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Resilience is a mental resource and inner strength that helps you to be robust in times of crisis and overcome complex challenges. In this training course, you will learn what you can personally do to strengthen your resilience and thus cope with stress. Please note that this is a psychoeducational...

Resilience is a mental resource and inner strength that helps you to be robust in times of crisis and overcome complex challenges. In this training course, you will learn what you can personally do to strengthen your resilience and thus cope with stress.This EURAXESS Switzerland Webinar series is...

For Horizon 2020, Switzerland was considered as a partially associated country until the end of 2016. National measures were applied to fund Swiss project participations in those areas of Horizon 2020 to which Switzerland was not associated during this time. As of 2017, Switzerland retrieves full...

This year, the SUDAC Programme (swissuniversities development and cooperation network) will hold its annual conference in collaboration with the KFPE (Swiss Commission for Research Partnerships with Developing Countries) on: Sustainable, equitable partnerships in North-South collaboration - ...

Switzerland is a small country of 8.8 million inhabitants in the middle of Europe, well known for its excellent chocolate and high-precision watches. But there is much more to Switzerland than this. We are small in size, but big in reach: check out how our higher education institutions work and...

The report on “Academic career, partnership and family” (in German) highlights the challenges of reconciling an academic career, partnership and family. The report shows the importance of adapting the framework conditions to improve the compatibility of a career in science and private life. It is...

The Precarious Careers in Research. Analysis and Policy Options report maps employment contracts and career models with a view to gain knowledge about where and which groups of researchers suffer most from precarious careers. It suggests policies to reduce the precariousness of researcher careers...

Switzerland and the EU have agreed on a partial association to the first pillar of Horizon 2020 (“Excellent Science”), which will come into effect on 15 September 2014. The Federal Council has approved the financial support of researchers in Switzerland that are part of Horizon 2020 projects in all...

Higher Education The choice of tertiary-level education is large and varied. The institutes of higher education can be separated into two types having the same status but with different educational goals: the traditional universities and the universities of applied sciences (UAS). The main task of...

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