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Call for proposals: Founder Call

Support for innovative start-up ideas The DIZH innovation program promotes entrepreneurial projects in the context of digital transformation. The Founder Call provides targeted support for early start-up ideas from employees and students at DIZH universities. The Founder Call offers low-threshold start-up funding to develop an initial proof of concept from… Read More »Call for proposals: Founder Call

New podcast episode on Smart Cities

What makes a city livable? How can technology help conserve resources and drive sustainable urban development? In this episode, our hosts Frank Richter and Jessica Reust talk to Vicente Carabias-Hütter from ZHAW about the concept of Smart Cities. It’s not just about digital solutions but about intelligent approaches that make… Read More »New podcast episode on Smart Cities

Five years of DIZH

Five years ago today, on April 1, 2020, DIZH began operations. The Management Board has been meeting regularly since 2019, including on April 1, 2020 for the operational launch of DIZH and now, exactly five years later, once again. A fitting occasion to draw a positive interim balance. DIZH has… Read More »Five years of DIZH

Public Data Lab: Find out more now

Every day there are developments that influence our lives: new forms of work, rising rents, the energy crisis, the climate catastrophe and much more. But how can these changes be recorded and understood in order to make informed decisions for the future? The Public Data Lab is a joint project… Read More »Public Data Lab: Find out more now

BioVaR – Enabling Accountability

How can biodiversity loss and water scarcity be measured and attributed to the companies that cause these impacts?  The Spatial Sustainable Finance research project explores this question with an innovative, data-driven approach. Multidimensional biodiversity and water information using satellite data from different geographical regions is collected and enables the measurement… Read More »BioVaR – Enabling Accountability

LINA: A test infrastructure for autonomous systems and unmanned drones

The LINA project is presented in the “Mitteilungen” magazine of the ZHAW Graduate Engineering & Architecture (E&A) department. LINA is a structure funded by the innovation program for the safe testing of autonomous systems. The aim is to test AI-supported drones and other autonomous technologies under real conditions, both indoors… Read More »LINA: A test infrastructure for autonomous systems and unmanned drones

Listening Recommendation: AI Visual Language and Political Aesthetics

How do AI-generated images influence political communication? And why does the far right make particularly frequent use of artificially created visual worlds? Roland Meyer, DIZH Bridge Professor at UZH and ZHdK, discusses the ideological and aesthetic affinity between right-wing politics and generative AI in two recent podcast episodes. Tending to… Read More »Listening Recommendation: AI Visual Language and Political Aesthetics