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The canton of Zug is to provide CHF55 million ($68.5 million) for the establishment of a joint leaing and research centre run by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH Zurich and representatives of Zug’s business community. The facility is intended to combine academic education with professional practice on the Tech Cluster Zug AG site in the Göbli area of Zug. According to a report to Parliament, students from ETH Zurich, researchers, lecturers and apprentices from Zug-based companies ...

A severe thunderstorm has “significantly” disrupted operations at Zurich Airport. By Friday lunchtime, 27 flights had been cancelled, and further cancellations are expected, according to Swiss Inteational Air Lines (SWISS). Around 3,100 passengers were affected. Delays of up to three hours are expected on further flights, according to the statement. Depending on how the weather develops, there could be further flight cancellations. According to the statement, the main reason for the disruption...

Roger Federer is back – on the teis court and in the spotlight. Following a special appearance in New York, he will be inducted into his sport’s Hall of Fame on Saturday in Newport, Rhode Island. The term Hall of Fame is not as common in Europe as it is in North America, and particularly in the US. Even those who know nothing about a particular sport realise that if someone is in the Hall of Fame, they are among the greatest in their field. It comes as no surprise that Roger Federer is to be i...

Some 700,000 people die every year from antimicrobial resistance. © Keystone / Gaetan Bally More than 20 major pharmaceutical companies are investing nearly $1 billion (CHF940 million) in ...

In this episode of Inside Geneva,exteal link we go behind the scenes at the world's most important gathering on human rights, now underway in Geneva.It's the UN Human Rights Council, where...

The case of Jean-Louis Jeanmaire shook Switzerland in the 1970s(Keystone / Str) As Switzerland reels fro...

The aual photo of the Swiss Federal Council for 2020, with federal chancellor Walter Thuherr on the far left(Swiss Fede...

Exactly 20 years ago, Hurricane Lothar knocked over more than ten million trees in Switzerland. Fourteen people died and the cost of the damage came to around CHF1.35 billion ($1.38 billion). However,...

Switzerland's seven cabinet members welcome the Indian president in September 2019. Foreign policy strategy aims to involve...

(Keystone / Ao Balzarini) There are people in the Alps who have mastered the balance between life in the mountains, a...

Brainstorming: Participants must figure outhow to weave a narrative through a scientific idea. (Eleonora Aquilini/Exposure Science Film Hackathon) Participants in a unique ‘hackathon’-style eve...

Switzerland's seven-member Federal Council in session, January 2018. (© KEYSTONE / PETER KLAUNZER) On Wednesday, December 5, parliament meets to elect two new members of the seven-seat Federal C...

Here are some of the stories we'll be following the week of December 3. (© KEYSTONE / PETER KLAUNZER) Monday As Switzerland prepares to unveil the two newest members of its executive branch, who...

The author saved a month’s worth of plastic waste, pictured here. Less than half could be recycled.(swissinfo.ch) Switzerland consumes three times as much plastic as other European countries, but recycles 30% less. Bans on plastic in the EU and China may change that.The Swiss appetite for plastic is cons...

This content was published on April 14, 2018 11:00 AMApr 14, 2018 - 11:00 You don't necessarily have to havesnow to race down the slopes on skis–grass skiing on green pastures can besimilarly exhilarating.The best in the world glide across the meadows at a speed of 90 kilometres per hour, on specialskis, which havegrooves like tr...

This content was published on March 3, 2018 2:00 PMMar 3, 2018 - 14:00 The possibility of using computers to count the votes of the Swiss population had been in discussion for some time before a large-scale experiment took place in a district of canton Zurich on February 1, 1970, with the help of the IBM Computer System/360.Although the...

Jürg Schär and Konrad Rüegg are both members of the SwissFederation of Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises (swissinfo.ch) Switzerland’s Federation of Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) supports a proposal to do away with mandatory licence fees for public service broadcasters, which will come to a nationwide vote on March 4. Two of its members sat down to discuss the issue.The SME umbrella organisationexteal link is up against an alliance of most political parties, parliament, the govement, trade unions and most sectors of the business community, who recommend voting against the initiative. But it is a political force to be reckon...

(Keystone) Here are the stories we'll be following the week of February 12, 2018. (Keystone) MondaySwitzerland has generous aid available for victims of crimes, but some groups – namely the Swiss living abroad – get left out. An in-depth look at the issue, and who can benefit from assistance. (swissinfo.ch) TuesdaySwitzerland’s Federation of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises is one of the groups that has come out in favour of the initiative to do away with public media license fees. Yet its members don’t always agree. Two of them ...

IOC President Thomas Bach with representatives from South Korea andNorth Korea's Olympic Committee President and sports minister Kim Il Guk (second from left) in Lausae(Keystone) The Swiss-based Inteational Olympic Committee (IOC) says the Korean peninsula has a brighter future due to the North’s participation in the Winter Games. But analysts argue any such rapprochement between the North and South will be short-lived.“The Olympic Games show us what the world could look like, if we were all guided by the Olympic spirit of respect and understanding," said IOC President Thomas Bach after a meeting in Januaryexteal link with delegates from...

The 46th edition of the ‘Prix de Lausae’ Inteational Ballet Competition kicked off on Monday. This year, 74 young dancers from 16 countries are participating in the prestigious competition. The final will be held on February 3.In this year’s edition, there are no Swiss participants. However, two Swiss-based candidates,a Japanese and a Belgian, bothfromthe Ballet School Theatre inBasel, aretaking part.An abundance of Asian dancers characterises the competition. Some 19 South Koreans, 10 Chinese, and 9 Japanese account for half of the overall participants.Paths to becoming a professional ballet dancer in Asia are not plentiful. So, many young dancers from the region come to the Lausae competit...