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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 ...

The war in Iran took its toll on the Jungfrau Railways in the first half of 2026. As a result, significantly fewer travellers from Asia visited the Jungfraujoch. Tuover and profit fell sharply as a consequence. Operating revenue fell by 9% to CHF137 million ($170 million), the Beese Oberland mountain railway operator aounced on Friday. The bottom line was a profit of CHF29 million, 22% less than in the previous year, when the Jungfraubahn Group had posted a record profit. The weaker demand...

A 17-year-old Briton on holiday with his family has drowned in Lake Cauma in Graubünden, easte Switzerland. The young man was trying to swim to the shore from a small island when he got into difficulty. The incident occurred at around 5:45pm on Thursday, according to a statement issued on Friday by the Graubünden police. Several people immediately rushed to help, swimming and using canoes, and brought him to the shore of the island from which he had set off. There, some paramedics who happened...

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 ...

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...

Ueli Maurer reviews guards during a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on April 29(Keystone /...

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

Bo in 1979, Switzerland’s youngest canton still owes much of its political and economic fate to the federal system that houses it. Four decades ago in Delémont...

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...

Heidi Main Heidi Amstalden Albertin in traditional Swiss dress Twenty-seven-year-old Heidi Amstalden Albertin lives in Helvetia, Brazil – a Swiss colony that her ancestors helped to found. ...

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...