The challenge of this project is to extend ESG ratings from portfolios with liquid assets to illiquid assets. In the case of illiquid assets such as real estate the assets can't easily be replaced and a dynamic adjustment strategy is required. To this end, we intend to develop benchmarks with which real estate can ...

Concept Development for Trustworthy Phygital Marketplaces

Gossik - The Productivity Assistant for the Young & Ambitious

Empirical Market Potential Analysis for ResGuard Med – B2B Toolbox for Early Respiratory Crisis Warning.

Decarbonisation of cities and regions is one challenge which needs to be addressed in order to achieve the Net Zero Target by 2050. In an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary setting the Flagship DeCIRRA addresses the following questions: How might we decarbonise cities and regions? How might we make best use of ...

Buildings are a major source of Swiss CO2 emission, and the existing stock will represent the overwhelming part of the sectorial energy demand for yet several decades to come. Challenges to massive and efficient retrofit are numerous, multifaceted, interrelated and transdisciplinary, from scientific as well as ...

Making Society More Resilient – Innovation and Market Potential Analysis for Moodtalk

This study intends to provide initial guidance on how to develop a blockchain governance framework for practical use scientifically. The framework will enable business to expand its services to organizations operating in the still growing Swiss blockchain economy. To this end, the study aims to outline a possible ...

The term ‘Blockchain Technology’ is currently a buzzword and is not always clearly defined. Different stakeholders have a different understanding of what it is and how it can be applied for fostering and enhancing the collaboration within business networks and ecosystems. Currently, we would define ‘blockchain’ as a ...

The Digital Health Lab (DHL) is initially planning a closed hackathon with an experienced partner, organized by the Institute of Business Information Technology (IWI). Thus, experiences shall be gathered to work on problems from the healthcare environment in annually recurring open hackathons and similar formats. In ...

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 itself over an ...

The purpose of the parliamentary friendship group Switzerland-Japan is to promote contacts between parliamentarians of the two states.

SPPC (Swiss Process–Product Corpus of Student Writing Development) is a novel longitudinal corpus of L1 student writing, linking automatically annotated and aggregated process data with the resulting product (text) and competence data. It will facilitate the development of teaching interventions with appropriate ...

Private and public actors face two systemic challenges when conducting greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting as part of their sustainability assessments. First, there is a persistent lack of methodologically sound pathways to streamline the assessment of carbon footprints and resulting decarbonisation strategies. This ...

The aim of this project is to develop a dashboard that enables the interactive evaluation of the standard indicators of Caritas Switzerland's international projects. The content of the dashboard thereby forms an essential basis for strategic project management as well as for accountability in the context of the ...

Development of forward-looking ESG-compliant methods for systematic strategies on equities, corporate bonds, sovereign bonds, responsible shorting, and option overlays.

Model-based energy scenarios can guide decision-making under considerable uncertainty by conceptualizing multiple pathways and assessing associated trade-offs. Although energy transitions require various actors to make long-term and resource-intensive decisions with low margins of error, empirical evidence of how ...

The economic performance of Belarus has been unimpressive ever since the fall of the Soviet Union, due mainly to the country’s lack of serious structural reforms. This study examines the consequences of this benign neglect should a democratic transition occur and attempts to understand the assistance that may be ...

We are developing and validating a camera-based compensation classifier ("3C") for tele-neurorehabilitation to distinguish normal arm movements from those with compensation. The algorithm can be used with a webcam alone or in combination with an inertial measurement unit (IMU). This method improves ...