Dübendorf, St. Gallen und Thun, 04.02.2025 - Empa researcher Eve Ammerman wants to bring quantum technologies one step closer to application by combining quantum effects with light. This should enable ...

The Swiss Residential Property Price Index (IMPI) rose in the 4th quarter 2024 by 1.8% compared with the previous quarter and reached 120.2 points (4th quarter 2019 = 100). Compared with the same ...

Bern, 23.01.2025 - On 23 January, at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland and Ukraine sign ...

Data centers consume vast amounts of energy – around 40 percent of it for cooling microprocessors alone. Novel cooling methods using ionic wind could drastically curb energy consumption. These are ...

Invited guests also included WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and representatives of the private sector. The meeting emphasised the important role of the WTO and the rules-based international ...

Federal Department of Foreign Affairs. Bern, 31.01.2025 - Federal Councillor Ignazio Cassis will visit Paraguay, Bolivia and Brazil from 3 to 7 February 2025. As part of its Ameri ...

As regards bilateral development cooperation, the SDC will phase out its bilateral development programmes in Albania, Bangladesh and Zambia by the end of 2028. This decision was based on the actual ...

On 30 January, Federal Councillor Guy Parmelin, vice president of the Federal Council and head of the Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research (EAER), welcomed the president of ...

It is estimated that over one million people were murdered by the Nazis at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp between 1940 and 1945. Red Army soldiers liberated the survivors in the early afternoon of 27 ...

Cybersecurity was the focus of various side events at the WEF, which Florian Schütz, Director of the NCSC, attended with a small delegation from his office: in a discussion on building trust in ...

Bern, 29.01.2025 - At its meeting on 29 January, the Federal Council approved the negotiating mandate for an international treaty between Switzerland and Ukraine. In the process of rebuilding Ukraine, ...

Electronic signatures on documents should be recognised in Switzerland and in the European Union (EU). At its meeting on 29 January 2025, the Federal Council instructed the Federal Department of the ...