Support for innovative start-up ideas The DIZH innovation program promotes entrepreneurial projects in the context of digital transformation. The Founder Call provides targeted support for early start-up ideas from employees and students at DIZH universities. The Founder Call offers low-threshold start-up funding to develop an initial proof of concept from… Read More »Call for proposals: Founder Call
Five years ago today, on April 1, 2020, DIZH began operations. The Management Board has been meeting regularly since 2019, including on April 1, 2020 for the operational launch of DIZH and now, exactly five years later, once again. A fitting occasion to draw a positive interim balance. DIZH has… Read More »Five years of DIZH
How do AI-generated images influence political communication? And why does the far right make particularly frequent use of artificially created visual worlds? Roland Meyer, DIZH Bridge Professor at UZH and ZHdK, discusses the ideological and aesthetic affinity between right-wing politics and generative AI in two recent podcast episodes. Tending to… Read More »Listening Recommendation: AI Visual Language and Political Aesthetics
IMMERSE integrates mixed reality into education and university teaching. IMMERSE is being funded as part of the 2nd Structure Call and is being implemented by a core team from the Center for Dental Medicine and the Balgrist University Hospital of the University of Zurich, the ZHAW and the PHZH. More… Read More »Job vacancy: Projectmanagement & Communications Specialist
For the seventh time, the “ZHAW digital” initiative is supporting researchers working on projects related to digital transformation. This year, the scholarship is awarded to five junior and five senior fellows with doctoral students. The fellows come from four different ZHAW departments. ZHAW digital has been promoting innovation, research, and… Read More »ZHAW digital: Start of Fellowships 2025
Barbara Getto, Professor of Media Education, Center for Education and Digital Transformation PHZH, together with other experts, answered questions on media consumption and cell phone use among children, the behavior of parents and the role of schools in the SRF Live Chat on 26.02.25. Topics included strategies for preventing cyberbullying,… Read More »SRF Live Chat: Media consumption and cell phone use among children
In collaboration with international partners, the Immersive Arts Space of the ZHdK offers a residency for artists and researchers who deal with the connection between body, technology and public space. More information and application BODIES-MACHINES-PUBLICS brings together a “glocal” (global and local) network of cultural and scientific partners in Switzerland,… Read More »Open call: Residency at the Immersive Arts Space
In the second episode of the DSI Podcast “Genial Digital?”, we explore the impact of digitalization on leadership. Do leaders need to adapt their leadership style—and become more human in the process? If so, how should they go about it? And is it generally a good idea to show emotions… Read More »Should managers show more emotion?
At the World Economic Forum (WEF) 2025 in Davos, numerous topics were discussed, including the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to overcome protectionism. Dr. Ning Wang from the Digital Society Initiative of the University of Zurich emphasized that many countries view data as a critical national asset and seek to… Read More »Insights from WEF 2025
How can interdisciplinary digital skills be strengthened among vocational baccalaureate (BM) students, the exchange between BM schools and the ZHAW be intensified and BM graduates be supported in their transition from school to university by means of digital measures? This year, ZHAW digital is once again funding projects at the… Read More »Bridge between Vocational Baccalaureate and University of Applied Sciences Studies in the Canton of Zurich