What might an arts university look like in 2035? What is futures thinking? The ZHdK Digital Council provides insights into its 2022 thematic focus, with which it is already working on the visions of tomorrow. Futures thinking takes shape at ZHdK. Illustration: Kati Rickenbach SYLVIA BATTEGAY___ The year is 2035… Read More »Thinking into the future
Making visible the findings and results of interdisciplinary collaboration and exchange between science and practice: that was the aim of the event held on September 20, 2022. Within the framework of DIZH, a sustainable culture of cooperation between disciplines and universities is to be established. Zurich’s universities are already benefiting… Read More »DIZH: dialogue & disruption
The Swiss Science Prize Latsis 2022 goes to DSI professor Kerstin Noëlle Vokinger for her outstanding interdisciplinary research in the fields of law, medicine and technology. Kerstin Noëlle Vokinger holds a doctorate in both law and medicine. The topics she deals with are of considerable relevance to science and society, such as… Read More »Kerstin Vokinger receives Science Prize Latsis
How does technology become identity and what does digital presence have to do with courage and learning cultures? As Charlotte Axelsson puts it at digitalswitzerland: “Digitality is in a transformation itself, to be digital is no longer a separate world, it becomes a part of our DNA: especially in the… Read More »LeLa Learning Lab Higher Education Didactics for Digital Skills
Dmytro Boyarchuk and Christopher Hartwell are working together on the project Economic priorities in post-war Ukraine, funded by the Rapid Action Call. The Chicago Tribune published a commentary by the two explaining why now is the right time to talk about reconstruction and what areas the plan for Ukraine must… Read More »A Ukrainian postwar recovery plan needs specifics now. A commentary by Dmytro Boyarchuk and Christopher Hartwell in the Chicago Tribune.
Switzerland urgently needs to have a debate about which attack scenarios we can expect and what collateral damage we are willing to accept, writes Markus Christen from the University of Zurich in the column: Cyber defence – defined processes instead of “hack backs” (external link), which appeared in InsideIT. The… Read More »Is the Canton of Zurich equipped against cyber attacks?
Virtual Reality (VR) learning exercises are recognized to boost motivation of students and to be highly scalable. In Central Tanzania, Helvetas and the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) conducted a pilot study with electrical engineering students at two government vocational training schools. Helvetas is a practice partner in the… Read More »Virtual reality as a learning venue for basic vocational training – pilot test with students in Tanzania
Updates from DHD LL The DHD Living Lab (Digital Health Design Living Lab) creates an interdisciplinary structure that acts as a catalyst for innovative research and development projects by experienced and young researchers at the interface of digitalisation, health, ethics and design. The aim is to build a bridge to… Read More »Digital Health Design Living Lab
More information and news https://youtu.be/xmYqsZhWcoM How can we better protect ourselves from cyber threats? The answer to this question is as complex as cyber security itself, because the right balance must always be found between technical possibilities and political, social and economic interests. The increasing digitalisation of critical infrastructures in particular… Read More »CYREN ZH: Cyber Resilience Network For The Canton Of Zurich
From gaming to governance: four projects have been approved in the innovation program of the Digitalization Initiative of the Zurich Higher Education Institutions (DIZH). In close cooperation with practitioners, digital solutions can contribute to dealing with emergencies as a result of the war against Ukraine. In various respects, the war… Read More »DIZH funds four projects to deal with emergencies as a result of the war against Ukraine