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Switzerland's growing regulatory push for recycled building materials, from SIA  standards to Zurich's 50% recycled concrete mandate, has driven steady demand for products like R-concrete. Yet manufacturers struggle with a fundamental bottleneck: end-of-life construction materials are sourced from a…

Nurses working in acute care are often confronted with sexual harassment by patients. The StopSH project aims to develop effective, practical interventions for preventing and dealing with sexual harassment, in collaboration with nurses.

In collaboration with the Integrierte Psychiatrie Winterthur – Zürcher Unterland, the ZHAW is developing the strategic foundation for a digitalisation roadmap and investment proposal for their facility management department.

The SLSP Courier circulates physical media between around 500 Swiss libraries. Digitalisation and declining transport volumes are creating new challenges for the system. This study examines the cost-efficiency, sustainability and acceptance of the current courier service and develops strategic…

In additive manufacturing, metal components are firmly bonded to the build plate. With large-scale 3D printing systems, conventional separation techniques reach their limits. The IPP wire saw solves this problem.

GPU based CFD Solver for gradient based aerodynamic shape optimization High fidelity gradient based optimizations will help to reduce development time by relieving the designer of low level design decisions. Proof of concept software exist but no framework was written with this specific application…

The physical, mental, and social health of children, adolescents, and adults is at risk when one of their family members is ill. We will therefore investigate how healthcare institutions in German-speaking Switzerland have been able to sustainably implement family systems care.

The project promotes a critical and reflective approach to Artificial Intelligence (AI) among students and teachers. At its core is the educational tool “AI School” (“KI-Schule”), which was developed as part of the “Digital Resilience” project within the 3rd DIZH Rapid Action Call. The tool has…

EmPower is a resource-oriented smartphone app for health promotion based on Positive Psychology. It strengthens resilience through mini-interventions, self-monitoring, and chatbot support.

Modern data systems are fragmented, making efficient and portable workloads difficult. A unified abstraction is missing. AI4Flex.Data decouples workload definition from execution, uses AI for engine selection, and enables flexible, optimized multi engine processing.

Behavioral Journey Mapping for the psychological and behavioral economics–driven optimization of a customer decision journey, with a focus on onboarding customers to a self-service app.

The shoulder is one of the most mobile but also one of the most complex joints in the human body. The muscles of the rotator cuff control its movement and stability. This project is developing an adaptive method that measures the effect of these muscles more precisely in order to create a better…

The rapid integration of renewable and distributed energy resources, coupled with the growing electrification of transportation and heating, is making grid operation increasingly complex and dynamic. Therefore, research that focuses on the prevention of catastrophic events and the maintenance of…

Raman spectroscopy is attractive for material analysis because it provides a chemical fingerprint quickly and without contact. In practice, however, the Raman signal is often obscured by strong fluorescence, especially in colored plastics and many organic samples. This project investigates how to…

This project examines how agentic AI can improve DAO governance by reducing inefficiencies, centralization, and low participation. Using case studies and experiments with AI agents, it evaluates benefits, risks, and impacts on democratic, decentralized decision-making.

The project FoodN'Feed aims to fill the gap in the development of native microbial communities for Swiss-adapted sustainable grain legume cultivation by capturing the true nodule rhizobial community and associated root microbiomes for the three most relevant grain legume crops for Switzerland…