Damian Elsig new head of the Swiss National Library
The newly appointed director of the NL will take office Aug. 16, succeeding Marie-Christine Doffey, who has led the institution since 2005…
Three hundred million francs for global health
Bern aims to improve access to vaccines, tests and medicines in developing countries and to strengthen local health systems in line with…
Switzerland comes to the aid of Indian hospitals
The Confederation allocates one million francs to the population of the Asian country and will provide hundreds of oxygen concentrators and…
Full video, “The secret gateway to Switzerland”
Andrea Schenone, president of the "Swiss Federalism" association, explained what the federal government can offer in an EVE Elite Value…
Biodiversity of Switzerland’s agricultural land is surveyed
Agroscope's "ALL-EMA" programme of controls and measures focuses on the diversity of flora and fauna in the cultivated habitats of the…
In Switzerland, the COVID19 certificate is universal and cannot be falsified
Until the end of May, the federal government will pursue two scenarios: one from the Federal Office of Information Technology and…
SFIVET is on its way to full academic status
In 2022, the Federal College of Applied Sciences in Zollikofen, attended by 16,000 people a year ago, will be even more attractive
Innovation Park East in the Swiss National Circuit
Government approval for the Lerchenfeld and Buchs Campus facilities, supported by the cantons of St. Gallen, Appenzell Ausserrhoden and…
IPI and Swiss export industry join forces
In 2020, the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property acted in 280 cases of violation of "Swissness" legislation, but now there are…
Here’s why people don’t like insurance against pandemics
Companies have conveyed to the Federal Council their opposition to annual premiums that are parafiscal in nature and useful only if they…
Greenhouse gas emissions fall slightly throughout Switzerland
The 'output' of tonnes of CO2 equivalent (46.2 million) is 14 per cent lower than in the sample year 1990, but only 0.3 per cent lower than…
Reconnaissance over time on the cost of hospitals in Switzerland
The Federal Office of Public Health released the second comparison regarding the expenditures per case of hospitals and birthing homes
Swiss electricity production is monitored in detail
More than 110,000 electricity production facilities in the federal government, renewable or not, are sampled on the website…
Twenty years of unexpected encounters and successes for Swissnex
The bridge between Switzerland and abroad in education, research and innovation presents the overview of an extraordinary year, full of…
The status of Swiss nuclear material abroad in 2020
Atomic products from Swiss plants, following the purchase of uranium for fuels, are found in Germany, France, Great Britain, USA and Sweden
Ethanol: Switzerland intends to build up compulsory stocks
As a result of the current pandemic experience, the Federal Council wants to provide the country with sufficient reserves of alcohol for…