All projects from the School of Life Sciences and Facility Management
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Local Food System Challenges
A variety of economic, ecological and social challenges are calling our current food systems into question and demanding a transformation. Two perspectives are essential for the transformation of sustainable food systems: The food system perspective - this integrates the entire value chain from production to ...
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Emerging AI and computing technologies
In the Oasis project, we demonstrate how neuromorphic technology -- Intel's research chip Loihi 2’s -- can be used for assistive humanoid robot used in a smart city environment. Neuromorphic hardware and software support development of applications featuring low-latency real-time sensory processing that enables ...
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Make-or-buy Decision Textile Supply
Development and comparison of scenarios for textile supply.
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ZHAW Summer School for HealthTech Innovators
Planning, promotion and realisation of the 3rd ZHAW HealthTech Summer School according to the Stanford Biodesign innovation approach: 2.5 weeks in July with clinical immersions in three different medical application areas to develop disruptive Digital Health, DTx and MedTech solutions.
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ActinOmics: bioprospecting and genomics of actinobacteria isolated from the Marchica lagoon
The massive and excessive use of antibiotics in medicine has led to the emergence and spread of multi-resistant pathogens, rendering treatment with the usual antibiotics ineffective. Added to this phenomenon of antibiotic resistance is the emergence of new infectious diseases, often zoonotic, in humans. Hence the ...
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ACTS - Agroforestry Carbon Token System
Agroforestry has significant benefits for climate change mitigation and sustainable agroecosystems. For its valorisation as climate protection project, a new carbon certification scheme that allows continuous accounting of the CO2 removed by biomass carbon on a blockchain system is developed. ...
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BioDeTox - Microbial reduction of zearalenone, a grain-relevant mycotoxin
Wheat is one of the world's most important staple foods and offers high nutritional value, especially as a whole grain. Especially with crops such as wheat, food safety faces a major challenge due to mould infestation: an estimated 25 % of all crops worldwide are infested with moulds, including species that form ...
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Computational Thinking Education for Diversity and Inclusion (CoTEDI)
This Erasmus+ project aims to identify, develop and implement a new common methodology for the application of computational thinking (CT) in a variety of educational settings with a focus on teacher professionalisation and student empowerment. Special attention will be paid to inclusion criteria, special educational ...
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Innovative Immunotherapy Approach
The goal of this project is the synthesis of peptide loaded nanoparticles.
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Stability of self-organizing net fragments as inductive bias for next-generation deep learning
We recently released "A Theory of Natural Intelligence", proposing a possible key to the emergence of intelligence in biological learners. Goal of this fellowship is to develop a technical implementation of the concept of self-organizing netfragments within contemporary deep artificial neural nets. ...
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Farm to Table in Toni Areal
The “Farm to Table” project, an initiative of the ZHAW, ZHdK and ZFV, explores the sustainable transformation of the dining hall offering with a comprehensive approach that includes seasonal, regional and balanced food options. This four-week project carried out on the Toni-Areal campus includes a detailed ...
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Integration of water and nutrient cycles in the renovation of a single-family detached home
Although today's drinking water and sanitation system is an achievement from a hygiene perspective, it is not optimal from an ecological and resource-efficient perspective. The building owner Rüegg is planning to renovate a single-family home. In addition to the energy renovation, the water system should also be ...
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Novel phage derived antimicrobials
Novel, patentable bacteriophage-based precision antimicrobials are generated. To minimize the risk of failure at the pre-clinical stage, in vivo activity screening in zebrafish embryos is combined with process development, continuous evolution, and phage engineering during early stages of discovery. ...
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Production of Clean Meat using edible scaffolds
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Climate Rating for Real Estate Portfolios
To address climate and regulatory challenges for Swiss Pension and Real Estate funds, this project aims to create transparent, technology- and data-driven methods for evaluating Swiss Real Estate assets in terms of obsolescence, carbon emissions (current and forward-looking), and energy efficiency using large data ...
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Augmented Reality Outdoor Mission "Escape the fossils"
With the Augmented Realitiy (AR) outdoor mission " Escape the Fossils", we want to create awareness and communicate our current research on energy transitions. It will specicially target students from 12 years. For this reason supporting material will be developed. The project partnership between the institute of ...
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Nowcasting water toxicity using information fusion and maschine learning
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ADSC isolation by pure mechanical means
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Drone Signal Dataset
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Maximizing the Benefits of Organic Fertilizers: A Data-Driven Approach to Improve Efficiency and Reduce Pollution
The project aims at assessing the use of soil enzymatic activity to improve the use efficiency of nitrogen in agriculture to fulfill environmental goals and climate targets. We work together with ETH spin-off Digit Soil who already developed a device measuring on-site biological activity, an important soil process ...
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Evaluation of modification in aerospace regulations using generative artificial intelligence models
Creation of a proof of concept for innovative analytics for aerospace compliance using machine learning.
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Novel method for geosmin reduction using probiotics in aquaculture
Novel method for geosmin reduction using probiotics in aquaculture: Upcycling of waste nutrients (backwash slurry of drum sieve filter) to biofloc which will further increase water quality by further nitrification process and simultaneously degradation of the above mentioned off flavor substances by the Genus ...
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Stroke DynamiX
Stroke DynamiX explores data-driven stroke management using machine-learning techniques in a consortium of statistics researchers, translational enablers, and clinical partners. We implement statistical tools to dynamically model stroke epidemiologically and predict real-time sepsis onset in the clinic. ...
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Automatic individualization of mathematics tasks
In this project, the exercises provided to the students are to be automatically individualized. For this purpose, the exercises and exams solved by the students are analyzed and theand the missing competences will be identified. This approach should generate exercises optimized for each student and therefore provide ...
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Construction kit online didactics
Due to the limited resources of rooms and the increased demand for offers of part-time study, the online part of teaching and the quality of e-learning didactics in online courses are becoming more and more important. In the project "Building Blocks for Inspiration in Online Didactics", lecturers from diverse ...