International
New Swiss Alliance for Capacity-building in PeaceTech
Politics
EPFL
EPFL (the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne) and The Geneva Graduate Institute (formerly IHEID) have signed an agreement to create the Swiss PeaceTech Alliance, which will bring together complementary knowledge needed to build capacity internationally in the field of PeaceTech. The partners are very proud to further announce that the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform (GPP) has also decided to join the alliance.
Thinking in different time frames
Politics
PSI
Planning and building a large-scale research facility such as the European Spallation Source ESS presents unique challenges. Physicist Marc Janoschek explains why only those who overcome them can achieve breakthroughs in research.
The social impact of disasters
Research
ETH Zurich
Human geographer Christine Eriksen and physicist David Bresch conduct research into weather and climate risks. Their methods may be different, but they agree that the scale of a disaster is often determined more by societal decisions than by the natural hazard itself.  
Environmental DNA reveals secret reef inhabitants
Research
ETH Zurich
An international research team use a global sampling of seawater to reveal which tropical reef fish occur where. To identify species and families, they successfully used the residual DNA shed by the animals present in the water. But not all fish can be traced in this way.
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