Project state closed Project start July 2024 Funding duration 15 months Universities involved ZHAW Practice partners Dachverband Schweizer Jugendparlamente, Pro Juventute Strengthening the AI generation: Promoting digital self-protection for teenagers and young adults The project investigates how teenagers and young adults handle personal data online and how this behaviour can… Read More »AI-Strong
Project state closed Project start September 2024 Funding duration 6 months Universities involved UZH Practice partners URPP Dynamics of Healthy Aging Funding amount DIZH CHF 29’091 A growing body of research in psychology and sociology has shown that profound dissatisfaction with body image is an increasingly pressing problem among young… Read More »UnRealBody: Inoculating Young People Against Harm from Unrealistic AI-Based Body Images
Project state closed Project start September 2024 Funding duration 12 months Universities involved UZH Practice partners Universitätsspital Zürich Funding amount DIZH CHF 75’014 TRUST-RAD develops AI tools for radiology that are not only powerful, but also reliable and transparent. A key achievement is RadVLM, a new AI model for chest… Read More »TRUST-RAD: Trustworthy Medical AI Assistant Tools for Radiology
Project state closed Project start September 2024 Funding duration 12 months Universities involved UZH, ZHAW, PHZH Practice partners CheckNews Children and young people no longer use Google; instead, they ask ChatGPT. They know that not every answer is correct, but they often lack the skills to critically evaluate AI content.… Read More »Digital resilience: tool for AI and deepfake skills among young people
Project state closed Project start September 2024 Funding duration 14 months Universities involved ZHAW, UZH Practice partners Bildungsdirektion des Kantons Zürich The Cyber Safari is dedicated to the urgent need to make young people more resilient to the risks of the online world. The central focus of the research is… Read More »Cyber Safari – Zurich learning path to digital resilience
Project state closed Project start August 2024 Funding duration 14 months Universities involved UZH, ZHAW Practice partners Qualität im Journalismus (QuaJou), Schweizer Syndikat Medienschaffender (SSM), Junge Journalistinnen und Journalisten Schweiz (JJS) Academic partners Università della Svizzera italiana USI, Université de Fribourg, Fachhochschule Graubünden FHGR How is AI used in Swiss… Read More »AI literacy in Swiss journalism – How to strengthen the digital resilience of journalism and audiences
The book “Accessible research and teaching at universities” offers valuable recommendations for the barrier-free design of universities for researchers and teachers with disabilities or chronic illnesses. It is aimed at university management and university staff who are responsible for structural measures, digital channels, lecture halls and diversity offices. Potential barriers… Read More »Digital accessibility for all
A free one-day exhibition is being held in Winterthur to mark the halfway point of the ZHAW digital initiative. Digitalization projects from the fields of health, art, data protection and education will be on display and participants will be invited to interact, discuss and play. Scavenger hunt and hands-on digitalization… Read More »Discuss, discover, puzzle: Experience digitization at the ZHAW exhibition
On April 17, 2024, the University of Zurich hosted an event for high school students. The full-day hackathon provided a platform for young and aspiring students to explore the potential of AI in shaping their educational and career choices. Keynote speakers Daniela Gunz from the Career Center UZH and Reinhard… Read More »Recap of “Kick-start your Career with AI”-Hackathon
With the Center for Arts and Cultural Theory (ZKK), the University of Zurich (UZH) and the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) will be running a joint center from 2024. The Faculty of Arts and Humanities (UZH) and the Department of Cultural Analysis and Mediation (ZHdK) are involved. The focus… Read More »“Unpredictable Collaborations”: Kick-off of the inter-university Center for Arts and Cultural Theory (ZKK) and DIZH Bridge Professorship