All projects from the School of Life Sciences and Facility Management
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Foodscape.ch
Agricultural production, consumption, trade of food, etc -- the Swiss food system is as complex as it is central to our daily lives. Our food supply has a greater impact on the environment, economy and society than almost any other area of life. And yet we are not very familiar with the structures and mechanisms ...
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Local Water Loop
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Preservation of Central Asian fruit tree forest ecosystems from bacterial pathogen Erwinia amylovora (fire blight)
Fire blight is a severe bacterial disease of apple and pear that can quickly destroy whole orchards. In the last few years it arrived also in Central Asia, where pomaceous fruit plants represent the dominant species in mid-altitude forests and constitute a critical foundation for the entire ecosystem. Fire blight is ...
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The Coffee Blockchain – From Field to Cup
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Validation of crude and mineral oil life cycle inventory datasets
ESU-services Ltd. has updated the Life Cycle Inventory models for crude and mineral oil products. Before the Life Cycle Inventory models are implemented in the KBOB database v2.2:2016 of the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN) and the Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE), it is necessary to validate ...
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Behavioral Design for Sustainable Development
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InnoBUN - Development and application of a multifunctional sourdough in buns
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MinION2FixID: fast and reliable legume root nodule bacteria identification using nanopore sequencing technology
Rhizobia are bacterial symbionts associated with legumes that are of paramount importance for the fixation of atmospheric nitrogen in the soil. The success of this process (and ultimately the performance of the plant) depends on the type of root nodule bacteria, which should be adequate to each plant species. The ...
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Regionalised Agricultural Life Cycle Assessment
The start-up financed project is a research cooperation of the research groups Life Cycle Assessment, Geography of Food and Geoinformatics for the development of a competence focus "Regionalised Agricultural LCA". The feasibility of a regionalised life cycle assessment will be examined with regard to technical and ...
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Bringing Real Estate Portfolios on a Climate-Friendly Track
With the entry into force of the Paris Climate Convention of the United Nations on 4 November 2016, the coun-tries of the world have set themselves the ambitious goal of limiting global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius, or better still below 1.5 degrees Celsius compared with pre-industrial levels. If the ...
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Implementation of aquaponic technology in Kunming, China: Construction of prototype for cultivation of fish and vegetables
This project proposes to introduce the Aquaponic technology (AP) to China’s urban population. The objective is to devise AP systems suitable for efficient food production on smallest surfaces, which will be implemented in urban areas. Two solutions should be developed: (i) a prototype greenhouse facility for the ...
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MOSTCH4: Mini Onsite System To valorize manure in methane
In the project MOSTCH4; Mini Onsite System To valorize manure in methane, a miniaturized fermentation system for farmyard manure and other agricultural residues is being developed in cooperation with SUPSI, the University of Applied Sciences for Technology and Architecture of Southern Switzerland and the company ...
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Workplace Concept for industrial maintenance
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Frequentist estimation of the evolutionary history of sequences with substitutions and indels
High throughput sequencing technologies have permitted a wide range of scientists to observe an astonishing molecular diversity across all domains of life. Since all observed molecular sequences area result of a long evolutionary history, most informative inferences can be made only when analysing genomic sequences ...
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Market power in Swiss food value chains
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Intellishaker
Integrated Bioprocess Development Solutions for Shaken Cultures: Eurostars-Project: E!11795. The consortium will develop a unique product that offers a cultivation success quarantee for shake flask cultivation to the user. The System consists of an Internet knowledge database for parallel bioprocess development in ...
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Microbiome therapeutics
Development of a novel two-step process for the production of next Generation microbiome therapeutics. We will develop an innovative, two step production technology for consortia of strict anaerobic gut bacteria. This will be the first GMP grade, large scale production process in the gut microbiome field, resulting ...
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Sustainability incubator
Sustainability should not remain an abstract buzzword. Using innovative communication methods, with interactions between the population and research and with opportunities for open dialogue is to be brought to life in the incubator on Campus Grüental. There, the population has the opportunity to inform themselves, ...
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Water balance in the area Sur Chaunt Blais, St. Moritz
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Soil Garden
A new garden on the topic of soil ecology is to be created on the Grüental campus in order to promote fascination and appreciation for the natural resource soil. The garden is designed as a mysterious place that arouses curiosity and lets visitors literally immerse themselves in the ground. In it the various ...
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Standard Modules for FM Contracts
Many building owners today outsource real estate management services to property managers and building operations services to facility service providers. The cooperation between client and operator is regulated in “FM contracts". In these, energy efficiency is often not a requirement. This may be one of the reasons ...
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Know-How Transfer und Collaboration with Smiling Gecko Cambodia
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BISTOM - Bayesian Inference with Stochastic Models
In essentially all applied sciences, data-driven modeling heavily relies on a sound calibration of model parameters to measured data for making probabilistic predictions. Bayesian statistics is a consistent framework for parameter inference where knowledge about model parameters is expressed through probability ...
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Novel Antimicrobials for Life-Threatening Infections
Deaths due to antimicrobial resistance are alarmingly high, novel therapies are urgently needed. Here, novel antifungal compounds are developed against life-threatening infections. The compounds will be developed to preclinical proof-of-concept in a collaborative medicinal chemistry program. ...
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Standardized Room Categories in Hospitals (RakaS)