The DIZH Founder Call supports students and employees at DIZH universities in developing early-stage entrepreneurial ideas in digital transformation. Up to CHF 75,000 is available for proof-of-concept projects, with a submission deadline of January 13, 2027.

This issue centers on DigitalTransfer, the DSI's new knowledge platform that brings together video content from teaching and research to make foundational digital knowledge accessible to everyone.

The Digital Society Initiative (DSI) at the University of Zurich is launching DigitalTransfer. The new platform (mainly in German) brings together video content from teaching and research and makes basic digital knowledge accessible to everyone – regardless of prior knowledge or field of study.

Where the archive has gaps, generative AI supplies the missing images – plausible, polished and invented. In the latest column in the DSI Insights series, DIZH Bridge Professor Roland Meyer writes about synthetic images of history and what they cost us.a

The third Structure Call of the DIZH Innovation Program is funding two new projects – including the LUDIC CULTURE HUB, which establishes games as an interdisciplinary field of research and practice. Several members of the DSI are part of the project team.