Projects

How can SMEs innovate sustainably while creating both economic and societal value? This research examines the opportunities, barriers and underlying motivations that influence sustainable innovation among entrepreneurs.

ON PACE investigates how frequent start-stop cycles affect wear in offshore wind turbines and develops insights to extend component lifetime and improve operational reliability.

PURECOOL develops sustainable and circular cryogenic technologies. The focus is on low-vibration, energy-efficient, and easy-to-maintain cooling systems for high-tech applications.

The Virtual Breeder converts smartphone videos into detailed 3D plant models, enabling experts to assess plants remotely.

The Open Payments Innovation Lab investigates how open payment protocols such as Interledger enable faster, cheaper, and more inclusive payments, and what is required legally, economically, and socially to achieve this.

Three universities of applied sciences are strengthening lecturers in ‘integrated thinking & acting’, so that are better equipped to train HEO students for sustainable and future-oriented action in a changing economy.

Three universities of applied sciences are developing education that prepares HEO students for a sustainable economy in which people, society, and the environment carry at least as much weight as financial results.

This discussion paper, commissioned by EU-OSHA, explores the impact of the AI Act on AI systems designed for occupational safety and health (OSH).

Digital forms of money are transforming the global financial system. CBDCs, stablecoins and tokenised assets are also geopolitical instruments. This project examines their influence on the international monetary order.

The DigitalZH project develops and tests innovative solutions for automated quality inspection in the manufacturing industry.

True Pricing – making the true costs of food visible – can make the public more aware and promote fairer, more sustainable consumption. But how do we effectively involve the public in this?

Product returns are a persistent problem for many e-commerce businesses. This research project examines how digital marketing can be used to reduce the number of product returns.