Carmen Forrer
Carmen Forrer
ZHAW
School of Life Sciences and Facility Management
Institute of Natural Resource Sciences
Work at ZHAW
Position
Scientific assistant research group Geography of food
Focus
- Methods: Social Network Analysis
- Valorisation of mountain areas in Europe
- International collaboration and co-organisation of an international virtual course
Experience
- Scientific internship research group Geography of Food
ZHAW
10 / 2022 - 03 / 2023 - Service staff member
Restaurant Schiwago Zurich
08 / 2018 - 03 / 2022 - Chief Cook
Sea Shepherd Global
07 / 2021 - 08 / 2021 - Internship Nutritionist
School Medical Service of the City of Zurich
09 / 2015 - 06 / 2016
Education and Continuing education
Education
- MSc Environment and Natural Resources / Agroecology and food systems
Zurich University of Applied Sciences - ZHAW
09 / 2020 - 08 / 2022 - BSc / Nutrition and Dietetics
Bern University of Applied Sciences
09 / 2012 - 08 / 2016 - Specialised Maturity Certification / Health
Cantonal School Wattwil
08 / 2011 - 07 / 2012
Network
Membership of networks
- 51st Annual Conference of the Swiss Society for Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Sociology (SGA) "Transformation of agricultural and food systems - sustainability and digitalisation of value chains"
- 21st Swiss Geoscience Meeting 2023
Awards
SVIAL Prize 2022
SVIAL - Swiss Association of Agricultural and Food EngineersSVIAL - Swiss Association of Agricultural and Food Engineers
09 / 2022
Social media
Projects
- Developing a farmers’ happiness index with smallholder coffee and tea farmers in Sri Lanka and India / Team member / laufend
- MOVING – Mountain Valorization through Interconnectedness and Green Growth / Team member / abgeschlossen
Publications
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Forrer, Carmen,
2024.
In:
Mountain Valorisation through Interconnectedness and Green Growth (MOVING) Project Scientific Conference, Cordoba, Spain, 19-21 March 2024.
Available from: https://www.moving-h2020.eu/event/moving-scientific-conference/
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Forrer, Carmen; Veith, Claudia; et al.,
2023.
In:
SGM 2023 Abstract Volume 21st Swiss Geoscience Meeting.
21st Swiss Geoscience Meeting, Mendrisio, Switzerland, 17-19 November 2023.
Swiss Academy of Science : Platform Geosciences.
pp. 541-542.
Available from: https://geoscience-meeting.ch/sgm2023/wp-content/uploads/abstract_volume/SGM_2023_Symposium_18.pdf
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Forrer, Carmen,
2023.
Zusammenarbeit im Berggetreideanbau in Graubünden.
In:
51. Jahrestagung der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Agrarwirtschaft und Agrarsoziologie (SGA) «Transformation der Agrar- und Ernährungssysteme – Nachhaltigkeit und Digitalisierung von Wertschöpfungsketten», Lindau, Schweiz, 21.-22. April 2023.