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23/Apr/2019
The SNSF awards its Optimus Agora prize to Antonio Rodriguez for an exhibition which explores the future of poetry.
How digitalisation could reinvent poetry: Details
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17/Apr/2019
The European network HERA funds 20 projects focusing on public spaces. Among them, the projects of two Swiss-based researchers.
Towards a better understanding of public spaces: Details
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10/Apr/2019
The SNSF has launched its new leadership programme. Innovative leadership concepts and more women in leading positions are to help us confront the current challenges in science and society resolutely and successfully.
Kick-off event of the PRIMA Leadership Programme: The SNSF wants to see more women in leadership positions: Details
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21/Mar/2019
The Swiss Science Prize Marcel Benoist 2019 will be awarded in the fields of mathematics, natural sciences and engineering sciences. The research community is invited to submit nominations by 8 April. Seraina Rüegger explains what it’s like to nominate one’s own boss.
Swiss Science Prize Marcel Benoist: It’s worth nominating someone: Details
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13/Mar/2019
Following the 8th call for proposals for its Agora funding scheme, the SNSF has approved 12 new projects submitted by researchers aiming to share their research with the public.
Where research meets the people: 12 new Agora projects approved: Details
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08/Mar/2019
The Executive Committee of the SNSF Foundation Council has elected three new members of the Research Council.
SNSF Research Council: three new members elected: Details
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07/Mar/2019
Over the last million years, ice ages have intensified and lengthened. According to a study supported by the SNFS, this previously unexplained climate transition coincides with a diminution of the mixing between deep and surface waters in the Southern Ocean. The study confirms that the Antarctic region plays a crucial role during periods of climate change.
The deep Southern Ocean is key to more intense ice ages: Details
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07/Mar/2019
Emotions are in the focus of disciplines ranging from history and artificial intelligence to biology. The new Horizons places them in the spotlight of scientific analysis.
Research magazine Horizons: emotions are everywhere - even in science: Details
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01/Mar/2019
Within the scope of the Indo-Swiss Joint Research Programme (ISJRP), 100 applications had been received by mid-April 2018. Eleven of them were awarded a grant.
Indo-Swiss Joint Research Programme: 11 projects approved: Details
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28/Feb/2019
Small and medium-sized towns are increasingly appearing on the radar of policy makers all over Europe. Findings from a project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation on the role and significance of these towns in Switzerland show that national policy and planning overlook their potential.
Small and medium-sized towns are surprisingly innovative: Details
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28/Feb/2019
The SNSF is launching the 2019 call for projects conducted in Switzerland within the scope of COST networks (COST Actions).
Call for COST projects in Switzerland 2019: Details
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27/Feb/2019
Register now for the SBP workshop on quality in biobanking, taking place on 11 March 2019 in Bern. Registration is open until 1 March 2019.
Swiss Biobanking Platform: Workshop on quality in biobanking: Details
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22/Feb/2019
To simplify collaboration with Slovenian researchers, the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) has signed a Lead Agency agreement with the funding organisation of Slovenia, the Slovenian Research Agency (ARRS).
New Lead Agency agreement with Slovenia: Details
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20/Feb/2019
The SNSF awards Doc.CH grants to twenty-two young researchers who wish to write a doctoral thesis in the humanities and social sciences. They receive an average of 217,000 francs per grant.
Doc.CH: SNSF supports 22 doctoral students in the humanities and social sciences: Details
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07/Feb/2019
All of us die – but the question is how? Today we have a greater say in the way our lives end than ever before. Nevertheless, most people do not die where they would like to. The book “Das Lebensende in der Schweiz” (End of life in Switzerland) reflects on what is currently known about dying in Switzerland. As a conclusion: palliative care needs to be strengthened, but there are still limits to the extent to which people can plan and control the end of their lives.
Dying in Switzerland – a review of current developments: Details