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
The new fög-study was published on September 23, 2025. It shows that AI is already widely used in Swiss journalism. 87% of the media professionals surveyed use AI tools, primarily for support tasks such as transcription or text optimization. However, opinions on the impact on quality are mixed. In addition,… Read More »AI literacy in Swiss journalism – How to strengthen the digital resilience of journalism and audiences
The project aims to develop an automated monitoring tool that makes comparative trend analyses of public debates in the education sector accessible to stakeholders and thus enables more differentiated debates. The aim is to contribute to greater transparency in education policy discourse, developments and decisions. Core team Prof. Dr. Barbara… Read More »Educational Policy Transparency Interface
The project aims to promote digital literacy in an academic context with the inclusion of artificial intelligence (AI). It supports students and teaching staff in developing skills in the use of digital tools and AI technologies for academic work and writing. Core team Dr. Christian Rapp, ZHAW School of Management and… Read More »Technological support for scientific work, writing and thinking in the age of AI: conceptualization, technology integration and didactics
In an ICU, time-efficient retrieval, precise understanding, and following Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) are critical for ensuring optimal treatment and patient safety. To address this, we develop a multi-lingual, user-tailored, and AI-powered dialogue system over SOP documents which is seamlessly integrated with medical semantic taxonomies. Core team Dr. Ahmad Aghaebrahimian,… Read More »Advancing Information Accessibility in Hospitals Employing Large Language Models
Bridging Orthopedics through Digital Mirroring MedTwins Agil.IT will leverage cloud services to create a Trusted Research Environment connecting the hospital IT system with scalable IT resources. This agile environment will pave the way for cloud usage in the R&D process of clinical AI and accelerate the translation of digital technology… Read More »MedTwins Agil.IT
The project promotes the quality of discourse in the digital space by empowering people methodically and digitally using a browser extension to react constructively to hate speech as online street workers and to de-escalate escalations. The extension assists in recognizing and processing hate speech. More information Publication Bühler, Judith; von… Read More »Social influencer
Similarity-based AI for Rare Diseases The RareSim project aims at developing novel AI-based approaches to support physicians in their tasks of helping rare disease patient (in particular for diagnosis). Whilst these more than 7000 rare diseases each afflict less than 2000 people, it is estimated that for all these diseases… Read More »RareSim
The Apéro Digital event series are regular in-person gatherings for those who are interested in science and technology to meet and discuss pressing issues related to digitalization, innovations and society in a systematic and argumentative way. Apéro Digital is composed of public talks around topics related to human-centered technology and value-based… Read More »Apéro Digital
“Conversations with Stanley” enables the audience to have conversations in real time with an emotionally responsive artificial intelligence. The project aims to make technology tangible in a low-threshold way, encourage critical reflection and open up a public and broad debate on the role of algorithms in our society. Learn more… Read More »Conversations with Stanley