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2/2022

Overcoming Crises

No crisis lasts forever

Crises frequently serve to trigger creativity and innovation. But anyone who is in the throes of a crisis – or is even experiencing several crises at once – might not view things quite so optimistically. With our Dossier theme for this issue, we want to show how experts and private individuals set about looking for solutions and go on to find them.

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- Interview
- Main Topic
Overcoming crises: solidarity helps others and ourselves

Does de-escalation always result in peace? Are we setting the right priorities in terms of ecology and economics? What can we do to tackle individual crises? Three ZHAW experts discuss ecological, economic, social and personal crises.
Interview Patricia Faller
30.06.2022
- Main Topic
After the war comes the reform

Even if Ukraine manages to emerge as an independent state from this war, the country will still be faced with major challenges. Not only will it have to make a start on rebuilding, it will also need (...)
Ümit Yoker
30.06.2022
- Main Topic
Risk assessment: like taking a look in the crystal ball

Can pandemics and wars be predicted? No, says ZHAW data scientist Pasquale Cirillo. He knows the mistakes made by those who can’t get by without forecasts and the traps that they fall into. And he (...)
Ümit Yoker
30.06.2022
- Main Topic
Putting a stop to lies, hatred and misleading information through artificial intelligence

The Centre for Artificial Intelligence at ZHAW is conducting research into tools for automatically detecting problematic content on the internet. These tools are aimed at helping platforms decide (...)
Thomas Müller
30.06.2022
- Main Topic
Food – between territorial production and the bioreactor

Agricultural prices are skyrocketing. The UN is warning of the threat of a hunger crisis due to the war in Ukraine. That would be the third hunger crisis in 15 years. The food system requires urgent (...)
Tilo Hühn
30.06.2022
- Alumni
Mediator between two worlds

She gets role models moving and keeps IT running. Since graduating in Business Information Technology, Kim Fuchs has been working as a service delivery manager at Migros. Through her Bachelor’s (...)
Elena Ibello
30.06.2022
- Panorama
New Education Unit: “For a culture of lifelong learning”

New professional requirements, changes on the job market and increasing digitalisation – ZHAW has developed its new lifelong learning strategy to ensure the continuous development of its students in (...)
Interview Thomas Schläpfer
30.06.2022
- Editorial
Illusion and reality

Everyone wants a long life but no one wants to get old. Despite this, we take a look at growing old in the Dossier section of this web magazine. The ageing society is, after all, a reality. The term (...)
PATRICIA FALLER, Editor in Chief
31.03.2022
- Interview
- Main Topic
“Old age should be regarded as a valuable resource”

Ageing is both multifaceted and multi-layered, says Katharina Fierz, project manager of the Applied Gerontology focus area at ZHAW. In this interview, she talks about the greatest challenges and (...)
Interview Patricia Faller
31.03.2022
- Main Topic
When our bodies age

Why do our bodies age and how can we slow down the processes involved? These are questions occupying both researchers and the anti-ageing industry. The aim is to live out the last years of our life (...)
Irene Bättig
31.03.2022
- Main Topic
A new post-stroke therapy: virtual apple picking

Game-oriented methods can make post-stroke therapy both motivating and measurable. ZHAW researchers have developed a new form of therapy that uses augmented reality and a dynamic chair.
David Bäuerle
31.03.2022
- Opinion
- Main Topic
Is a flexible retirement age the answer to everything?

Alongside raising the retirement age for women and increasing the rate of VAT, introducing a flexible retirement age is one of the key components of the “AHV 21 reform” approved by parliament. Not (...)

31.03.2022
- People
He’s both a midwife and a lawyer

From Tenerife, via England and Austria, to Winterthur: Jonathan Dominguez Hernandez has spent time in many different places all over Europe. And his professional career has been no less varied. Since (...)
Carole Scheidegger
31.03.2022
- Study
Future Kids: combining studies with social commitment

Doing good and receiving ECTS points in return: the Future Kids mentoring programme gives ZHAW students the opportunity to pass on their experience and knowledge in a playful manner. The programme’s (...)
Fabienne Trümpi
31.03.2022
- Editorial
Staying international, going intercultural

Knowledge travels for free. So, universities have long been forerunners and shining examples of internationalization. Linguae francae such as Latin or, more recently, English have enabled scholars (...)
Daniel Perrin
04.12.2021