DIZH was also represented at the 3rd Zurich SME Innovation Day on July 3, 2025. Under the motto “Fit for the future together: Achieving a big impact with small levers”, the focus was on current challenges and practical solutions for small and medium-sized enterprises, including digitalization and sustainability. Third Zurich… Read More »Review: 3rd Zurich SME Innovation Day 2025
On July 2, 2025, this year’s plenary assembly of DIZH took place.Despite the summer heat, around 50 participants gathered at Rämistrasse to reflect together on the connection between digitalization and sustainability. In her welcome address, Andrea Schweizer, the new president of PHZH, spoke about the halfway point of DIZH: Over… Read More »Plenary assembly 2025
Increasing visibility for digital innovation: With its 2. Outreach Call, the Digitalization Initiative of the Zurich Higher Education Institutions (DIZH) supports projects that enhance the visibility of DIZH-related activities within and beyond the partner universities and promote exchange between research, society, and practice. Funding conditions: Project duration: up to 18… Read More »Call for proposals: 2. Outreach Call
Whether in social media, advertisements, at work or in private chats: AI-generated images are increasingly shaping our visual environment. In this episode of Schampar Digital, Frank Richter and Jessica Reust talk to image and media scientist Roland Meyer about the political, social and ethical tensions surrounding AI images. Roland Meyer… Read More »Why AI images are not harmless
On August 27, a workshop will take place at the Digital Society Initiative (DSI), offering an opportunity to present project ideas and explore their potential implementation within the framework of the City of Zurich’s Innovation Credit. The Innovation Credit is a funding instrument established by the City of Zurich to… Read More »DSI: Workshop on the City of Zurich’s innovation loan
The fifth DSI Strategy Lab deals with the topic of quantum technology. It assesses the status and possible future scenarios of quantum technologies and formulates recommendations. The results of the Strategy Lab can now be read in the newly published position paper. Go to position paper It has been 100… Read More »Position paper with recommendations on quantum technology published
Shelter spaces as social and digital infrastructure for learning and working in times of crisis The SHAPE reimagines adaptive collaboration spaces for living, working, and learning in response to military conflict and its long-term impact on organizations and communities. These spaces are defined by the integration of physical shelters (such… Read More »SHAPE (Shelter-based Hubs for Adaptive Partnerships and Engagement)
Digital solutions for a cross-university, networked and future-oriented learning landscape The aim of the project is to strengthen cooperation between Zurich’s universities. The focus is on the vision of a networked ‘Zurich learning environment’. To this end, the starting point of the participating universities, international good practices and the needs… Read More »Learning environment Zurich
In the third DSI Insights of the year, Noah Bubenhofer, Co-Director of the Digital Society Initiative (DSI), explains how artificial intelligence (AI) can help with writing texts and why it doesn’t always make sense to leave the writing of a text entirely to AI. “In the educational context, this raises… Read More »How AI is changing the way we write and think
Everyone knows Albert Einstein: the outstretched tongue, the wild hairstyle, the genius behind E=mc². But who knows Mileva Marić? His first wife was a physicist herself. There are indications and discussions as to whether and to what extent she contributed to his theoretical work. She now appears in viral videos… Read More »Einstein on TikTok