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Here you will find content related to digital transformation: new publications and projects, vacancies, grant and funding announcements and much more.
The official conclusion of the Parldigi MasterClass for the Bern Grand Council was celebrated with a lunch event in June 2024. A survey of the participants gave a positive feedback.
Three project applications were approved in this year's DSI Infrastructure & Lab Call.
As part of its third Rapid Action Call, the Digitalization Initiative of the Zurich Higher Education Institutions (DIZH) is funding six projects that contribute to strengthening digital resilience and security. DSI members are involved in five of these funded projects.
The 2022-2024 cohort of the Excellence Program of the Digital Society Initiative (DSI) celebrated at the DSI Summer Party.
Prof. Dr. med. Claudia Witt, Co-Director of the Digital Society Initiative (DSI), has been elected as a member of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences (SAMW).
The Swiss Data Science Center (SDSC) will become a national research infrastructure with the mission to support the access and development of data science and artificial intelligence (AI) in research, industry and the public sector in Switzerland. In this context, the SDSC is launching a national call for collaboration projects to begin in 2025.
The BRIDGE Lab of the Digital Society Initiative (DSI) has launched a new series of events in recent weeks. The Apéro Digital has the vision of promoting collaboration around digitalization and innovation in the Greater Zurich Area.
For over three years, researchers from the Digital Society Initiative (DSI) of the University of Zurich and the University of Lausanne have been examining the ethical and legal aspects of cybersecurity. The results of the project have been presented at various closing events in recent weeks.
HOPE will release its project-based learning course on the topic «Social Innovation for Development and Sustainability» in fall 2024. Hubs of Open and Participatory Education for Digitally Connected Learning (HOPE) is one of the central educational activities of The BRIDGE Lab, a project in the «DSI Infrastructures & Labs» series.
The third round of the DSI media workshop highlighted the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the economy as a whole and on the work of teams, among other things. New survey results also provided answers to the question of what the Swiss think about ChatGPT and co.
The «UZH Innovathon: The Digitalization of Mobility» an inter- and transdisciplinary course at UZH, will take place again in the coming autumn semester – for the fourth time already. The format was developed by the DSI Community Mobility together with the UZH Innovation Hub.
The Digitalisierungsinitiative der Zürcher Hochschulen (DIZH) is funding a total of 14 projects in its 3rd Project Call. This includes six projects from DSI members.
The Digital Society Initiative (DSI), together with the Department of Philosophy at the University of Zurich, is looking for a PhD student to work on the project «Meaning in Life in the Digital Society».
The Digital Society Initiative (DSI), together with the Institute for Implementation Science in Health Care, is offering a PhD Position in Digital Health (80%).
The Digital Society Initiative (DSI) is looking for a PhD student to work on the project «Empowering AI to Explore the Space of Reasons (Project AIR)», which is funded by the DSI and led by Dr. Reto Gubelmann.
We are delighted to congratulate our DSI researcher and postdoc, Liudmila Zavolokina, on her next career step. She will be a professor at the University of Lausanne as of summer 2024.
Until 15.04.2024, UZH students can apply for the new DSI Minor Digital Skills. For interested parties, an information event will take place on Zoom on 08.04.2024.
From now until 15.04.2024, UZH students can apply for the new DSI Minor Digital Skills. In the 30 ECTS Master's minor study program, students learn how to meet the challenges of digital transformation and take advantage of its opportunities.
The Digital Society Initiative (DSI) is looking for a motivated and enthusiastic PhD student to work on a project regarding the use of neuromorphic technologies in the field of precision farming.
The Digital Society Initiative (DSI) can announce inaugural lectures by five DSI members for the current spring semester.
The DIZH (Digitalisierungsinitiative der Zürcher Hochschulen) has approved ten projects in the first Outreach Call. We are particularly pleased about six projects by members of the DSI.
DSI Infrastructures & Labs are shareable infrastructures or structural vessels for creating collaborative research environments related to digital transformation. Dr. Hiloko Kato briefly introduces the MEEET Lab, one of the projects in this series.
We are pleased to introduce the second new DSI Community. Since the beginning of the year, a group of researchers at the DSI has been working on the legal challenges of artificial intelligence - organized in the DSI Community AI & Law.
The DSI Infrastructure & Lab Call is now open. It is addressed to all DSI members and allows funding of up to CHF 100'000.
The paper «The perils and promises of fact-checking with large language models» by Prof. Dr. Alexandre Bovet and Dorian Quelle was published in the current issue of the journal «Frontiers of Artificial Intelligence».
The Data Donation Lab will organize the first Swiss Data Donation Day in September 2024 and is looking for projects from DIZH researchers (including UZH).
At the beginning of 2024, the Digital Society Initiative received two new communities. One of them is the DSI Community Digital Humanities, which is now starting its work with a kick-off event. All interested are invited.
For our new educational program «DSI Minor Digital Skills» we are looking for a study program coordinator with a 40-60 % workload. This person has experience in higher education and is responsible for the operational coordination of all processes of this program.
The ZuriACT (Zurich Accessible CiTy) project aims to use data on accessibility features to make an important contribution to a barrier-free Zurich city center. The project team hosted an event on January 24 to provide information on the current status and celebrate what has been achieved so far. Attendees were also informed about the next steps in the project.
The Parldigi MasterClass for members of the Grand Council of the Canton of Geneva starts on January 26, 2024 with a first event on cybersecurity.
DSI Infrastructures & Labs are shareable infrastructures or structural vessels for creating collaborative research environments related to digital transformation. Dr. Maud Reveilhac briefly introduces the Swiss News Viz Media Lab, one of the projects in this series.
The DIZH (Digitalisierungsinitiative der Zürcher Hochschulen) has approved ten projects in the first Founder Call. We are particularly pleased about four projects from members of the DSI, congratulate them warmly and wish them every success.
The Digital Society Initiative (DSI) has produced a new video podcast with the Swiss Drone and Robotics Center (SDRZ VBS). In seven episodes, the state of drone technology as well as legal and practical aspects of drone defense are explained.
Markus Christen (Managing Director of the DSI) and his team have created a guideline focussing on the non-technical aspects of cybersecurity. The research team was able to present these to the Federal Parliament at the end of December 2023.
