Of more than 14,000 foundations found in Switzerland, around one in four provide funding in the area of research and development in accordance with their stated purpose. ZHAW researchers also work successfully on application-oriented projects on behalf of foundations.
You can find details of our foundation-funded projects further down on this page. If you have any questions about the ZHAW and its collaboration with foundations, Manuel Bamert from the Research and Development / Business Service Unit will be happy to help.
You can also find further information on foundations throughout Switzerland under the following links:
- Foundation directory of the Federal Department of Home Affairs (FDHA) (in German, French and Italian)
- SwissFoundations – Association of Swiss grant-making foundations (in German and French)
- Current news from the foundation sector in the blog for research and development (in German)
- Center for Philanthropy Studies, Universität Basel – interdisciplinary research and executive education institute, specialized on the non-profit sector
ZHAW-projects funded by foundations
-
Care quality in nursing homes: a best practice example
In many countries people over 85 years of age are relocated involuntarily or unplanned to a nursing home. In Switzerland 43% of elderly over 85 years are admitted to nursing homes after hospital discharge. This percentage is higher than in the United States with 32.5% or in Germany with only 19%. Therefore, the aim ...
-
Overcoming Language Barriers in Homecare Nursing (OLBiHN)
-
family counselling
-
Dynamic in vivo profiling of DNA damage and -repair after ionizing radiation
-
Model-based optimisation of combined anti-cancer therapy with heat and radiation (HT-RT)