In conclusion to its eleventh call for proposals, the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) awarded 44 SNSF professorships to excellent junior researchers in February 2010. The highly-qualified young researchers will be taking up their new SNSF profes-sorships at nine different Swiss universities and both Federal Institutes of Technology.
The swiss-academies award for transdisciplinary research supported by Stiftung Mercator is granted to outstanding transdisciplinary research projects that have been or are close to being completed. The award is under the patronage of the Stiftung Mercator Schweiz. Submission deadline is April 02 2010.
Only a limited number of referendum campaigns end up swaying opinion in Switzerland. However, they do significantly influence the electorate, according to political scientist Hanspeter Kriesi, Head of the National Centers of Competence in Research (NCCR) in an interview with the latest edition of the research magazine “Horizons”.
The digital future of forensics is in Switzerland. Researchers from the National Centers in Competence in Research (NCCR) “Co-Me – computer-aided and image-guided medical procedures” have developed a robot that for the first time allows autopsies to be performed in a contact-free manner . Find out more in the latest edition of the research magazine “Horizons”.
EUROCORES Themes proposals are "bottom-up" initiatives for the creation of new collaborative research programmes dealing with broad and complex topics which are best addressed through multinational cooperation. Through its annual call for theme proposals, ESF solicits new ideas from the scientific community with a view to creating large-scale European Collaborative Research (EUROCORES) programmes in and across all scientific domains.
A natural signal from a maize plant can be genetically activated, re-enabling maize to mobilise its enemy’s natural enemy. This promising finding for agriculture has attracted keen interest in the media – far beyond the scientific community.