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The project investigates how, since the 1960s, a distinct planning culture has emerged along the Swiss German–French language border (Röstigraben), materializing in architecture and urban design, becoming visible and negotiable in social practices, and exhibiting specific characteristics of building…

Developing next-generation lithium-free electron injection materials for longer-lasting, more sustainable OLEDs, supported by predictive modelling, device validation, and advanced simulation tools.

Sustainable aviation fuels can significantly reduce the climate impact of aviation. This project is investigating how these fuels affect the stability and safety of aircraft engines.

Tech-TO.BE will build an inclusive, pan-European community to bridge the fundamental digitalisation gap in the Architecture, Engineering, Construction, and Operation (AECO) value chain.

We pioneer neuro-symbolic methods that retain the interpretability and mechanistic grounding of classical phylogenetics while integrating the representational richness of genomic large language models. Beyond improving phylogenetic accuracy, this enables detailed study of evolutionary dynamics in…

Coral reefs are critical ecosystems that support a third of all marine species. Yet they are rapidly degrading due to climate change, nutrient overload, and overfishing—mass bleaching and ocean acidification are weakening reef resilience. There is a pressing need for scalable, non-invasive…

Evaluation of the expansion of PACE's palliative night-time support to Zurich's Health Centres for the Elderly (2021–2026)

How does Switzerland pay? The goal of the Swiss Payment Monitor is to comprehensively illuminate the Swiss payment landscape from different perspectives.

DIDIT closes a key knowledge gap regarding the modeling of dopants and ionic defects in organic semiconductors and halide perovskites. Through the development and experimental validation of new models, the project aims to elucidate degradation mechanisms and enable higher-performance devices.

AGNES (A-PNT and GBAS Navigation Enhanced Solutions) strengthens the resilience, continuity and performance of European Communications, Navigation and Surveillance by developing, integrating and validating next-generation Positioning, Navigation and Timing. The project targets the Work Programme…

The framework incorporates the site development plan model (Gestaltungsplan) and different interpretations of the new Building and Zoning Regulations (BZO). These are translated into transparent assumptions and simulation scenarios for Smart Buildings.

This project investigates how AI can build calibrated differential diagnoses for multimorbid patients and how its treatment plans can be reliably evaluated.

Swiss pension funds value their liabilities with proprietary life tables based on data from 14 large funds. This project tests whether comparable tables can be derived from public data (FSO, HMD) using Lee-Carter and CBD models, and provides an open, reproducible data pipeline.

This study investigates the lived experiences of women school leaders in educational institutions within the eThekwini district of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa and the Canton of Zurich in Switzerland, focusing on how they perceive, navigate, and make sense of their leadership roles.

We develop a new system for condition-based maintenance of train bogies and railway tracks, using existing operational data together with cost-efficient IoT sensors installed onboard in-service trains. By continuously monitoring the condition of both vehicles and infrastructure, the system enables…

AZTA continuously strengthens companies' cybersecurity by analyzing logs, configurations, metrics, and network data to identify areas for improvement. An additional industry benchmark based on zero-trust principles enables companies to specifically enhance their cybersecurity.