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…

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…  

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…

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…