Building global bridges – what does that mean for you?

This is what the ZHAW-Impact university magazine wanted to know from members of the ZHAW Executive Board and students. Read the answers here.

• Interview

“We need both the real world and the virtual one to produce quality work together”

Daniel Perrin, Dean of the School of Applied Linguistics and Head of International Affairs, regards the coronavirus crisis as an opportunity for sustainable and new forms of collaboration. He explains (...)

• Study

What we should already learn today for the world of tomorrow

How can young people be prepared to help shape society? What does it take during uncertain times to rise to challenges? An interview with Executive Board member Reto Steiner, the ZHAW linguist Liana (...)

• Main Topic

Explaining and understanding artificial intelligence made easy

What is “artificial” and “intelligent” about technology? For people outside this field, it is often difficult to understand how artificial intelligence works. ZHAW researchers are developing methods (...)

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• People

The brain as a code machine

Ricardo Chavarriaga is a ZHAW researcher working on the interface between the brain and machines. As Head of the CLAIRE Office Switzerland, he also wants to promote connections between the European AI (...)

• Research

Research in the area of finance is international

Jan-Alexander Posth, a senior lecturer at the Centre for Asset Management of the ZHAW School of Management and Law, gained new perspectives and ideas for his research and a better understanding of the (...)

• Research

Exchanges at university and innovation hotspots with Swissnex

The ZHAW-Swissnex staff mobility programme provides tailor-made exchange opportunities with important international university and innovation hotspots. This is important for research and the (...)

• Opinion

Open Science and its strategic importance at and for ZHAW

Open Science stands for more accessibility, transparency and reproducibility of research results and processes. It should help advance scientific progress, increase research quality and visibility, (...)

• Study

Of wildebeests, lions and the complexity of the world

Humans tend to think linearly, but the world is complex: in the future, even more skills will be required in our professional and everyday lives to deal with complex developments and influence them (...)

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• Study

COIL – overcoming the confines of one’s own culture through virtual collaboration

Working on something virtually with students from a different culture and moving forward together. This is what Collaborative Online International Learning is all about. The importance of virtual (...)

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Interculturality: Learning across borders

Certified international experience and intercultural competences boost a student’s chances of finding a job with their dream employer. ZHAW sets out to sharpen the international profile of its (...)

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• Opinion

The (dis)informed society

We are practically on the way from the age of information to the age of disinformation. The importance of experts is getting lost in view of the wide range of experiences available online.

• Alumni

«I am always on the lookout for new challenges»

André Bruggmann is a Geospatial Solutions Expert and Co-CEO of Crosswind, a consulting company in Location Intelligence. The Graduate of ZHAW has just completed his Master’s thesis at the School of (...)

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• Research

The language code as a barrier

The requirements placed on migrants’ language skills have become much more stringent in recent years. These requirements do not necessarily reflect everyday language needs, but are rather an (...)