All projects from the School of Management and Law
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Practically-oriented modelling of competency frameworks
A competency framework is a matrix defining competency-oriented objectives for study programs. Simply put, it is designed to highlight what students are supposed to be able to do after they complete their studies. Competency frameworks form the basis for a differentiated assessment of students’ professional, ...
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ExpAct
As part of the European research project, a standard software was developed for the easy and rapid implementation of skills assessments and mediation platforms for older people.By recording the experiences of older people, transparency is created on the labour market about the unused experience and human capital. If ...
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Impact of EU-labour law an international labour law on Swiss labour law
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Multi-Dimensional Versioning for Information Systems
In this project, we identified challenges and designed solution approaches for implementing a line based version control system to manage object-oriented data. The system was developed to bring typical features of version control systems (VCS) such as branching, diffing and merging to the world of structured, ...
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Accounting and Financial Reporting for Intergovernmental Organizations
The European Southern Observatory (ESO), an inter-governmental astronomy organization which is currently supported by 15 Member States (MS), aims to construct the E-ELT, an extremely large optical telescope. To finance this project, ESO would potentially depend on a long term loan. Hence respective frame agreements ...
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Business Valuation
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Comprehensive Sales Forecasting for Supply Chain Optimization in Food Industry
The main objective of the project was a significant improvement of sales forecasting algorithms with an application focus on food industry and retail, where food waste and stock-out situations are challenging for the planning process. The main product of the project is an intelligent planning software, whose ...
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Cooperational platform for urban logictis
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BI Survey
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TARPSY
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Multi-Asset Investment Process using Bayes Ensembles of Trading Models
Since 2009, low interest rates and asset purchases by central banks are severely distorting investment opportunities and trends in financial markets. The performance of active investment strategies decreased substantially since then. This project aims to provide an investment process that finds the optimal ...
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SpeQua - Community Energy Storage System
Energy storage systems will play a cengtral role in the future smart regions with a high penetration by renewable energy sources. IN this project, different energy storage systems were investigated, compared, characterized and simulated in a realistic simulation scenarios of a AEW smart region in Rheinfelden. ...
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Visitor Study Swiss Science Center Technorama
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Regional Cultural Strategies in the Cantons of St. Gallen and Thurgau
Preparation of a short report with analysis of the following organizational aspects: achievement of the cultural strategic objectives, task and organizational analysis, use of the instruments of the public relations work, process analysis of contributions, mission statement and performance order. Methods: Desk top ...
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Towards Smart Energy Regions: Exploring Future Energy-Systems
In support of the development towards smart energy regions, this project wants to explore integrated transition approaches on the demand and supply side, evaluating the most promising elements from behaviour change programmes, business initiatives, policy strategies, measures, and technologies at regional level. ...
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Energy Policy Analysis Group / SCCER CREST
The Energy Policy Analysis Group was set up by the Center for Public Commercial Law as an interdisciplinary research team affiliated with the Swiss Competence Center for Research in Energy, Society and Transition (CREST). It deals with economic and legal aspects of energy provision at a domestic and an international ...
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Modelling the operative costs of a new ICU
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Public Financial Management Reforms in Colombia
Supporting the World Bank (WB) in evaluating Public Financial Management and the current accounting policy in Colombia in strong cooperation with the "Contaduria General de la Nación" (CGN). Analysis of current financial management software and accounting processes, as well international comparative studies on ...
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SCCER CREST
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SCCER-FURIES PHASE I
The main research challenge is to build a realistic technical model of the Swiss energy system including the transmission systems, which model can be used for planning, operation, and economic evaluation of the system. This model must comprise: location of renewable generation and the limited predictability of ...
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Backward participation in global value chains and exchange rate driven adjustments Swiss exports
The sharp appreciation of the Swiss Franc and its ongoing strength despite the exchange rate peg that the Swiss National Bank introduced in 2011 (and lifted in 2015) have raised fears about negative export growth and resulting losses for Swiss exporters. From an economic perspective, a temporary currency ...
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Job-Stress-Index
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Social Media for Education
In our research [www.somecat.org] we analysed how students and instructors use social media for teaching, learning and research. Social media use is ubiquitous in most students’ everyday live; many also use it for learning purposes. It is obvious that study behaviour/ habits/manners of today’s students – most of ...
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Thesis Writer: A Web-based Learning Environment to Support Dissertation Projects (BA, MA and Doctoral Theses)
Scientific writing is a, and perhaps the key competence one acquires during tertiary education. Not only students who acquire this skill, but also lecturers who teach writing for higher education are confronted with a series of challenges. A new web-based learning environment, based on applied research, is ...
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Cost of non communicable diseases in Switzerland