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Stemming the academic brain drain

This content was published on Aug 18, 2015 Immunologist Salomé LeibundGut-Landmann says she has two families: her two small children and her lab team. She has made a success of academia, at an age when many of her peers have left it all together.

Swiss Broadcasting Corp., Swisscom and Ringier to collaborate

This content was published on Aug 17, 2015 Marc Walder, CEO of Ringier, said the aim was “to offer a strong Swiss alternative to globally operating companies, develop innovative new forms of advertising and strengthen the Swiss advertising market to keep the value added in Switzerland”. “In the past year, Google and Facebook alone achieved a market share in the region of 50%…

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If you want the Olympics, do not ask the people

This content was published on Aug 17, 2015 “And the winner is … Beijing.” This summer’s announcement by the president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Thomas Bach, of the hosts of the 2022 Winter Games was met around the world by a large sigh. Staging the world’s biggest winter sports event in a smog-ridden megalopolis without any snow and a record of…

Bellinzona’s fortifications through the ages

This content was published on Aug 17, 2015

Country-wide nuclear shutdown due to repairs

This content was published on Aug 17, 2015 On Sunday night the Gösgen nuclear power plant was taken out of service to investigate and repair a steam leak in a non-nuclear turbine loop. In order to carry out the repairs the company said the plant component had to be disconnected and cooled. After repairs have been made and the parts fully checked over…

4th place for Swiss at World Skills Championships

This content was published on Aug 17, 2015 For the first time since 2001, Switzerland failed to place in the top three countries overall at the World Skills Championships, held August 11-16 in São Paulo, Brazil. But with 13 medals in 38 categories they were clearly the best European team. The competition, which takes place every two years, is the biggest vocational education…

Freedom and responsibility in university research

This content was published on Aug 16, 2015 Ezekiel Emanuel is drinking tea at a table in a small library in Basel. A former health advisor for the Obama administration, he has spent almost eight weeks as a guest professor at the University of Basel’s Institute for Biomedical Ethics. Back home he heads the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the…

Minister wants to boost support for SMEs

This content was published on Aug 16, 2015 He also plans to continue aid for export-oriented small and medium-sized companies (SMEs). In June, Schneider-Ammann instructed the Commission for Technology and Innovation (CTI) to waive the requirement for a cash contribution for R&D funding applications for heavily export-oriented SMEs with effect from this August. “Now we plan to stock up the CTI’s grant funds,”…

Tent-dwelling intern sought media attention

This content was published on Aug 16, 2015 The New Zealander who made headlines last week for living in a tent during his unpaid UN internship has admitted that there is more to his story.

Citizen participation takes root in the village

This content was published on Aug 16, 2015 At the end of May, some 30 people met in the parish hall of a municipality of some 7,000 inhabitants situated on a hillside in the Lake Geneva region. They were responding to the call of a movement born one month earlier and baptised Mount Citizen: Democracy – Solidarity – Ecology. The goal of the…

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