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FEAT4AFRICA aims to strengthen food and nutrition security (FNS) in African urban areas by integrating innovative agri-food technologies within a Living Lab (LL) network that facilitates adoption, diffusion, and social acceptance. The project seeks to improve urban food literacy, enabling citizens…

This empirical research project on road safety follows an innovative participatory approach to examine how schoolchildren perceive hazardous situations on their way to school and in the school environment.

The Care for Rare Navigator develops a digital, AI-supported counsel-ling system for families affected by rare diseases, providing needs-oriented, everyday support that complements existing care structures. Expected outcomes include strengthened orientation and self-efficacy as well as psychosocial…

TESSA integrates AI agents via Model Context Protocol to democratize district heating design. By enabling natural language interfaces, consultants can access advanced thermal simulation and storage optimization without specialist expertise—accelerating the energy transition and supporting…

This feasibility study develops a web-based interface for a novel Traffic Prediction Engine (TPE), enabling highly accurate and fast simulations of urban traffic flows to support data-driven and sustainable transport and infrastructure planning.

We are developing an end-to-end system for the automatic detection, segmentation, and identification of music in full-length movies. Audio is analyzed in one-second windows using pretrained models, merged into candidate tracks, reviewed, and submitted to external APIs; identification accuracy is…

Cell cultures, mainly antibody producing Chinese Hamster Ovary cells, but also Human Embryonic Kidney cells or stem cells, are cultivated in chemically defined medium. After cultivation is terminated, the cells are separated from the cell culture medium using cyclical cake filtration and the…

Traditional surveys are often limited in their ability to deliver in‑depth insights for strategic decision‑making. By introducing LLMs to conduct dynamic feedback conversations, relevant topics, patterns, and causal relationships can be systematically extracted, as LLM‑driven dialogues enable…

Exploring the potential of AI for early-stage development in a real suburban Zürich urban development site from an investor perspective

Background: In Switzerland, people with dementia often receive community care services (called “Spitex”). People with dementia report several physical, emotional, social or practical symptoms and needs throughout their disease trajectory and while under the care of such community services. In this…

Exercise is medicine. The Swiss national strategy for the prevention of non-communicable diseases aims to promote exercise as medicine in the context of primary and secondary prevention. The Swiss Federal Office of Public Health has prepared the ground for the national implementation of Exercise is…

AI is becoming increasingly important in research, industry, and everyday life. However, many documents that explain or discuss AI, such as reports, articles, and blog posts are difficult to understand or available only in a few languages. The LEXICAI project aims to make such AI-related texts…

In the Innosuisse project AI4Alps, the ZHAW is investigating how customer decisions and booking processes change when information is no longer primarily found via traditional search engines and websites, but increasingly via AI-based response systems and digital assistants. Current knowledge shows…

Apprentices at the Winterthur Mechatronics School receive additional training in collaboration with the IPP for metal-3D-Printing

Shared Practices: Architecture between Switzerland and Morocco (1930–1990) explores a largely overlooked chapter in architectural and construction history: the collaboration between Swiss and Moroccan practitioners before and after Morocco’s independence in 1956.

This project aims to develop an AI-powered RAG system to verify ESG controversies of companies. The solution reduces noise, ensures veracity, and reviews board member integrity, enabling Swiss pension funds to make more transparent and responsible investment decisions.