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
The call promotes projects in which solutions to relevant practical questions and current societal challenges are developed. This explicitly includes the possibility of working on novel, risky questions for which the path to implementation or the measurement of the impact is fraught with uncertainty. We are looking for projects that… Read More »New call in the innovation program: Call for project proposals
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
DSI hosted a European hub for a conference held in Australia in mid-June. In the video, organizer and DSI postdoc Mario Angst talks about his experience with this new format and how it helps reduce researchers’ individual CO2 emissions.
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?
The Digitalization Initiative of the Zurich Higher Education Institutions (DIZH) intensifies the exchange with practice and the public. To this end, DIZH is funding four innovation structures with a total of 16 million Swiss francs for the areas of Autonomous Systems, Clinical Innovation, Cybersecurity and Digital Health. DIZH is creating… Read More »Innovation through exchange and networking
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
Have a look behind the shiny surfaces of the smartphone industry. The video gives an impression of the Kamituga | Digital Gold project, which was shown as part of the Planet Digital exhibition at the Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich. More information: www.digital-gold.ch www.immersive-arts.ch
We are looking for researchers (PhD’s) who are at the beginning of their academic career and are conducting interdisciplinary research on topics that are closely related to digitalisation and its impact on society. Possible research fields include digital health, digital ethics, religion and digitalisation, digital humanities, legal tech, etc. The… Read More »DSI Bridge Postdoc Call