24.08.16

White paper identifies risk of false incentives in power grid financing

Self-consumption of photovoltaic electricity is being cross-subsidised with the current grid usage tariffs. Combined with private storage systems, this could have a negative impact on the efficient expansion of storage and grid infrastructure. A…

23.08.16

Climbing Challenge: Gamification in a climbing gym

The Aranea+ climbing gym in Schaffhausen introduces the innovative Climbing Challenge, which allows sport climbers to record their performances, collect points and compete against each other. The system, developed by the ZHAW, uses wireless RFID…

27.07.16

Research project helps clarify responsibilities at all-day schools

The city of Zurich is to open five all-day schools as a pilot project in August 2016. In conjunction with this, the ZHAW and the PH Zurich will conduct a project to study how pedagogic responsibilities should be distributed among education…

22.07.16

A systematic approach to eliminating hazards

Before companies place a new product on the market, they must ensure it does not pose any intolerable risks to humans or the environment. In order to do so, they carry out hazard and risk analyses. Researchers at the ZHAW School of Engineering are…

12.07.16

IAS PhD student Norman Juchler receives Latsis student award

IAS PhD student Norman Juchler wins second place in the student award at this year’s Latsis symposium.

01.07.16

Winterthur households save energy thanks to app

In the Social Power project, households in Winterthur and Ticino tried out a fun way to reduce their power consumption using a game app and Smart Meters. In three months, the participants reduced their energy consumption by 5 per cent on average,…

01.07.16

Higher light output with organic light-emitting diodes

Research activities at the Institute of Computational Physics at the ZHAW School of Engineering include work on organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). In collaboration with partners, researchers are developing high-efficiency flexible OLEDs and…

07.12.15

UAS Zurich to export Continuing Education in Nursing to China

The number of elderly people in China is increasing rapidly and as a result the number of people who suffer from dementia too. China, like Switzerland, lacks appropriately trained nursing staff. By exporting a continuing education programme in…