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2024
Prix Média und Prix MultiMédia: Von Urzeitmüttern und arktischen Gletschern
Bern, 15.11.2024 | swiss-academies
Anja Krug-Metzinger erhält für ihren Dokumentarfilm über die Ursprünge der menschlichen Kooperation den Prix Média, während Aurélie Coulon, Rachel Barbara Häubi und Kylian Marcos für ihre Multimedia-Reportage zur Gletscherschmelze in der Arktis mit dem erstmals ausgeschriebenen Prix MultiMédia ausgezeichnet werden.
Switzerland to establish a National Competence Centre for Scientific Integrity
Bern, 11.11.2024 | swiss-academies
At its meeting on 8 November 2024, the Swiss Conference of Higher Education Institutions passed the Ordinance on Quality Assurance in the Area of Scientific Integrity. This resolved to set up a Competence Centre for Scientific Integrity Switzerland. The Competence Centre will act in an advisory capacity for higher education institutions when it comes to scientific integrity in addition to gathering data on scientific integrity in Switzerland.
Sustainable University Day il 12 novembre a Zurigo
Berna, 05.11.2024 | academie-svizzere
Il 12 novembre 2024, presso il Politecnico di Zurigo e l'Università di Zurigo, si terrà il Sustainable University Day. La conferenza promossa dal programma di finanziamento U Change delle Accademie svizzere delle scienze, è organizzata congiuntamente dalle scuole universitarie zurighesi ZHdK, ZHAW, ETH, HfH, PHZH e UZH. Invita tutti i membri delle scuole universitarie svizzere e chiunque sia interessato-a ad approfondire il tema «Rafforzare la cultura della sostenibilità nelle scuole universitarie».
How the microstructure of snow in the Arctic influences sea ice and the global climate
Berne, 19.09.2024 | swiss-academies
Amy R. Macfarlane will be awarded the Prix de Quervain 2024 for her excellent and innovative doctoral dissertation at the ETH Zurich and the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF. Her research serves as a base to reduce major uncertainties on sea ice modelling and to improve the quality of global climate models predictions. For this, she applied a wide variety of instruments to measure the microstructure of snow in high resolution directly in the Arctic for the first time.
Le persone anziane invecchiano e si sentono più giovani
26.08.2024 | accademie-svizzere e partner
La popolazione svizzera è sempre più longeva. La speranza di vita cresce e dopo il pensionamento vi è la prospettiva di trascorrere alcuni anni di vita in buona salute, da sfruttare attivamente. Le persone anziane si sentono vecchie solo a 80 anni. Le modalità di vita e il tipo di economia domestica o l’organizzazione della propria esistenza al termine della vita professionale sono sempre più variate. Si riscontrano disuguaglianze in termini di situazione finanziaria, salute e partecipazione sociale. Questi sono alcuni dei risultati della seconda edizione di «Panorama della società svizzera» sul tema dell’invecchiamento e della vecchiaia nelle società di oggi.
Switzerland should take an active approach to critical materials for the energy transition
Bern, 27.06.2024 | swiss-academies
The worldwide expansion of renewable energies is rapidly boosting demand for many raw materials and rare earths used to manufacture solar panels, batteries and other electronic components. Many of these raw materials originate from only a few countries, leading to one-sided dependence. Even though Switzerland mainly imports components and finished products, this country is indirectly impacted by any supply bottlenecks or geopolitical restrictions, according to a new report written by researchers from the Energy Commission of the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences. The proposed options for action range from technical innovations and the expansion of recycling to international agreements.
Swiss Data Literacy Charter as the basis for data literacy
Bern, 15.05.2024 | swiss-academies
The Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences are publishing a Data Literacy Charter for Switzerland. This Charter is intended to initiate a broad-based cultural change in the way society handles general and personal data. One aim is for each person to be in a position to determine how personal data is handled. A further aim of the Charter is that people should be able to critically evaluate data and statements based on it.
Five new members admitted to the Swiss Young Academy
Bern, 13.05.2024 | Swiss Young Academy
The Members’ Assembly of the Swiss Young Academy (SYA) has elected five new members. The new members were able to convince the Election Committee with their interest in promoting the dialogue between science and society and with their ideas for shaping the science system. The scientists and scholars newly-admitted to the Young Academy, together with the other 39 members, will be able to implement these ideas in inter- and transdisciplinary projects over the next five years.
Essential investments in education, research and innovation
22.04.2024 | ERI actors
The Federal Council draft of the Dispatch on the promotion of education, research and innovation (ERI Dispatch) for the period 2025-2028 is strongly influenced by concerns about the overall state of government finances. Thus there will be fewer financial resources available to the ERI sector in 2025 than in the previous year. As a consequence, there is a risk that the level of services will be cut back and that some of the projects carried out in the interests of Switzerland’s economy and society will have to be suspended. The cantonal universities and the ETH Domain are under particular pressure, as they can expect the growth in federal funding in coming years to be well below average.
Prix Média 2024: lanciato il bando di concorso
20.03.2024 | academie-svizzere
Per un giornalismo scientifico avvincente: è questo l'obiettivo che le Accademie svizzere delle scienze si prefiggono assegnando dei premi per i contributi eccellenti del giornalismo scientifico. Quest'anno, per la prima volta, il Prix MultiMédia sarà assegnato a forme innovative di narrazione. I giovani talenti con idee per contributi giornalistici sui temi della ricerca e della scienza possono candidarsi al Prix Média Newcomer per realizzare i loro progetti. Il Prix Média, invece, è rivolto a professionisti esperti.
Etablierter Dialog zwischen Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft gefährdet
08.03.2024 | akademien-schweiz
Aus der heute publizierten Botschaft zur Förderung von Bildung, Forschung und Innovation (BFI) 2025 bis 2028 geht eine beträchtliche Finanzierungslücke für die Grundaufgaben der Akademien der Wissenschaften Schweiz hervor. Damit sind nicht nur die ambitionierten Ziele des Bundesrats für den Wissenschaftsstandort Schweiz in Gefahr. Darüber hinaus wird ein Netzwerk von über 100’000 ehrenamtlich engagierten Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern spürbar und nachhaltig beeinträchtigt.
Food 4.0 funding programme: Innovative project ideas for a sustainable Swiss food system
Zürich, 22.02.2024 | swiss-academies | SATW
This year's call for proposals to promote innovative projects in the Swiss food system met with great interest. A panel of experts selected the six most promising projects from the 30 submitted. These will now receive financial support.
How to counter online misinformation and conspiracy theories: Recommendations from scholars and practitioners
Bern, 15.2.2024 | swiss-academies
What challenges exist when addressing online misinformation and conspiracy theories? And what strategies can be used to best meet these challenges? These questions were posed to experts in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic by researchers from the Swiss Young Academy and the University of Zurich, who now present recommendations for decision-makers in journalism, politics, and academia
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