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Mandate Smart City Switzerland
The «Smart City Switzerland» programme announced by the Swiss Federal Office of Energy promotes Swiss cities and municipalities on their way to becoming a smart city. The aim is to involve more Swiss cities in the Smart City Community by the mid-2020s and to support them in triggering a Smart City process. The ...
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Mastering Accessibility of Open Educational Resources
This project is part of a wider swissuniversities initiative called “Swiss Digital Academy”, which deals with open educational resources and open educational platforms. The specific goal of the project “Mastering Accessibility of Open Educational Resources” is to provide knowledge of accessible open educational ...
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METAVEH - Metamaterial Enhanced Vibration Energy Harvesting
This project aims at realising innovative Lead-free electromechanical energy harvesting systems based on metamaterial wave focussing capacity; these will be easily transported, and installed, to power, in a clean and low-cost manner, autonomous wireless sensing devices thereby eliminating batteries and ...
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Operational Staff Planning 2021
Operational Staff Planning 2021
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Pay Per Use Benchmark Study in the Industry
To investigate opportunities and feasibility of Pay Per Use business models for industrial goods, the project team conducted benchmark interviews with leading Swiss and German B-2-B companies on the current state of Pay Per Use business models to identify challenges, hurdles, drivers, trends and best ...
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PhD Program in Data Science
Understanding effective and ethical ways of using vast amounts of data is a significant challenge to science and society as a whole. Data Science encompasses such activities and is therefore inherently interdisciplinary and applied. ZHAW is an early mover in the field of Data Science. Since 2013 ZHAW has been ...
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Result Chains Studio Kalangou Niger
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RRI-Leaders: Leveraging Leadership For Responsible Research and Innovation in Territories
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School misallocation of Refugee children?
Statistical data show that in Switzerland, including the canton of Zurich, children with a migrant background are disproportionately likely to learn in special education, separative or integrated settings. Using qualitative interviews, the educational history of 6 individual cases of children and adolescents who ...
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ShopHero
The research collaboration ‘ShopHero’ proposes a novel, scalable and tailored approach for consumers (1) to track and monitor the sustainability of their groceries and food waste, and therefore, (2) to change their behavior. We plan to process automatically-collected digital receipts from grocery purchases ...
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Smart City Frauenfeld
For years, the ZHAW has been supporting cities and municipalities on their way to becoming Smart Sustainable Cities and the associated solution approaches. With the specially created ZHAW Smart Cities & Regions platform, the ZHAW is pooling its relevant expertise and experience across institutes. Against ...
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Smart Learning Spaces for Students
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SNF Ambizione Evaluation
Membership of the Ambizione Evaluation Commission Mathematics, Natural and Engineering Sciences of the SNSF. The SNSF's Ambizione grants are aimed at young researchers who wish to carry out, manage and lead an independently planned project at a Swiss university. The instrument aims to promote researchers from ...
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Square Foot Project
The grasslands of Central Europe are habitats of great ecological and economic importance whose biodiversity has declined drastically due to human influence. Using a globally unique dataset of historical vegetation records, the Square Foot Project aims to quantify this transformation over more than a century and ...
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Study on the barriers and Drivers of the decarbonisation of industrial processes (SERENDIP)
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Suicide attempts in young LGBTQ+ in Switzerland – contexts and help-seeking: A grounded theory study
Background Lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans youth (LGBT youth) are more frequently affected by suicidal behaviour than the heterosexual and cisgender population. In Switzerland, however, there are no studies that could instruct suicide prevention for LGBTQ+ adolescents within the framework of the national suicide ...
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Swiss Payment Monitor 2021/22
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What international negotiators promise and domestic policymakers adopt
The goal of the Paris Agreement to keep global warming well below 2°C can only be reached if countries commit to and adopt ambitious climate change mitigation action. However, we often witness a gap between international commitments and the policies and instruments aimed at implementing them domestically. ...
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Childhood vulnerability and children’s understandings of well-being
All people are vulnerable, but vulnerability is unequally distributed - some people are more vulnerable than others. What this means for children and youth and how they understand well-being is the goal of the qualitative SNF research project. Background Social work often deals with children and youth who ...
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Renal anemia in patients with chronic kidney disease in Switzerland: Epidemiology, treatment and costs
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a disease affecting the structure and function of the kidney. CKD is associated with a substantially higher risk of death, mainly due to cardiovascular disease, and substantially lower health-related quality of life. Renal anemia is a frequent complication of CKD. The objective ...