The metaverse is considered the “next big thing” after the internet in its current form. For the industrial sector, the metaverse holds the possibility to advance physical-digital approaches such as the Industrial Internet of Things, and enables the transition from Industry 4.0 to 5.0. This SNF Spark project aims to ...

Agroforestry has significant benefits for climate change mitigation and sustainable agroecosystems. For its valorisation as climate protection project, a new carbon certification scheme that allows continuous accounting of the CO? removed by biomass carbon on a blockchain system is developed.  ...

TWIICE – Feasibility Evaluation of an Exoskeleton Rehabilitation Service.

The goal of the DAO Radar is to provide a comprehensive and insightful analysis of the Swiss DAO ecosystem. Through research, data analysis, and expert contributions, this report aims to increase transparency, promote understanding, and facilitate informed decision-making for stakeholders, including founders, ...

The idea of this project is to develop an LLM aaS that offers selection, usage and integration of LLM-based applications to companies. Based on bmq experiences we want to start with content adaption (adaption of an initial content piece to e.g. different social media channels) as an initial use case to shape and ...

To address climate and regulatory challenges for Swiss Pension and Real Estate funds, this project aims to create transparent, technology- and data-driven methods for evaluating Swiss Real Estate assets in terms of obsolescence, carbon emissions (current and forward-looking), and energy efficiency using large data ...

Personalization for Collabree - Sticky Habits Made Easy

Waste on land, at sea and even in the air is a pressing global problem. To address this challenge, this Digital Futures Fund will be used to develop a Waste Action Solution. Such a mobile app helps the user to create transparency and reduce its personal waste footprint across different materials.  ...

Carity - Digital Health Application for Cardiac Rehabilitation.

In the world of decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), there is a significant entry barrier due to the disconnection of legal and technical setup which results in high friction and high costs. Even the most affordable and transparent legal solutions for establishing a DAO as a legal wrapper can cost upwards ...

The MetaRoom project is about an innovative solution for businesses to participate in the future of e-commerce and online engagement. The tool enables existing websites to be transformed into immersive 3D spaces where users can meet to discuss a common topic and interact with products and services. By using ...

Virtuosis AI: Deployment as a Diagnostic Tool for Mental Health Conditions.

The support ecosystem for social and impact entrepreneurs, encompassing coaching, infrastructure, training, and support, is in constant flux. A dearth of support networks frequently hinders young entrepreneurs from accessing appropriate assistance, leading to project failures. Our research aims to create an ...

The Intention-Action-Gap is a critical hurdle for a sustainable world. This Digital-Future-Fund-Project aims to develop and leverage “Green Patterns” for digital user interface design. In analogy to “Dark Patterns” which often lead to negative behavior, these patterns should inspire users towards ecological ...

Addressing environmental grand challenges such as climate change and biodiversity loss requires businesses to take transformative action that goes beyond business-as-usual and have the requisite organizational leaders who can spearhead the transition towards a more environmentally sustainable world. However, ...

This project has three goals; 1) Identify the proxy voting records of major asset management companies; 2) Webscrape & clean the data to create a database with the records; 3) Explore the options for employing machine learning algorithms to estimate asset managers positions and for integrating the results in the ...

Pelt8 offers a Software as a Service (SaaS) platform for firms to automatically create sustainability reports. The platform enables firms to collect and manage all their sustainability-related data in one place accessible to suppliers, customers, and affiliated firms. In this study, Pelt8 and the ZHAW School of ...

Over the last years, Artificial Intelligence (AI) emerged as central technology for all areas of life. For instance, computer vision enabled Tesla`s autonomous vehicles and natural language processing set the foundation for Amazon`s smart assistants. However, AI reshapes not only innovation outcomes, but also ...

The implementation and impact of climate action committed under the Paris Agreement can only be monitored if climate action can be traced from countries' Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) back to local climate activities. Based on six country case studies produced by local partners in Brazil, Burkina Faso, ...

The project aims to create a set of science-based methods to systematically translate acute and chronic physical risk scenarios into the (de-)valuation of buildings over time based on building characteristics (material, roof coverage, etc.), geographic location and risk level. This will allow companies to develop ...

The Peribass association aims to strengthen young families around childbirth and create a service that is systematically linked to existing perinatal healthcare services and early childhood intervention. Furthermore, the service provides a validated interactive app that helps parents assess their potential ...

Demographic change has led to a change in the age structure of many companies in recent years. The issue of age diversity has gained importance in Switzerland, as age diversity in a workforce can lead to many opportunities but also challenges. Active management of age diversity can be of lasting benefit to ...