How can people remain at the center of the medicine of the future when a lot of data is brought together, chatbots act as coaches and digital twins support prevention and therapy? Author: Claudia M. Witt Artificial intelligence (AI) will become part of medical care – but how far should… Read More »AI in medicine – knowledge is in demand
Starting signal for the next round: From now on and until January 15, 2023, new and prospective doctoral students of UZH can apply for a place in the Excellence Program. This year, the DSI will again award scholarships. The Excellence Program is a complementary curriculum to a doctoral program. The program… Read More »DSI Excellence Program
https://youtu.be/xHk13Y_MTBM What happens when you cross educational institutions with videogames? Serious games! In other words, games that not only provide entertainment, but also convey information or education. On November 17, the five Zurich universities demonstrated in the Nüü, the event space for digital transformation of the ZHAW, using self-developed games,… Read More »Gaming for Good
The second UZH Innovathon, organized by the UZH Innovation Hub and the Digital Society Initiative, has successfully concluded. The events of the course took place between Sept. 14th and Oct. 25th with an Innovathon weekend where students could intensely focus on their work in the Ginetta co-working space. Nine ambitious student teams… Read More »Innovathon 2022: The Digitalization of Mobility
This article was first published on the ZHAW Digital Futures Lab blog. The interview was conducted by Johanna Seiwald (ZHAW digital). Congratulations Dr. Lilach Goren Huber for winning the Best Presentation Award and DIZH fellow Dr. Jürg Meierhofer for the Best Paper Award at the Swiss Conference on Data Science (SDS) this year! The SDS is… Read More »And the Awards go to … Smart Services and Predictive Maintenance
For the fourth time the DIZH Fellowships are awarded to outstanding ZHAW researchers who will work in cross-university research clusters on interdisciplinary digital transformation projects . Since the first call in 2019, a total of 35 fellows have been selected so far. The seven new fellows will start their projects from January onwards in… Read More »Artificial intelligence, art, biotechnology and more: 7 new fellowships
The Zurich Centre for Creative Economies (ZCCE) is an international centre of excellence dedicated to research, teaching, incubation and consultancy in the field of the creative economies. The ZCCE researches and analyzes the topics «Cultural Policies», «Art & Design Careers», «Digitalization», «Smart Cities», «Entrepreneurial Strategies» and «Criticism & Theory». Central… Read More »Current data on Creative Economies
Making has infinitely many faces, which were also evident in the program of the symposium “Making&more: shaping learning together”. Digitization and the associated changes in the world of work require versatile competencies: from digital design and the acquisition of a flexible and informatic mindset to an affinity for tools and… Read More »Symposium “Making&more: shaping learning together”.
Beneath the surface of the global tech industry The exhibition Kamituga | Digital Gold which was originally created for the exhibition Planet Digital at the Museum für Gestaltung (February to June 2022) will be showcased in an adapted version during the Festival Zurich meets Berlin. From November 3rd to 7th 2022 projects from ETH, University… Read More »Kamituga | Digital Gold @ Zurich meets Berlin
What might an arts university look like in 2035? What is futures thinking? The ZHdK Digital Council provides insights into its 2022 thematic focus, with which it is already working on the visions of tomorrow. Futures thinking takes shape at ZHdK. Illustration: Kati Rickenbach SYLVIA BATTEGAY___ The year is 2035… Read More »Thinking into the future