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The Opendata.ch 2020 Forum will explore New Data Narratives, diving in deep collaborative work, and aiming high!

swissuniversities has adopted a new transformative pilot agreement with Elsevier for research access and Open Access publishing in Switzerland.

The Policy Briefs of the Swiss National COVID-19 Science Task Force are now available on its website. They reflect the Task Force thinking on a topic at that time and will be updated in the light of new studies or other data. 

Gestern Donnerstag haben 25 Forschende aus der Schweiz den Bundesrat aufgefordert zur Linderung der Corona-Epidemie "einschneidende ...

This report shows the results of a survey conducted in spring 2019 among all people who received a PhD in political science from a Swiss university during the last eleven years (2008 to 2018) and among postdocs working in a Swiss university in June 2019. Thus, this survey sheds light on the experiences and career paths of both postdocs and doctors in political science who left academia. Moreover, it compares the results regarding postdocs with a similar study carried out in 2012.

The Swiss National Science Foundation is testing a new CV format for researchers applying for project funding in biology and medicine (submission deadline 01 April 2020).

Swiss scientists fear a number of political obstacles could block their path into the EU's next big research programme.

A hugely successful research system is being tested by a dispute over immigration and a deteriorating relationship with the EU.

The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) announced on Wednesday that it is allocating several million Swiss francs to research on coronaviruses.

The Swiss Federal Council has renewed Martin Vetterli's term as president of Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), upon the recommendation of the ETH Board. The professor of communication systems will therefore lead EPFL for a second four-year term that will begin on 1 January 2021.

Swiss government orders inquiry after revelations Crypto AG was owned and operated by US and German intelligence.

Resources compiled by swissuniversities to address questions that UK researchers and students on mobility programmes within Swiss higher education institutions will be confronted with after the Brexit.

The main points developed by Edward Snowden during his speech at the Applied Machine Learning Days at EPFL. In the second part of his speech, the American answered questions. The main part of this interview are also reported.

CO2-​neutral synthetic fuels are technically feasible today and the best promise for decarbonizing aviation. The right policy instruments could turn promise into reality, writes ETHZ professor.

The city of Zurich published data sets of attractions, destinations, restaurants and accommodation that can be freely reused under a CC BY-SA license.

Green parties have made major gains at the expense of parties across the political spectrum in elections to the Swiss parliament, where environmental concerns dominated campaigns in the run-up to Sunday's vote.

Factsheet presenting the issues and recommendations surrounding open access to scientific literature and data in Switzerland and Europe.

Sie sind die neunzig Prozent, die den akademischen Betrieb aufrechterhalten: Berichte aus dem Inneren eines Systems, das aus der Perspektive des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses so nicht länger funktionieren darf.

Swiss university has signed San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment, which says academics should not be judged on the journals they publish in

Hundreds of thousands protest against ‘culture of sexism in everday life’.

Thanks largely to the strong performance of ETH Zurich, the Swiss university system has entered the top three globally in the latest QS rankings.

OPINION. Matthias Egger, président du Conseil national de la recherche du FNS, plaide pour que les textes scientifiques aient droit à une seconde publication. Une version en libre accès pour le bien commun

Swiss universities fear losing out on the European Union's "Horizon Europe" science research funding pot.

Intelligent data science approaches are changing science, the economy and society. In a new interdisciplinary initiative, ETH researchers from the fields of mathematics, computer science and information technology are therefore increasingly dedicating themselves to the foundations of data science.

Thousands of school children and university students across Switzerland skipped class on Friday to march in the streets and demand climate action, telling politicians "There is no planet B".

Today, the Future Circular Collider (FCC) collaboration submitted its Conceptual Design Report (CDR) for publication.

Der Mobbingfall an der ETH Zürich veranlasst den neuen Präsidenten Joël Mesot zu einer Massnahme.

For the last 12 years, I have had the pleasure and privilege to serve as the Director of the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag) and as a professor at the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology (ETH) Zurich and Lausanne (EPFL). My affiliations have afforded me a rare opportunity to observe the structure and governance of academic institutions and to reflect on my own experience in institutional leadership. I have attempted to place my experience in the context of the literature on leadership, particularly that relating to women and academia. On the basis of my experience and reading, I make some recommendations for women faculty, for women in positions of institutional leadership in academia, and for academic institutions. I am deeply convinced that greater participation by women (and members of other under-represented groups) in institutional leadership is needed if academia is to make a meaningful contribution to addressing the huge challenges that face humanity.