All projects from the School of Life Sciences and Facility Management
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COST Action – Rethinking packaging for circular and sustainable food supply chains of the future (CIRCUL-A-BILITY)
Food packaging is designed to protect the food through its supply chain, communicate to customers, and to ensure food quality, safety and optimal shelf life. Progress is now needed to secure its circularity, minimize food waste and improve sustainability. CIRCUL-A-BILITY aims to go beyond the state of the art by ...
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Aurora Smart Light System
AURORA is the working title for a highly efficient smart plant cultivation lamp system. The self-engineered electronics and state of the art software allow for fully adaptive and reproduceable light spectrum ranging from deep UVC to far infrared. The individually configurable app allows precise customization of the ...
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Biocatalytic halogenation for the sustainable development of agrochemicals
The biological activity of agrochemicals is often modulated by the introduction of halogen atoms. To develop sustainable processes for the regio- and stereoselective halogenation of abundant bio-renewable starting materials, the development of tailored biocatalysts is targeted.
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Dynamik Knowledge Platform
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PhageFire – An effective and environmentally friendly solution to control fire blight disease caused by Erwinia amylovora in pome fruit crops
The PhageFire project is devised to satisfy the unmet need for a secure and reliable solution to control fire blight (FB) disease in pome fruits caused by the bacterium Erwinia amylovora (Ea). The Spanish pome fruit producer, Peras de Rincón de Soto has partnered with Enviroinvest (Hungary) consultancy company ...
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Trans-omic approach to colorectal cancer: an integrative computational and clinical perspective
Colorectal Cancer (CRC) is an important cause of cancer-related mortality world-wide. The Consensus Molecular Subtypes represent the first comprehensive molecular classification with clinical implications, but many aspects are still missing. We use a transomic approach to improve the stratification, prognosis, and ...
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ValPar.CH – Values of the ecological infrastructure in Swiss parks
Commissioned by the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN), the interdisciplinary research team of the ValPar.CH project analyzes social, economic and environmental values of the ecological infrastructure in Swiss parks of national importance, assesses its potential development pathways and examines which ...
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Predicitve Waste Management for SBB Train Stations
We develop a system to optimize the waste collection and disposal on SBB's train stations. The new system will use a container fill level sensor network, a novel waste accumulation forecasting algorithm, and state of the art methods for simulation-based tour-planning.
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Density of green coffee beans
Develop experimental method of measure the real density of green bean (ZHAW)
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HistoRiCH: Historical river change – Planning for the future by exploring the mapped past
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Local Colours – Industrial Natural Dyeing based on plant dyes from waste
The Local Colours project aims to sustainably dye local textiles with natural dyes from local plant waste or plants. The sustainable dyeing of textiles on an industrial scale is the core of the project, which uses the advances in chemistry without depleting fossil resources. The aim is a circular economic approach, ...
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MOVING – Mountain Valorization through Interconnectedness and Green Growth
MOVING aims to build capacities and co-develop policy frameworks across Europe for the establishment of new or upgraded and upscaled value chains, contributing to resilience and sustainability of mountain areas, valorising local assets, and delivering private and public goods. In this framework, the ZHAW team treats ...
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Thermoplan - Nachweis Marker-Verbindungen Milch
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Detection of drone signals
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Alternative Monitoring of Spotted Wing Drosophila SWD
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Cocoa in Numbers – from data to knowledge
Nowadays consumers of cocoa and chocolate products are not only interested in safe high-quality products but also in products which are sustainable and produced under fair ecological and social conditions. The demand for transparency of information on the condition of cultivation, production and trade as well as on ...
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CarbonVALUE
Hydrothermal carbonisation HTC of sewage sludge under high pressures and temperatures causes the carbon compounds in the sludge to be converted into biochar. This carbon can be used both as an energy source and materially as a soil conditioner or as a substitute for fossil carbon products. Compared to the ...
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Development of a web-based food frequency questionnaire
The aim of this study is to develop a web-based food frequency questionnaire (eFFQ-CH), using the menuCH photo book and the framework of a food frequency questionnaire developed at ZHAW Wädenswil (the ZHAW FFQ). The development work will follow a unique approach based on the results of the menuCH Survey, the first ...
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Development of a validated questionnaire for the assessment of sleep quality based on a cosmetics line
The aim of this project was to develop a care product that demonstrably improves the quality of life. This forms the basis for a new innovative product group in the personal care sector. In use, the pilot product's formulation, texture and novel combination of active ingredients (neurofragrance) demonstrated a ...
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Molecular mechanism of bacteriophage tail spike proteins in bacterial infection
Antibiotic resistance in pathogenic microorganisms is rapidly increasing worldwide which urgently calls for novel agents and innovative solutions for the treatment of bacterial infections. Bacteriophages (phages) infect and inactivate bacteria in a highly specific manner. Therefore, exploitation of phages represents ...
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NanoPAT – Process Analytical Technologies for Industrial Nanoparticle Production
Nano-scaled materials are abundant in different stages of industrial manufacturing. Physical and chemical properties of these materials are strongly dependent on their size. Characterisation of mean size, size distribution, and shape of nano-scaled particles is very critical for the quality and efficiency of ...
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Prototypes for the Sustainable Digitisation of University Teaching
The COVID-19 Pandemy has forced higher education into fast forwarding their digitisation across the board. This creates valuable and relevant information for the sustainable digitization beyond the crisis mode. The project structures evidence-based digital teaching exsperiences and digital competences at the ...
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AFBioPro - Prozesstechnologische Optimierung von Schutzkulturen
Protective cultures find broad application in various food product classes, yet mostly on an empirical basis without systematic optimization. This project is dedicated to the evaluation of process-technological means to enhance the performance-critical features of protective cultures, while taking into account ...
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Post-harvesting of cocoa in Ecuador: Set-up of farmers' and suppliers' trainings
Based on different fermentation approaches, which are accompanied by comprehensive process recordings (microbiological-chemical-physical), a training for cocoa farmers and suppliers in Ecuador is being developed. The training will be continuously verified and expanded.
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Healing architecture in mental health-care facilities
Systematic literature review on users’ health & well-being in inpatient mental health-care facilities.