Information Technology (IT) has fundamentally changed many aspects of our lives and it will continue to do so at an ever-increasing pace. As most people use this technology without even understanding its most basic concepts, our information society faces a new problem: digital illiteracy. What does it mean to process information? How can you best → more…
Archives for 2014
Academia Engelberg: Food Security
This year’s Dialogue on Science of Academia Engelberg dealt with the topic of food security. From October 15 to 17 2014, around 180 participants discussed how disponibility, access and consumption of foodstuffs can be secured. The world’s population will grow to over eight billion over the next 20 years. How should they all be fed when → more…
IT Life Sciences : this Century’s Challenges
Genetics and Biotechnology promise a future of unprecedented health and prosperity. Personalized genomics and health data management will change diagnostics, gene therapy could cure many diseases, growing organs for transplantation in the lab might be possible and GMOs might increase food security. This prospect will build many opportunities, but will also generate challenges for human → more…
Four Young Swiss Are Starting an International Fellowship Year
The Mercator Fellowship on International Affairs starts with four new Swiss fellows into its sixth program year: Maximilian Stern and Julia Stricker from Zurich, Loredana Sorg from Tagelswangen/Lindau (ZH) and Fabian Urech from Burgdorf (BE) were selected for the program year 2014/2015. Press release (in German): → PDF…
States and Societies in Transition – History Threats and Opportunities
The Case of Georgia and Armenia 2014. Are Georgia and Armenia a part of Europe and the Western World? How do these countries cope with their rich, but also challenging history and the risks and chances that they encounter in the present world? And can the comparative study of these small states give us any → more…
2013 Annual Report
The 2013 annual report is available. In addition to the financial statements of 2013, you will not only find the names of all currently supported students and active volontaries, but also statistics on origin, place of study as well as grade averages of our students. The different portraits of fellows, volontaries, awardees, as well as reports on → more…
Swiss Study Foundation Alumna Goes to Norway
Francesca Verones, alumna of the Swiss Study Foundation, becomes associate professor at the Department for Energy and Process Engineering at the University of Trondheim in Norway. Francesca Verones was recommended to the Swiss Study Foundation by her high school in Berne and was accepted to the mentoring program in 2004. She actively took part in weekend seminars, summer → more…
