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CRICULT is an initiative aimed at safeguarding cultural heritage during times of crisis. CRICULT seeks to create transdisciplinary research networks to enhance our understanding of how crises impact the cultural heritage sector.

Transnational skills partnerships are a new instrument of foreign migration policy. The differently organised partnerships between countries of origin and destination countries are intended to facilitate the recruitment of skilled workers without brain drain effects and open up legal access routes…

The project enhances Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) and supports practitioners in the design and implementation of DAOs. For the first time, a DAO owning physical (and not only digital) assets is studied. For this, the No1s1 prototype is built – a physical space that owns and manages…

A guideline for Swiss SME

The Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), in collaboration with the Swiss Occupational Therapists Association, is developing a digital brochure on the use of occupational therapy at a distance for occupational therapists in the Swiss healthcare system.Spatial distance occupational therapy…

Description: Many people in Switzerland cannot use public transport or can only use it to a limited extent (e.g., due to a motor or visual impairment). They rely on paratransit services to participate in daily life. Various insurance providers, such as health insurance funds and the Swiss Disability…

Fairtrade producers in developing countries often have a stable business model and substantial growth opportunities. Due to the missing or insufficient finance infrastructure in the respective countries, Fairtrade producers do not have the opportunity to realize their growth opportunities. Although…

The survey of 1929 adults in Switzerland in the period from 17 - 26 April 2020 suggests that a large majority of the population in any case or probably intends to a) install an app for contact-tracing of SARS-CoV-2, b) report infections in the app and c) comply with the app's request for contact…

The art market is one of the last illiquid, intransparent and inefficient markets.KULT ART is a young venture born within, Helvetia Schweizer Versicherungsgesellschaft, one of the largest art insurance companies in Switzerland. KULT ART's vision is that art should be accessible to everyone, not…

Preliminary study

The purpose of this project is to create a user-centric privacy policy (UCPP), applicable in a variety of settings (e.g., websites, hospitals, or banks), which is compliant with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Most importantly, the majority of users should be able to understand it and…

Legal commentary and book "CRPD in a nutshell"

The Big Data Analytics Research Platform work package focuses on the creation of new knowledge, about theoretical approaches, methodological novelties and predictive accuracy in the application of big data analytics to finance. Specifically, the platform comprises the research work which all…

An interdisciplinary research team (Department of Banking, Finance, Insurance and Center for Corporate and Tax Law) headed by the Institute for Public Management is currently conducting a regulatory impact assessment of FINMA Circulars. The aim is to identify the costs for banks and insurance…