Greening façades and flat roofs creates vital habitats for plants and insects while combating urban heat. The canton of Basel-City 🇨🇭 leads the way with 46% of flat roofs greened and counted as ecological compensation areas. bafu.admin.ch/bafu/fr/home/t…

🚀Kuros Biosciences, the rising star of the Swiss stock market! Specializing in medical devices for bone grafts, this Zurich-based biotech has seen its stock value nearly quadruple this year, driven by soaring sales and strategic growth. ℹ️ kurosbio.com #WhySwitzerland

Switzerland's "Nobel Prize" —the Marcel Benoist Prize— honors Pascal Gygax for his work on the influence of language on the perception of reality. More on 👉marcel-benoist.ch/en/prize-2024/

🧠✨A 2.5mm² brain chip developed at 🇨🇭 EPFL could change lives!This microchip converts thoughts into text with over 93% accuracy, offering new hope for individuals with motor impairments. Learn more about this major advance in brain-machine interfaces ⤵️ swiss.tech/news/turning-t…

🔬 #WhySwitzerland for R&D? 🇨🇭 In 2023, no other European country handed out as much for research and development per capita as Switzerland. This amounted to 915 euros, while Luxembourg tops the EU rankings with 647 euros per capita.

💡 Switzerland is one of the world's most important locations for reinsurers. Industry leader SwissRe shows two examples of innovative tools in reinsurance. Check it out 👉 finance.swiss/en/news-and-ev…

Invasive alien plants threaten biodiversity and infrastructure! 🌱👽 But #SwissTech is fighting back! A new research project is using drones and AI to track these sneaky invaders. csem.ch/en/press/drone…

Switzerland has been named the World's Best Country in U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings for the third consecutive year! 🇨🇭✨ Why? A high quality of life, a thriving business environment, and those unbeatable Alpine views! 🏔️ Discover more ⤵️ usnews.com/news/best-coun…

Congratulations! Amy Macfarlane was awarded the inaugural Mertz fellowship in 2022. Are you an early-career researcher active in polar (Arctic/Antarctic) or high-altitude research? The Mertz fellowship receives applications until the 31st of October. headstartswiss.au/home/mertz-fel…

It's the opening week of the 79th United Nations General Assembly in New York! 🇺🇳🗽 Representing #TeamSwitzerland are President @violapamherd and Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis for an effective and focused #multilateralism. 🇨🇭🤝🌍 #UNGA79 un.org/en/high-level-…

At the Ministerial Discussion on the Protection of Humanitarian Personnel, Federal Councillor Ignazio Cassis voiced concern over rising violence against humanitarian workers. 🇨🇭 introduced the adopted #UNSCR 2730. Last year was the deadliest on record—this must change.#NotATarget

👩‍🔧Switzerland’s dedication to skilled professions has once again paid off with 15 medals at the World Vocational Championships! This is a testament to 🇨🇭 commitment to #vocationaltraining and the future it can bring. swissinfo.ch/eng/life-aging…

From a swimmer’s passion for the ocean to engineering solutions, Swiss Shark Rebellion tackles the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. 🌊 They reclaim plastic waste from fishing nets and turn it into high-performance swimsuits.

What makes Switzerland such an attractive place for business? See the answer in this interview with Katja Roth Pellanda, General Counsel at Zurich Insurance Group. finance.swiss/en/news-and-ev…

Thank you GICHD, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade 🇦🇺, and Pacific Islands Forum for organising this insightful workshop on how to deal with explosive remnants of war in the pacific. We look forward to a meaningful follow-up.

🌲Ever seen trees getting misted? Researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) and EPFL are spraying water vapor on pine trees in Valais' Pfynwald forest to study how air and soil drought affect them in a changing climate.

Since 1954, CERN (the European laboratory for particle physics) has been pushing the boundaries of science and technology, fostering peaceful collaboration and expanding human knowledge 🌍🔬 #CERN70

Meet Switzerland's latest innovation: Alps! 🇨🇭💻 Not the mountains, but the 6th most powerful supercomputer in the world! 🌍 🌿 Powered by hydroelectric energy 💧 Cooled by Lake Lugano 🧠 Advancing AI & climate science! Learn more 👇 swiss.tech/news/switzerla…

Climeworks' Orca plant in Iceland, the world's 1st direct air capture and storage facility in commercial operations, earns an unprecedented AAA rating—the highest in the industry! A significant milestone for both the carbon removal industry and for 🇨🇭Climeworks!

For 14 years in a row, Switzerland is the world's most innovative economy! Featuring 133 economies, the Global Innovation Index by the World Intellectual Property Organization consists of roughly 80 indicators aiming to capture the multidimensional facets of innovation. World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)