To avoid grid congestion and optimize their operation, positive energy districts (PEDs) need to adjust their loads to the local renewable production. We plan to develop approaches and algorithms that help them to do so. This project is a research contribution to the Positive Energy Districts European Network, a ...

The aim of the LANTERN proposal is to co-design, test, validate, and scale up a portfolio of interventions for a user-empowered, decarbonized, resource efficient and sufficient Switzerland. We will achieve it through applied research and development at the interface between markets, technology, policies, and ...

After surveying staff, faculty, and students, we found an interesting relationship between organizational culture and business-IT alignment at ZHAW. This project aims to show what it looks like two years later, after a rollercoaster ride of corona measures, online and hybrid forms of lectures, exams, and research, ...

Background: Digital transformation constitutes one of the most important innovations at the local level of government and is expected to reshape local service delivery, public administration, and governance in Europe fundamentally. Most recently, the COVID-19 pandemic has shown the fundamental importance of a ...

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

DaDFiR3 pursues the vision of a system for automated regulatory financial reporting that uses financial contract-level data combined with market data to automatically produce the analyses required for internal and external oversight.   Content and objective We will deploy an ICT infrastructure that provides a ...

Gossik - The Productivity Assistant for the Young & Ambitious

The project includes the development and implementation of a training course for a leading provider of further education in the financial sector. The content of the course covers the entire topic of sustainability in credit financing. The focus is on the mortgage and corporate lending business. The project includes ...

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

The Data Storytelling Guide is designed to support finance professionals working in the public domain to translate facts, numbers, and expert knowledge into understandable and relatable stories. It presents PFM specialists with a menu of options to realize their communication project by offering tips, tricks, and a ...

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

The project goal is to drive digital transformation by creating a communication tool for privacy policies, which puts the user perspective at the centre of its design. While the legal perspective (GDPR) cannot be neglected, we focus on transparency towards the user. We will create a visual label that provides the ...

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 ...

Study on security of supply in the electricity sector. Support in modeling the appropriate generation and system capacity (system adequacy) in Switzerland in the electricity sector.

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 design thinking projects are carried out as part of the elective modules "Design Thinking" in the Master in Business Administration with specialization in Marketing and "Customer Centric Innovation" in the Master in Business Administration with specialization in Innovation and Entrepreneurship. The projects aim ...

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 ...