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Digitising Environmental Impacts using Geospatial Analytics

Project state closed Project start May 2024 Funding duration 22 months Universities involved ZHAW Practice partners PanGeo Nature Risk GmbH Scalable, location-based scoring of biodiversity and water risks for companies and investors Nature risks are accelerating and now carry direct operational, financial, and reputational consequences. Regulators, investors, NGOs, and media… Read More »Digitising Environmental Impacts using Geospatial Analytics

Design your city: A virtual reality experience for sustainable urban spaces

Project state closed Project start July 2023 Funding duration 24 months Universities involved ZHAW, ZHdK Practice partners Tiefbauamt Stadt Zürich (TAZ), Soziale Dienste Zürich (SOD), Amt für Städtebau Zürich (AfS), myclimate, Fussverkehr Schweiz, UmverkehR “Design Your City” is an innovative virtual reality experience that enables new forms of participation in… Read More »Design your city: A virtual reality experience for sustainable urban spaces

Biodiversity Value At Risk

Project state closed Project start December 2022 Funding duration 14 months Universities involved ZHAW Funding amount DIZH CHF 66'719 BIOVAR: ASSESSING AND DIGITIZING RISK EXPOSURE RESULTING FROM BIODIVERSITY LOSS The ongoing SNSF-Innosuisse project www.spatial-sustainable-finance.ch is collecting and integrating multidimensional data to measure the dynamics of biodiversity in different regions of… Read More »Biodiversity Value At Risk

DSS_Embrace

A collaborative environment to embrace deep uncertainties in decision making on climate risks Project state closed Project start November 2021 Funding duration 27 months Universities involved UZH, ZHAW Practice partner City of Zurich, City of Winterthur, Swiss Re Funding amount DIZH CHF 238’622 DSS_Embrace aimed to enhance the capacity of… Read More »DSS_Embrace

Transformation of the textile industry from push to pull production through digitalization

Project state closed Project start October 2021 Funding duration 24 months Universities involved ZHAW Practice partners Schweizerische Textilfachschule (STF); Image Wear AG; Swisstextiles; further associated partners Funding amount DIZH CHF 171’721 https://youtu.be/AXXiWaj6KqY The fashion industry is characterised by the mass production of homogeneous and standardised fashion items. Fast fashion attempts… Read More »Transformation of the textile industry from push to pull production through digitalization