Previous Issue: zhaw-impact

Openness and new funding instruments

Working together to achieve more by pooling knowledge makes perfect sense. But how does the research community need to rethink its approach to accomplish this? Two ZHAW researchers with extensive experience in interdisciplinary collaboration share their perspectives.

Interview: Sara Blaser

02.06.2026

1/2026

[Translate to Englisch:] Eine Drohne steht auf einer Rasenfläche

Main Topic

The future of AI takes off in Winterthur

Autonomous systems are developing at a rapid pace. However, a lack of operational experience is delaying their use in practice. The LINA project aims to remedy the situation.

Sara Blaser

02.06.2026

A physiotherapist and a patient are doing exercises

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Innovation through exchange

In neurological rehabilitation, therapists are required to make decisions on an ongoing basis. ZHAW researchers are developing an AI system intended to support clinical decision-making in the future.

Tobias Hänni

02.06.2026

A group of students is sitting around a table

Main Topic

Practice-oriented learning in the global classroom

In international interdisciplinary projects, business students acquire key practical skills, including how to think in an agile way and how to deal with uncertainty.

Eveline Rutz

02.06.2026

People

«Without media freedom, there is no democracy»

Guido Keel, Head of the ZHAW Institute of Applied Media Studies, spent a year as an advisor on media freedom at the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in Vienna.

Seraina Sattler

02.06.2026

Editorial

Interdisciplinary collaboration: diversity in the toolbox

«If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail», observed the American psychologist Abraham Maslow. We are inclined to tackle challenges using methods we are already (...)

02.06.2026

Opinion

Planetary Health Episode 10: Nutrition as a Service: Health begins at the dinner table

What if health didn't begin at the bedside, but at the dinner table? “Nutrition as a Service” (NaaS) is more than a technological concept.

Gisela Hühn and Tilo Hühn

01.06.2026

Main Topic

AI and the great rethink

What does studying actually mean when AI can now deliver answers to every conceivable question? One thing is clear: learning objectives and examination formats will have to change.

Tamara Ritter

08.12.2025

Editorial

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.

08.12.2025

Main Topic

Endolysins: a new weapon against superbugs?

Antibiotic resistance is putting our health at risk. Researchers are therefore looking for alternatives – and are also turning to some unusual allies: enzymes from viruses that specifically destroy (...)

Susanne Wenger

08.12.2025

Study

Reaching for the stars

As part of the Academic Space Initiative Switzerland (ARIS), students from several Swiss universities are independently developing systems for scientific space flight. A visit to the hangar.

Sara Blaser

08.12.2025

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Turning old into new

More than 500,000 tonnes of flat glass are discarded in Switzerland every year – even though glass is an ideal material for recycling. A pilot project is now aiming to prove that flat glass can be (...)

Sara Blaser

08.12.2025

Main Topic

Lentils and beans instead of forage maize

Our traditional diet is putting pressure on the climate, water and soil. ZHAW researchers are investigating how more plant-based foods can be grown on Swiss fields.

Andrea Söldi

08.12.2025

Opinion

Planetary Health Episode 9: Regulated metasynthesis – How the law can shape disruption

The legal system faces the challenge of guaranteeing stability while enabling profound transformations. In the face of disruptive innovations such as alternative proteins, artificial intelligence, and (...)

Gisela and Tilo Hühn

01.12.2025

Editorial

Natural and artificial

It seems to be part of human nature to constantly want to improve ourselves and our environment. This ambition has made our lives more comfortable in many ways. At times, however, we overshoot the (...)

06.06.2025