More flexibility in promoting Swiss innovation
Innosuisse and the SNSF will have more room for manoeuvre and be more responsive in their support of renovation projects and start-ups.
Dairy products and agrotourism? Excellent in Switzerland
The Agroscope agency and an external partner examined in Ettenhausen data from 3,500 farms and three different strategies for dairy farms
Council of Europe: Who will represent the Swiss territories?
The names of the 12 members of the Swiss delegation to the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities in Strasbourg for the period…
Professional titles more equivalent between Switzerland and Germany
A new Swiss-German bilateral agreement will reflect developments in work-based education in both countries and extend the scope of the…
In a coin 50 years of women’s suffrage in Switzerland
On April 29, 2021, the Federal Mint will issue a new gold coinage with a face value of 50 francs to celebrate half a century of women's…
Applications open for the “Marcel Benoist Science Prize”
After the low-profile centennial cause COVID, 250,000 francs will reward in 2021 the best studies carried out in the field of humanities…
An App to unbureaucratize the work of Swiss farmers
The "My agricultural data sharing" application, which was successfully tested in late 2020 in the canton of Fribourg, will speed up the…
Switzerland-Liechtenstein pact on scientific innovation
Cooperation agreement between Bern and Vaduz on the promotion of research-based modernization renewed on January 26 through Innosuisse
Swiss monuments? A “hidden” treasure to be exploited…
Protecting Switzerland's real estate heritage of 270,000 historic buildings creates positive spillover effects for culture, tourism and…
That isolated Russian flag on a remote peak of the Alps
A monument in the canton of Uri commemorates the troops of General Alexander Suvorov, who on September 25, 1799, sacrificed themselves…
Cantonal French Language School in Bern under scrutiny
On January 20, the Federal Council launched a consultation on the total revision of the Swiss law concerning the ad hoc subsidy to the ECLF…
Schwyz and Glarus, Lost Semicantons of Swiss History
Until the Sonderbund War, the separation between conservatives and liberals in the Swabian region of Germany and between Protestants and…
Three states divided in half, but with the same dignity as the others
Although with half the federal representation, Obwalden, Nidwalden, Basel City and Country, and Appenzell Ausserrhoden and Appenzell…
Athenian democracy? Revive between Glarus and Appenzell…
In two Swiss cantons, the Landsgemeinde, a popular assembly in which citizens vote on government, courts, laws, and expenditures by... a…
Even Piedmont has said yes to differentiated regionalism
Majority and opposition agree in Turin on autonomy and a long bouquet of subjects to be obtained, but in respect of a national unity of…
Tuscany joins the train of differentiated autonomy
In October 2019, Florence also began negotiations with the government for a regionalism of its own, but limited to only 10 subjects and…