The International Foresight Academy (IFA) is the first initiative worldwide to bring together foresight activities around the globe in order to expand horizons and offer new networking opportunities. This EU project, coordinated by the Austrian Institute of Technology, did not only use international exchange ...

Evaluating the advanced Public Financial Management System in Chile. Developing an Approach to implement principle based International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS) and IMF Government Financial Statistics in a rules based Latin American Environment. In later Phase, from 2019, the Standards are evaluated ...

Interdepartmental project: Evaluation of the combination of prosumer models with medium range wheather scenario forecasts.

Within the framework of the Eastern-Europe Scopes scheme [http://www.snf.ch/de/foerderung/programme/scopes/Seiten/default.aspx] the Swiss National Science foundation has authorized a three year project [http://p3.snf.ch/project-137406]. The aims of the project are knowledge transfer among the involved institutions ...

The results of the study were summarized in the following publication: Pletscher, M; Mattli, R; von Wyl, A; Reich, O; Wieser, S (2015). The societal costs of schizophrenia in switzerland. The Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics, 18, 2. 93-103 ABSTRACT: Background: Schizophrenia is a severe mental ...

On behalf of the Solothurn Filmtage, a public survey is being undertaken in cooperation with the Center for Arts Management of the ZHAW. The public survey was conducted in the years 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013 and 2015. The online survey collects information about the audience, which creates the information basis for a ...

The health technology assessment of the compulsory accident insurance scheme of hand transplantation in Switzerland U. Brügger, R. Plessow, S. Hess, A. Caballero, K. Eichler, V. Meyer, U. von Wartburg (2014), Journal of Hand Surgery (European Volume), Vol 40, Issue 9, pp. 914 - 923  ...

IVM is providing scientific support to the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) for the third time over a period of 5 years in the area of public financial management, in particular PEFA, accounting and audit. The cooperation is controlled by means of a framework contract.

Background : Demographic developments, shortage of skilled personnel and growing economic pressure in the health sector lead to an increased focus on technical solutions in the field of medical care and treatment of people. So far, robots are mainly technology-driven and still in the development and testing phase. ...

Micronutrient deficiencies (MNDs) are a major public health problem in the developing world and particularly harmful during early childhood. We estimate the cost-effectiveness of interventions with fortified foods for the reduction of MNDs in children. The study proceeds by answering the following questions: 1) Do ...

The importance of the concept “resilience” is growing in the context of coping with crisis. The concept was originally developed in the context of families asking how family members ac-quire resistance to tensions/ crisis within families. Recently the concept was transferred and adapted to societal crisis, such as ...

The Center for Arts Management (ZKM) of ZHAW, Theater Winterthur and TQU Winterthur AG are developing a sustainable, theatertypical quality management system (Theater Quality Frame) using a pilot project at Theater Winterthur. It contains the theater specific core processes as well as supporting processes, ...

QUESTIONS UNDER STUDY: To perform a cost-of-illness study of acute coronary syndrome (ACS) in Switzerland from a societal perspective, evaluating direct costs, production losses and intangible costs in terms of quality adjusted life years (QALYs) lost. METHODS: A bottom-up incidence-based approach was used. Data ...

A major concern in education in Switzerland (and most European countries) is the promotion of MINT-subjects (Mathematics, Informatics, Science and Technique). MINT-Agenda (http://www.satw.ch/educamint/), a platform and exchange place for educational resources provides school teachers in Switzerland an opportunity to ...

Professional web-based scientific searching and knowledge management are major tools of most researchers/ knowledge workers. But how can this topic be taught or learnt? In collabo-ration with the ZHAW libraries, the University of Tübingen and the company “Agora”, one of the biggest open educational resource in the ...

Exploratory research project on the Swiss direct banking market with an external project partner.

On behalf of the Solothurn Filmtage, a public survey is being undertaken in cooperation with the Center for Arts Management of the ZHAW. The public survey was conducted in the years 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013 and 2015. The online survey collects information about the audience, which creates the information basis for a ...

Starting off with REPF Analysis in 2009/10, the Institute of Public Management (IVM) evaluated the Public Financial Management Reforms in the Republic of Indonesia at various stages, both at national Level (in collaboration with the Ministry of Finance, KSAP and BPKP) and sub-national Level (in colloaboration with ...