Woman in Tech, How a Woman Performs Research Work in CERN and EPFL
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3y ago
Archives Switzerland is among the best countries for scientists. With its strong polytechnic schools like EPFL and ETH Zurich which are among the Top 10 world’s best universities as well as with the international research organizations like CERN, it opens a lot of opportunities for scientists.  How is it to be a female in Tech? What opportunities have femscientists and what projects they manage? We had a talk with Tatiana Pieloni, who is engaged in the research projects in CERN and EPFL, about the recent tendencies and about the differences of the working atmosphere between these two in ..read more
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Digital Influence in Switzerland, a Talk with a Journalist and Story-Maker
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3y ago
Archives Digital technologies are changing the portrait of a modern world and our way to be. The speed and the size of information flow push us to move more and be very adaptive to the new living conditions. To manage this task you have to be ready to act, experiment, and strengthen your own information filters. We had a talk with a person who works with information every day and feels the influence of its growing flow. Margot Delevaux, a journalist of RTSInfo about digital influence in Switzerland, how it influences the job of a journalist, and her particular digital role. Instagram: Mar ..read more
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Christmas Ideas: Leman Covid Box
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3y ago
Archives Lockdown during the COVID-19 period motivated Leah Henderson, 19, a student from Geneva, to develop special Christmas boxes for Lac Leman residents. She call them COVID Boxes willing to share some joy and happiness with those who passed or still facing difficulties caused by COVID. The idea came to Leah in spring during a massive lockdown time when she was missing hugs from her family and friends. She remembered the moments when being a schoolgirl she received a package or a letter from her grandmother. Hence she created her boxes filling them with essential goods: a creative facema ..read more
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ETH Wunderkind Found a Cement-Free Building Material an Hit Forbes Pages
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3y ago
Archives Gnanli Landrou grew up in Togo and came to France at the age of 16. This was the moment when he went to school for the first time. 15 years later he founded a start-up produces a cement-free building material for the construction of houses. Today he is mentioned by Forbes as a wunderkind founder. Gnanli Landrou, is a 31-year old researcher. He grew up in Togo, West Africa and came to France where he went to school. In two years he managed to master the school material for the Baccalauréat, the French Matura. After studying materials science in western France, Gnanli Landrou finally ..read more
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How Do you Manage Your Trash? Swiss experience
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3y ago
Archives Domestic wastes and trash utilization are among the hottest topics on the world’s agenda. How to arrange the consumption process in a smart way and let the next generation enjoy pure air and soil? In Switzerland, waste management is based on the polluter pays principles, which means that a person responsible for pollution production pays for damage caused to the environment. Bin bags are taxed with pay-per-bag fees in three-quarters of all communes. Geneva is the only canton that does not pay a garbage tax but even though the canton recycles almost 50% of all the wastes. In Geneva e ..read more
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Happy September: Number of Startups is Rising
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3y ago
Archives Despite the world’s business crisis caused by COVID-19 pandemic September 2020 turned out to be a successful month for Swiss business. During the first month of autumn, 3788 new companies were founded. It is a 461 start-ups increase compared with August 2020 and 583 start-ups more than in September 2019. Two times more companies were found in German-speaking Switzerland that in Swiss Romandie: +303 companies vs. +140 companies. Italian speaking canton of Ticino got new 18 companies. Among 26 Swiss cantons Zurich and Geneva showed the highest growth with 130 and 70 foundations ..read more
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Innovation Tree Transforms Wind Power into Electricity in the Center of Geneva
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4y ago
Archives The first wind tree aimed to reduce electricity consumption of the households was installed in Geneva’s Champel to represent city’s innovation environment and positive attitude to green-technologies. Photo: Maria Lyakhovskaya This plant is actually 10 m high and has 63 leaves. Each of them has own microturbine connected to a power generator. The project was realized by Jérôme Michaud-Larivière, CEO of the NewWind. This powerful device installed in the garden can produce electricity to cover up to 80% of 4-persons family consumption or to lighten up an office up to 100 sq m. Even a s ..read more
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Number of Startups in Switzerland is rising, Businesses Go AGILE after COVID19
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4y ago
Archives After an absolute minimum of company’s foundations in Switzerland is rising again – 3319 foundations  in May 2020 which is 587 companies more (+21%) than in April 2020. Statistics was published by STARTUPS.CH. COVID19 had a negative impact on company’s launch industry. Compared to the figures of the previous year there was still a decrease of 9% or 333 fewer were launched in May 2020 compared to May 2019. French-speaking Switzerland turned out to be the most vulnerable part during lockdown time. But in May it showed the biggest increase (+48,45%) compared to the other parts of ..read more
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Volunteers, Lake Geneva looks for your help
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4y ago
Archives Photo: Maria Talanova / suissepic On the 25 and 26 June Association de Sauvegarde du Léman is looking for help to clean the grounds around Lake Geneva from Japanese knotweed, a plant that hit agriculture and local plants. The activity is to take place in Crans-près-Céligny and is aimed to help save biological diversity of the region. On 25 June at 14h00 On 26 June at 9h00 About organizers The Geneva Center for Volunteering, founded in 1988, is a non-profit, apolitical and neutral association. Its activities are carried out in the City of Geneva and throughout the canton. Its goal ..read more
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How to Tune Your CV to Fit to Swiss Employers
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4y ago
Archives Switzerland is probably the most employed country in the world. According to Trading Economy data the number of those who have a job and earn increases year by year. By 2020 it is estimated as 5129,000 people. High wages paid in Switzerland (CHF 6,291 gross in 2020 // Trading economy) attract people from all over the world to try their best to come and get the job here. Biggest Swiss cities such as Zurich and Geneva have over 40% expats. We had a talk with Adelina Stefan, an independent career consultant, who helps hundreds of great-skilled and highly-motivated workers to find their ..read more
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