss cantons published online Comparative Migration Studies Immigrants are increasingly participating in politics, publicizing their political concerns and contributions.
Politics - 15.02.2024

Politics - 14.02.2024
Swiss-UK Agreement on the mutual recognition of professional qualifications: Dispatch sent to Parliament
Politics - Innovation - 12.02.2024
DigiPart-Index: a need for cooperation between the cantons
The publication of the third DigiPartIndex Report, to which Universitą della Svizzera italiana also contributed, is now available.
Politics - Research Management - 24.01.2024
Science diplomacy: Switzerland intensifies bilateral cooperation with partner countries in the area of higher education, research and innovation
Environment - Politics - 18.01.2024

Environment - Politics - 18.01.2024

Computer Science - Politics - 17.01.2024

Computer Science - Politics - 17.01.2024

Environment - Politics - 09.01.2024

As Thomas Bernauer sees it, information on the impact that different segments of the population have on the climate is an essential ingredient in making climate policy measures fair and acceptable to the majority.
Politics - Administration - 09.01.2024
’The days of ą la carte cooperation are over.’
Health - Politics - 09.01.2024

Environment - Politics - 08.01.2024
Silvia Santini appointed member of the Federal Commission for Energy Research (CORE)
Environment - Politics - 01.12.2023
President Berset presents Switzerland's goals at UN Climate Change Conference COP28
Environment - Politics - 22.11.2023

The Federal Commission for Air Hygiene has assessed the revised guideline values issued by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2021 and their significance for Switzerland's Air Pollution Control Ordinance.
Research Management - Politics - 25.10.2023
Horizon package: Confederation funds further transitional measures for mono-beneficiary projects
Politics - Administration - 20.10.2023

Politics - 18.10.2023

Research Management - Politics - 11.10.2023
Economic and scientific delegation to visit Morocco
Politics - Media - 25.09.2023

Media Research In the run-up to elections and referendums, the news media play an important role in shaping public opinion.
Computer Science - Apr 17
What keeps alternating current in sync when large power generators go offline?
What keeps alternating current in sync when large power generators go offline?

Economics - Apr 15
Giving visibility to the alternative investment sector: project funded by the SNSF
Giving visibility to the alternative investment sector: project funded by the SNSF

Campus - ETHZ - Apr 15
Strengthening Switzerland as an AI hub and tackling the skilled labour shortage
Strengthening Switzerland as an AI hub and tackling the skilled labour shortage

Innovation - Apr 15
Communicating and understanding each other without barriers: presented the DEEP project
Communicating and understanding each other without barriers: presented the DEEP project
Life Sciences - Apr 14
Generating human brain organoids in the laboratory: the challenge of two USI researchers
Generating human brain organoids in the laboratory: the challenge of two USI researchers
