Problem:Fairtrade producers in developing countries often have a stable business model and substantial growth opportunities. Due to the missing or insufficient finance infrastructure in the respective countries, Fairtrade producers do not have the opportunity to realize their growth opportunities. Although some ...

Individual and collective action is an important driver of energy consumption in households. In Social Power Plus we aim at directly engaging teams of neighbouring households to raise their awareness and promote active energy sufficiency measures (electricity and heating). To support this process, we launch living ...

Our innovative idea is to provide a Proof of Concept concerning a superior and adaptive rating system applicable to both SME and personal lending, able to cope with low-quality, sparse data that is commonplace in the context of P2P lenders. If successful, we will have both a new methodology (how to deal with ...

Commissioned by the Swedish Energy Agency, Perspectives and Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) studied the volume and origin of Certified Emissions Reductions (CERs) that are still on the market, looking into information in the various national registries and the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) registry. ...

Autonomous Flying Robots – From the Lab to the Industry

Insurers are expanding their business model by placing more importance on services, distributing via platforms, increasingly collaborating in networks and developing the capability for data-driven offers. What do these developments imply for the priorities, role and profile of the future risk management function? We ...

The aim of the project is the development of a dynamic map of the supply region Winterthur. The map should depict the supply and use of health services in important dimensions (e.g., patient flows, health status and health behavior of the population). The dynamic map should serve as basis for answering important ...

In contrast to common video or telephone conference systems (e.g., MS Teams, Zoom), immersive virtual meetings provide for a digital space in which the participants can do more than just see and talk to each other. Additionally, they can move and engage in more complex forms of collaboration, e.g., manipulating ...

Matching impact investors with vetted and investable impact deals (SDG firms), through a regulated liquid primary and secondary financing market, presents a significant opportunity for SWISOX to become a “one-stop-shop” for impact investors. The research goal is to develop the necessary tools for a robust pipeline ...

Idéesport, a Swiss foundation with 50 employees and 200 part-time positions, has initiated an agile transformation with the aim of fostering the development of new services and products. The aim is not only to introduce agile teams and agile working methods, but also to work as a fully agile organization (based on ...

This project addresses the topic “Digitalisation and Automation principles for ATM”. Exploring the effect of, and opportunities for, distributed humanmachine situational awareness in en-route ATC operations is one of the main objectives of this project. Instead of automating isolated individual tasks, such as ...

The identification of optimal Sustainable Investing strategies is still hampered by a profusion of technical and methodological challenges. We propose to utilize patent data and AI to boost Green Finance to a new level of efficiency in mitigating global threats as climate change, and pollution.  ...

What role does IT management play in digitalization, and with what impact on organizational culture? In the Corona crisis, we observe that IT provided necessary solutions for contactless teaching "overnight." How did it accomplish this? Which cultural dispositions were critical to succeed in this respect? And what ...