08.05.25

Professionalization of Content Marketing and Controversies Surrounding AI

Two-thirds of all Swiss companies actively use content marketing and are seeing a professionalization of this field. At the same time, larger companies are increasingly integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into their content processes. However,…

05.05.25

Swiss Managers Survey: TARIFFying

The 6th edition of the ZHAW survey examines how Swiss companies are responding to the volatile business environment.

29.04.25

Spur of the moment: why young adults turn to e-scooters at night

According to the latest accident statistics, some 86 percent of serious e-scooter accidents are self-inflicted. The main cause: alcohol. The e-scooters’ riders are often young adults. Why is it that they decide to use e-scooters at night despite…

15.04.25

Mind over market? New study reveals how cognitive abilities explain price bubbles

In a controlled laboratory experiment, economists demonstrated that two mental abilities – analytical thinking and the ability to assess the behaviour of others – play a key role in how people react to identical market information. The combination of…

24.03.25

MDPI Sensors paper on wireless time synchronization published

"Nanosecond Time Synchronization over a 2.4 GHz Long-Range Wireless Link" by Pascal Müller, Dominic Berger and Luciano Sarperi.

17.03.25

IMES wins 3 EELISA Projects

The Institute of Machanical Systems has won 3 EELISA Projects for 2025:

18.02.25

Follow-up project with the Research Association for Drive Technology (FVA)

The approach developed for modelling the lifetime of POM gears is being generalised in the follow-up project which has just started.

10.02.25

Visit from Japan at the Institute of Computational Life Sciences (ICLS)

A project by ZHAW will be part of the World Expo 2025 in Osaka, Japan. On February 4, the Centre for Cognitive Computing had the opportunity to present the project to WIRED Japan magazine.

21.01.25

Microorganisms provide essential vitamins for legumes

Natural microorganisms can enrich plant-based foods such as yellow peas with vitamin B12 and other vitamins through fermentation, as successfully demonstrated by a successful ZHAW research project.

31.10.24

New Employee at the Center for Arts Management: Dr. Małgorzata Ćwikła

Dr. Małgorzata Ćwikła joins the ZKM team as a researcher in the ‘Culture goes sustainable’ project from 1st October 2024.

31.10.24

New employee at the Center for Arts Management: Dr. Laura Johanna Noll

Dr. Laura Johanna Noll joins the ZKM team as Senior Researcher and Executive Education Lead from October 1st, 2024

10.10.24

The social dimension of living cultural traditions

Since 2023, researchers from the ZHAW, the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), the Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences (FHV) and the Konstanz University of Applied Sciences (HTWG) have been investigating implicit practical knowledge with…

30.09.24

ZHAW researchers develop hybrid cell tissue for medical research

In the EU “Bio-HhOST” project, researchers from the ZHAW School of Engineering are working together with Cardiff University and the University of Trento, among others, to develop novel, biohybrid organoids that can be used to analyse biological…

15.08.24

Generative AI: from the experimental phase to established application

Around a year and a half after the introduction of ChatGPT by OpenAI, the transformative effect of so-called generative artificial intelligence on communication departments and agencies cannot be overlooked. The results of the ZHAW’s 2024 trend study…

13.08.24

The Center for Arts Management and Dampfzentrale Bern have completed the first comprehensive wage study for the independent cultural scene in Switzerland

Supported by Migros Culture Percentage's m2act funding and networking project, the Center for Arts Management investigated the development of working conditions and wages in the Swiss independent cultural scene on behalf of Dampfzentrale Bern.

07.08.24

IEEE International Conference on Electronics Circuits and Systems: Paper Accepted

“Efficient Depth and RGB Camera Fusion Algorithm for Depth Imaging with Improved Spatial Resolution” will be presented by Yannick Wälti at the ICECS 2024 conference to be held in Nancy, France from Nov 18 – 20, 2024.

26.06.24

Several modes of transport instead of just your private car: what potential does active mobility offer in Switzerland?

Many journeys completed by private car could be replaced by active forms of mobility, often in combination with sharing services and public transport. The ActiveAll project, headed up by ZHAW mobility researcher Andrea Del Duce, is therefore aiming…

26.06.24

ZHAW researchers are supporting the development of a ceramic implant system for the optimised treatment of cruciate ligament ruptures.

An innovative implant solution provides for a new method for the treatment of cruciate ligament ruptures. The process sees a bone-like, ceramic implant connected to the bone using a resorbable plastic implant liquefied with ultrasound, thus fixing…

04.06.24

ZHAW helps unravel some of the universe’s greatest mysteries with generative AI

Switzerland is part of the Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO), an international organisation that is building two of the largest radio telescopes in the world. The Swiss consortium for the SKAO (SKACH), comprised of ten Swiss institutions,…

06.05.24

Successful first flight of the AVIRIS-4 spectrometer (a.k.a. CWIS-II) over Zurich

On Feburary 29, 2024, AVIRIS-4 has been tested in the air and spectral data of the city of Zurich has been successfully acquired.