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 ...

Development and testing of a digital learning assistant that counteracts the dwindling information literacy. Learning processes that adapt to individual needs not only serve to impart knowledge, but also promote independent knowledge acquisition.

The eCH association promotes, develops and adopts standards in the field of e-government for efficient, electronic collaboration between public authorities, companies and private individuals. The eCH association is planning various activities to anchor its standards more firmly. One measure is the development of a ...

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.

The eCH association promotes, develops and adopts standards in the area of eGovernment for efficient, electronic collaboration between public authorities, companies and private individuals. On behalf of eCH, the Institute for Information Systems at the ZHAW School of Management and Law investigated the need for ...

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.

The Swiss Online Retailer Survey 2022 is the fifth online retail survey the first author has conducted. A total of 625 online retailers participated in it, including business-to-consumer (88%), business-to-business (43%), and direct-toconsumer (13%) companies. In addition to 496 Swiss retailers, 109 Austrian online ...

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 ...

Agrivoltaics (APV) is a promising approach to produce renewable electricity and agricultural goods on the same piece of land. It therefore contributes to defusing land-use conflicts. Besides electricity production, APV creates favorable microclimates with a reduced dependency on irrigation and mineral fertilizers. ...

In 2014, the School of Management and Law at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) launched FLEX, a blended learning format that offers students more flexibility in when and where they want to learn. FLEX reduces classroom learning time by about half and provides a digital learning environment for ...

The project addresses land use planning of an island nation in the context of climate change, economic use of natural resources, and ecosystem conservation and protection. This project will develop and test a serious game for participatory landscape planning in São Tomé and Príncipe. The goal is to: (I) understand ...

Quality of sleep has an impact on mental and physical health and thus on general well-being. several factors that influence sleep quality exert their effect in the hours before falling asleep. Activities that promote or hinder sleep quality during this time are commonly subsumed under the term "sleep hygiene". ...

Logobject is interested in addressing the question: for every illegal incident detected, how many illegal incidents are left undetected? The research partners at ZHAW develop a novel statistical method to estimate the dark rate of illegal activity. Logobject will use this method to provide their customers with ...

NLP &ML tools for Swiss asset managers and owners for identifying inconsistencies in companies’ financial and non-financial communication

This project aims to develop a quantified and scalable decision model for sustainable corporate financing. Findings from various sub-disciplines of finance and financing practice are to be integrated into an overall model. At the same time, a validation with capital market data is to be implemented so that the model ...

In this project we use generative deep learning methods (GANs and VAEs) to produce realistic astronomical mock-observations of numerically simulated astrophysical objects, as they will be obseved by the Square Kilometre Array Telescope (SKA). This project contributes to the Swiss-wide activities for SKA of the SKACH ...