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Die SATW vereinigt als nicht kommerziell orientierte, politisch unabhängige Dachgesellschaft Personen, Institutionen und Fachgesellschaften in der Schweiz, die in den technischen Wissenschaften, deren Anwendung und deren Förderung tätig sind.

13/10/2026

💡 Wie gelingt die Zusammenarbeit zwischen Schulen, Hochschulen und der Industrie? Und wie kann man die Wirkung von MINT-Programmen im Unterricht und im ausserschulischen Bereich evaluieren? 💡

Zwei zentrale Fragestellungen, denen sich Wee Teo, Head Natural Sciences and Science Education am National Institute of Education der Technological University Singapore , im Rahmen des Kongresses «Vision MINT: Bildung für eine zukunftsweisende Schweiz» vom 2. Februar 2027 an der in Lausanne widmet.

In ihrer Keynote «Building a Sustainable STEM Ecosystem: Singapore's Strategies, Practices and Impact» hebt sie auf Basis aktueller nationaler Forschungsergebnisse zentrale Strategien hervor, um MINT-Talente zu entwickeln und stellt Fallstudien direkt aus Singapurs Klassenzimmern vor. Darüber hinaus gibt sie Einblicke in regionale MINT-Bildungsinitiativen, die in Asien nachhaltige Wirkung erzielt haben.

📣 Jetzt anmelden! 📣 Die Teilnahme am Kongress ist kostenlos.

ℹ️ Anmeldung und weitere Infos: https://zurl.co/OE6Xm

🎯 Angesprochen sind Akteur:innen der MINT-Förderung, Entscheidungsträger:innen aus Politik, Wirtschaft und Industrie, sowie Bildungsexpert:innen, Lehrpersonen und (Hoch)Schulvertreter:innen.

Academy of Engineering Sciences SATW
der Wissenschaften Schweiz

13/10/2026

Switzerland imports 100% of its phosphorus — a nutrient no food system can do without.

It comes largely from mines in Morocco, China and Russia, where extraction burdens both environment and health. At the same time, we flush thousands of tonnes of phosphorus down the drain every year.

Since 2026, recovery from sewage sludge and meat-and-bone meal is mandatory in Switzerland, with industrial-scale plants planned or under construction in Bazenheid, Zuchwil and Oftringen. has calculated that separating just one fifth of the urine produced could replace around 15% of mineral fertiliser imports — and Aurin, the world's first approved fertiliser of its kind, proves the concept works.

Dependency is the common thread. But these innovative initiatives give hope:

Around 70% of rare earths come from Chinese mines and less than 1% is recycled; Perrin and her ETH spin-off are recovering europium from old fluorescent tubes to change that.

Mezzenga at Zürich extracts gold from circuit boards using whey-protein sponges.

AG — Strüby, Fässler and Marbé — builds solar storage from retired EV batteries, complemented by ageing research from Caliandro and Vezzini at Fachhochschule BFH with , within 's CircuBAT project.

And in plastics, where Switzerland recycles only 9%, is building the missing capacity.

Recycling isn't just an environmental question. It's a question of supply security, resilience and domestic value creation.

See where Switzerland stands in this overview: https://zurl.co/ItFnB

Claudia Schärer, Stefan Scheidegger, Christian Holzner, Matthias Meili, Tobias Schlegel

Image: Hans, Pixabay

12/10/2026

🤖 Everywhere on Earth we hand dangerous work to robots. In space — the most hostile environment we know — we insist on sending people.

Crewed missions cost a multiple of robotic ones and deliver less clean science. Every probe already carries terrestrial material outward, bacteria and viruses included; the ISS has shown that some survive space conditions for years. With humans on board, the scale changes entirely. More than 200 tonnes of waste already sit on the Moon, including the Apollo crews' faecal bags, full of bacteria.

🌍 That turns a technical question into an ethical one. If we land where life might exist, we may destroy it before we detect it. And the reverse holds too: after Apollo 11, astronauts spent 21 days in quarantine — later analysis showed it would have done nothing to stop contamination of Earth.

Prof. Kathrin Altwegg, astrophysicist at the University of Bern and SATW member, states her position plainly in an interview with SATW: "Life on other planets is of equal value."

As director of Bern's Center for Space and Habitability, tasked with working across disciplines, she took the mandate seriously enough to sit down with theologians.

🤔 In the race back to the Moon and on to Mars, who is asking what we might destroy on arrival?

Read the full interview: https://zurl.co/YkFhd

09/10/2026

📡 "Satellite connections are much easier to intercept, because anyone with an antenna can follow the signal," says Adrian Perrig, professor of network security at ETH Zurich.

That does not mean an eavesdropper can read encrypted traffic — but it does make strong encryption and authentication far more important.

Direct-to-Cell moves part of the mobile network into orbit: ordinary smartphones connect to satellites in low Earth orbit, which route the link through a ground station.
Convenient in a dead zone. Complicated everywhere else.

⚖️ A LEO satellite travels at around 7.5 kilometers per second and can cross several national borders within minutes. Phone, satellite, ground station and mobile network may belong to different companies in different countries — raising questions of data protection, data sovereignty, regulation and jurisdiction. And unlike a base station on the ground, notes Hua Wang, professor of electronics at ETH Zurich, a satellite cannot simply be visited, inspected and repaired.

⚠️ Today's fleets are operated mainly by large non-European companies. "A dependency on Starlink, for example, could mean a sovereignty problem for data communication," Perrig says. Wang argues for infrastructure controlled in Europe — better still, developed and built here.

🤔 Who should own the path our messages take?

Read the full article: https://zurl.co/9Po4O

Simon Koechlin, Benoit Dubuis, Esther Koller, Tobias Schlegel, Deborah Müller, Christian Holzner, Manuel Kugler, Claudia Schärer, Stefan Scheidegger

08/10/2026

A small country with no rocket of its own – and a front-row seat in space.

In 1968, ESRO-1 became the first European research satellite in orbit. Its structure was built in Zurich-Seebach. Since the first Ariane launch in 1979, every single Ariane has flown with a payload fairing made in Switzerland. In 2028, that record turns 60 – yet almost no one knows about it.

Dr. Barbara Frei-Spreiter took over as CEO of Beyond Gravity in April 2026. Her ambition is to make Beyond Gravity the most industrialized player in space by manufacturing space technology in series for the European and global markets.

With a growing market of around 5.5% per year, an ESA budget increase of 30% for 2026–2028, and over 150 space companies in Switzerland, the country has the necessary resources.

However, as she says, "The opportunity does not seize itself."

Read the full interview: https://zurl.co/s0mBc

Benoit Dubuis Dr. Esther Koller-Meier Tobias Schlegel Claudia Schärer Deborah MUELLER Manuel Kugler Christian Holzner Stefan Scheidegger

07/10/2026

🧬 Activating the innate immune system against cancer is one of oncology's unsolved problems. Many have tried.

Abbmira Therapeutics – founded in Basel in 2024 – believes small molecules targeting a specific immune cell type could be the missing piece. Their lead candidate is inspired by a bacterial mechanism, designed to make tumours visible to the immune system.

Julia Biwer, COO & Co-Founder at AbbmiraTherapeutics explains: "'Sculpturing the immune system' is our term for the process of influencing the immune system to actively fight disease, as opposed to suppressing it."

The same immune pathway has potential relevance beyond oncology: autoimmune conditions, chronic disease. The pre-seed financing round is open since May 2026.

Big pharma now funds this kind of early-stage risk much less than before. Start-ups do, however, and Switzerland's research ecosystem is where that science is developed.

Read the full interview here: https://zurl.co/6VwNb

06/10/2026

⚠️ Banning a substance is easy. Replacing it wisely is hard.

A 2025 study by the Swiss Academy of Sciences SCNAT examined some 250 industrial PFAS applications and found alternatives for only around 16 percent of them. And even those are not always genuinely better: some proposed substitutes carry new risks, from toxicity to flammability to a far higher greenhouse gas potential.

Dominique Werner (scienceindustries) warns of "regrettable substitutions" – replacements that comply with a ban but perform worse overall: "Industry is not only taking part in this generational project, it has in some cases already gone ahead and remediated legacy contamination at its own expense."

In a SATW interview, he discusses the industrial perspective on the PFAS phase-out, alongside Manfred Heuberger (Empa) and Martin Scheringer (ETH Zürich).

👉 Read the full article: https://zurl.co/BfT4r

Claudia Schärer Tobias Schlegel Esther Koller

06/10/2026

💡 How can education not only prepare young people for the future, but enable them to shape it? 💡

Eine spannende Frage, die von einer noch spannenderen Person in den Raum gestellt wird, im Rahmen des Kongresses «Vision MINT: Bildung für eine zukunftsweisende Schweiz» vom 2. Februar 2027 an der in Lausanne.

Basierend auf der «50:50 Strategy» von Engineering untersucht Makrygianni, Head of Education Engagement an der UCL Engineering, in ihrer Keynote, wie Zugehörigkeitsgefühl, Eigenverantwortung der Lernenden, Teacher Leadership, ein kritisches Verständnis von KI und Community Partnerschaften die MINT-Bildung neu gestalten können.

Die Teilnahme am Kongress ist kostenlos.

ℹ️ Anmeldung und weitere Infos: https://zurl.co/gqxvn

🎯 Angesprochen sind Akteur:innen der MINT-Förderung, Entscheidungsträger:innen aus Politik, Wirtschaft und Industrie, sowie Bildungsexpert:innen, Lehrpersonen und (Hoch)Schulvertreter:innen.

Academy of Engineering Sciences SATW
der Wissenschaften Schweiz

05/10/2026

🔐 Wie lässt sich Digital Trust messbar machen?

Vertrauen in digitale Systeme wird für Unternehmen zunehmend zum strategischen Faktor – gerade mit zunehmender Vernetzung, Automatisierung und dem Einsatz von KI.

Doch wie lässt sich digitales Vertrauen konkret erfassen, bewerten und verbessern? Genau darum geht es beim INNOwork #04 zu Digital Trust von swissICT.

Dr. Felix Gille von der Universität Zürich stellt die Ergebnisse einer von der SATW unterstützten Pilotstudie vor. Anschliessend geht es gemeinsam mit Vertreter aus der Industrie in die Praxis.

📆 Donnerstag, 26. November 2026
🕔 17:00–19:00 Uhr, Eintreffen ab 16:30 Uhr
📍 Zürich
💡 Workshop & Networking
🎟️ Teilnahme kostenlos

🎯 Gesucht sind insbesondere Fach- und Führungskräfte aus der Industrie, die Digital Trust aktiv mitgestalten möchten: mit konkreten Anwendungsfällen, Anforderungen und Erfahrungen aus der Praxis.

Ziel ist es, gemeinsam mit der Industrie die Grundlagen für ein längerfristiges Forschungsprojekt zu schaffen und Ansätze zu entwickeln, mit denen Digital Trust künftig besser mess- und nutzbar wird.

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02/10/2026

How do regulatory requirements become practical, workable solutions? Standards play a key role.

This is especially clear in artificial intelligence. While the EU AI Act sets the regulatory framework, standards help translate its requirements into concrete technical and organizational practices.

In our latest article, Kim Skov Hilding, Secretary of CEN-CENELEC JTC 21 “Artificial Intelligence,” offers a behind-the-scenes look at European standardization: How are standards developed? How is consensus reached among industry, research, public authorities, and other stakeholders? And what happens when fast-moving technologies meet the deliberate pace of standardization?

For companies, standards are much more than technical documents. They can help organizations navigate regulatory requirements and support interoperability, market access, and trustworthy AI systems.

👉 Read the full article: https://zurl.co/QSuBi

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