Nel 2025, l’esperimento 'Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment' (DUNE) prenderà il via nel nord degli Stati Uniti d’America, vi lavorano i fisici che aspirano a conoscere meglio il neutrino – la particella elementare ancora misteriosa. Una componente importante dell’esperimento DUNE è in costruzione all’Università di Berna.

Si rien ne change, les objectifs de développement durable des Nations unies ne pourront pas être atteints. Et le monde scientifique est également sur la sellette: comme le demande le premier rapport sur le développement durable dans le monde, la recherche visant des solutions concrètes doit être intensifiée. À travers une initiative, la SCNAT souhaite donc renforcer la recherche en développement durable en Suisse.

Die Wissenschaft muss sich umorientieren. Um die vielschichtigen globalen Herausforderungen anzugehen, braucht es sowohl wissenschaftliche Gewissheit als auch einen gesellschaftlichen Konsens - ob wir zum Beispiel eine Energiewende wollen und wie wir diese gestalten, sagt KFPE Präsident Thomas Breu im Interview mit der NZZ am Sonntag.

The Food Systems Caravan is a 8 weeks itinerant and digital and media caravan which brings the main messages of r4d Food Security research projects to diverse institutions and the general public in the West African countries of Mali, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Benin and Nigeria.

From the review it emerged that, while donor interventions can influence LMIC research systems, their positive impact is often short-lived unless activities align with national priorities and are defined alongside national stakeholders

Michał Rawlik, scientist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ) is awarded the CHIPP Prize 2019. The 29-year-old researcher receives the award for his doctoral thesis on the electric dipole moment of the neutron. The experiment he co-developed could one day help answer the question of why there is much more matter in the universe than antimatter.

Postdoctoral training is a critical element of building Africa’s population of researchers. The continent needs to develop its capacity for globally competitive postdoctoral training, as this is essential to promoting scientific and research excellence and leadership. Young early career researchers from the continent face four main challenges.

Der Bund will die Entwicklungshilfe anders ausrichten. Doch die neue Strategie erntet Kritik von verschiedenen Seiten. Die Akademie der Wissenschaften moniert, die Bekämpfung der Armut und die Nachhaltigkeit komme zu kurz.

The 2030 Agenda and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) concerns us all. Global challenges such as the climate crisis, cybercrime, migration, biodiversity loss, terrorism or pandemics are urgent and require global solutions.

The Joint Programming Initiative "Connecting Climate Knowledge for Europe" (JPI Climate) is launching a joint transnational call for proposals in October 2019. SOLSTICE seeks interdisciplinary contributions from consortia led by Social Sciences and Humanities who will address societal aspects of climate change.

The results of my discussions at the «We Scientists 2035» workshop revealed that one of the problems with scientific culture widely experienced by participants, is growing pressure. The workshop this year in Lausanne, organized by the Swiss Academy of Sciences, brought together natural scientists from different career stages to discuss novel ideas about research culture and generate concrete actions for how it might be improved.