24.12.18

What makes bread taste good?

Not many ingredients are needed to bake delicious bread, but they need to be of top quality, according to Prof. Michael Kleinert, Head of the Institute of Food and Beverage Innovation at the ZHAW and a passionate bread expert.

19.12.18

Youth’s purchases of mobile phones worse for the environment than their use

If young people in Switzerland were to use their phones one year longer, this would reduce the impact on the environment by 25 per cent. ZHAW researchers have calculated that the production of a mobile phone accounts for 77 per cent of the…

07.12.18

SNSF-Sinergia project on antiviral drug discovery at the ICBT

The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) has granted a Sinergia project entitled "Morbillivirus cell entry machinery: mechanisms, structures and drug discovery".

06.12.18

Mobile communications network could make drone use safer

Unmanned aerial vehicles are an increasingly common feature of our skies, but until now they have not been registered or otherwise identified. Infrastructure for mobile communications could be used to integrate drones into the Swiss airspace. This is…

06.12.18

Switzerland’s Word of the Year 2018 selected

Doppeladler, charge mentale and gesto dell’aquila are Switzerland’s Word of the Year 2018 in German, French and Italian. They reflect what the public was concerned with and talking about during the year. ZHAW researchers used the largest Swiss text…

19.11.18

Two new doctoral graduates at the Institute of Physiotherapy

On 12 November 2018, the Institute of Physiotherapy celebrated the graduation of two new doctors of physiotherapy. Jeannette Saner and Christoph Bauer spent four to five years investigating research questions on the topic of nonspecific low back…

12.11.18

TEDD Community News November 2018

Summary of the current activities, events, news from Partners and more

07.11.18

Revigo – Revolution in out-patient rehabilitation

If rehab robots are easily available and accessible at any time, 1000 paralysed people can learn to walk again – that’s 1000 people per year!

06.11.18

Extremism among young adults: agreement with ideology is more widespread than propensity to violence

According to a study conducted by the ZHAW and the HETS-FR (Haute École de Travail Social Fribourg), young adults in Switzerland are more likely to agree with the ideologies of extremism than to be in favour of extremist violence. At 7 per cent,…

16.10.18

Social media in Swiss organisations: More strategic, paid online presence and influencers

Today, social media is one of the key instruments in organisational communication. Nine out of ten companies are actively present online, a growing number not only on a trial basis but also with a strategic approach. YouTube is at the top of the…

09.10.18

TEDD Community News October 2018

Summary of the current activities, events, news from Partners and more

04.10.18

Interim Report NFP 70 Project "The Future of Swiss Hydropower"

The Interim Project Report of the NFP 70 Project "The Future of Swiss Hydropower" can be accessed here.  Further information can be found here. 

04.10.18

Data protection - Swiss companies still have a long way to go

In Swiss companies, there is a discrepancy between rights and reality regarding data protection, as a 2018 study conducted by the ZHAW shows. According to the study, SMEs hardly ever provide enough resources, and 70 per cent of the surveyed companies…

02.10.18

Interim report on the NRP 70 joint project «The Future of Swiss Hydropower»

The interim report on the NRP 70 joint project «The Future of Swiss Hydropower» is available here.For further information, please click here. 

12.09.18

Will raising the retirement age lead to health inequalities?

In many Western countries, there is an ongoing public debate about increasing the retirement age and about sustainable pension schemes. ZHAW researcher Isabel Baumann is investigating whether increasing the retirement age also leads to health…

10.09.18

Fresh TEDD News September 2018

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05.09.18

How can we connect with older migrants?

The connections formed by ‘guest workers’ are based on transnational networks. With this generation now at retirement age, a new approach seeks to rethink the term ‘integration’.

04.09.18

New Publication on CR Reporting

In its latest issue, the journal Sustainability Management Forum has published an article by the Center for Corporate Responsibility on sustainability reporting.

23.08.18

Digital linguistics project about implications of machine learning turn approved

The Swiss National Science Foundation will finance the Research Epistemologies in Text-Based Digital Humanities project by Prof. Noah Bubenhofer (Digital Linguistics, ZHAW) in cooperation with Dr. Berenike Herrmann (DHLab, University of Basel). The…

14.08.18

Debit Card Beats Cash

The most popular means of payment in Switzerland is now the debit card (Maestro, PostFinance, or V PAY). It is considered user-friendly, practical, and trustworthy, and therefore preferable to all other payment methods.