News
04.02.2013
Call for pre-proposals of Indo-Swiss Collaboration in Biotechnology (ISCB)ISCB (Indo-Swiss Collaboration in Biotechnology) invites Pre-Proposals in Bio-Sciences and relevant Socio-Economics Areas for three-year projects organised as networks with stated impact to contribute towards food security in the... [more]
04.02.2013
Report in ETH Life: ERC Advanced Grant for Olivier Voinnet at ETH ZurichProfessor Olivier Voinnet is one of total twelve professors at ETH Zurich who received an ERC Advanced Grant. His research field is RNA biology and the topic of his ERC project is to investigate microRNA (miRNA) in the entire... [more]
24.01.2013
Displaced plant species finally go extinct: Report in ETH LifeA report appeared in ETH Life about the research work of the Prof. Jonathan Levine at the Department of Environmental Systems Science at the ETH Zurich on new findings regarding the impact of invasive plant species. Read the... [more]
08.01.2013
SNSF News: NRP 68 – two project of SPSW researchers approvedThe Swiss National Science Foundation has approved 19 projects for the National Research Programme "Sustainable Use of Soil as a Resource" (NRP 68). The overall budget of these projects is approximately eight million... [more]
18.12.2012
SNSF Press release: Consequences of abandoning Alpine meadows – Observation alone will change nothingBerne, 18 December 2012. Agriculture is increasingly vanishing from the Alps. Land that was cultivated for centuries is now being abandoned and scrubs are encroaching on it. This affects not only the landscape, but also the water... [more]
