The 2018 annual report is available. In addition to the financial statements of 2018, you will not only find the names of all currently supported students and active volontaries, but also statistics on origin and place of study of our students. The different portraits of fellows, volontaries, awardees, as well as reports on different events, which → more…
Archives for 2019
Doing good and doing it well – an introduction to the Effective Altruism community and methodology
How can we use our resources to help others the most? Effective Altruism (EA) started in 2011 as a group of people wanting to use their money and careers to do as much good as possible. Unable to find satisfying answers, their ideas have developed into a network of organizations and individuals across the globe, → more…
IT Debating Tournament of the Swiss Study Foundation
«For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.» US author and businesswoman Margaret Heffernan Debating is a vital tool of communication as it fosters the exchange of competing views and ultimately propels ideas and innovation in society. The IT «Art of Debating» has benefitted from a resounding success among the → more…
IT The Art of Debating
Do you think that you have quite a settled opinion on a matter and nevertheless happen to run into dead-ends during a discussion at times? Do you often find yourself playing the devil’s advocate to reach the bedrock reasons for defending a certain position? Are you interested in a broad range of topics and yet → more…
Winterakademie: Planning for Health Development – Tanzania in Context
What are the challenges of the Tanzanian public health system, a representative country for health planning under resources constraints? What are the socio-political preconditions and how do they differ compared to the Swiss situation? What impacts have changes in society under these resource constraint conditions? We will discuss these complex questions on site with leading → more…
