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Reorientation: Hello future

It rarely comes voluntarily. Sometimes it sounds promising, sometimes it masks a cost-cutting programme, and most of the time it is somewhat uncomfortable: reorientation.

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    Green Finance Ratings: With Artificial Intelligence, instead of a guessing game

    Is a stock or debenture sustainable? There’s a whole host of ratings and labels that provide this information. But the criteria are vague, the classifications often inconsistent. ZHAW Zurich (...)

    • Thomas Müller
    04.12.2021
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    Keeping arable land fertile thanks to radio information

    Smallholder farmers in Africa very rarely make use of methods to keep their soil fertile. Researchers  of ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences are looking for new ways to bring this knowledge to (...)

    • Judith Raupp
    04.12.2021
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    Brewing sustainable beer with hemp instead of hops

    Currently, the flowers of hemp grown for industrial use are simply thrown away.  Researcher of ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences Amandine André wants to use them to brew beer – and to help (...)

    • Mathias Plüss
    04.12.2021
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    ZIPAS: When students treat sick people by themselves

    At the Kantonsspital Winterthur, trainees and students from several healthcare professions jointly manage two patient rooms. The ZIPAS training model increases their awareness of vital (...)

    • Eveline Rutz
    04.12.2021
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    Narratives of food and how they influence us

    Food has been shaping culture since the existence of humankind and is increasingly becoming props for self-definition and self-staging: "You are what you eat." What is urgently needed, however, is to (...)

    • Gisela Hühn and Tilo Hühn*
    04.12.2021
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    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.

    25.10.2021
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    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 (...)

    • Bettina Sackenreuther
    25.10.2021
    • 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 (...)

    • Interview Sandra Hürlimann
    25.10.2021
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    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 (...)

    • Sandra Hürlimann
    25.10.2021
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    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 (...)

    • Sibylle Veigl
    25.10.2021
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    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 (...)

    • Eveline Rutz
    25.10.2021
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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 (...)

    • Eveline Rutz
    25.10.2021
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    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.

    • Contributed by Tilo Hühn
    25.10.2021
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    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 (...)

    • Ümit Yoker
    25.10.2021
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