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Hydropower accounts for almost 60% of Swiss energy production, which is likely to increase with a shift to renewable energy...

Insights from the “ENRICH/SDSC Data Workshop: Interoperability of Environmental Data and AI” that took place on May 6, 2025 at Eawag.

The next edition of the SDSC’s National Calls for Collaborative Projects will open in September 2025.

Another office for the Swiss Data Science Center will be established at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI. To this end, the ETH Board has approved an increase of five million Swiss francs in the budget of the strategic focus area Data Science. The main aim of this expansion is to help improve the evaluation and processing of the growing amounts of data from large and complex research infrastructures, sensor networks, and databases at PSI and the other three federal research institutes, Empa, WSL, and Eawag. The resources and expertise will be available to all institutes in the ETH Domain.

A framework agreement was signed by the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology, the CHUV, and UNIL to establish a common base of expertise in the area of data science and serve projects in the healthcare sector.

As the world’s cities continue to grow, land is becoming increasingly scarce. However, open space is vital in urban areas. Semiramis is a new approach to AI-augmented architectural design, allowing designers a quick and easy selection of feasible performance values and a qualitative evaluation of the generated geometries.