The official working visit by Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang comes as Switzerland and China celebrate 75 years of bilateral relations. After meeting federal councillors Guy Parmelin and Ignazio Cassis in ...

Dübendorf, St. Gallen und Thun, 20.01.2025 - Mining the Atmosphere, a new Empa research initiative, aims at capturing excess CO₂ from the atmosphere and storing it in building materials such as ...

The Producer and Import Price Index remained unchanged in December 2024 compared with the previous month, at 106.3 points (December 2020 = 100). Compared with December 2023, the price level of the ...

Bern, 15.01.2025 - From 4 February, citizens of Vanuatu will no longer be able to enter the Schengen area (which includes Switzerland) without a visa. According to the EU, citizenship programmes in ...

Every year, the general meetings of the limited companies controlled by the federal government set the upper limits for senior management remuneration for the following year. This say-on-pay process ...

Bern, 17.01.2025 - The 55th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum will take place in Davos next week. Six members of the Federal Council will be attending the event. President Karin Keller-Sutter ...

Bern, 16.01.2025 - Federal Councillor Guy Parmelin will travel to Berlin on 17/18 January. There he will visit the world’s largest trade fair for food, agriculture and horticulture, attend the Global ...

Bern, 15.01.2025 - Flight operation with the reconnaissance drone system (ADS 15) of the Swiss Armed Forces has been temporarily suspended following an incident with a Hermes 900 HFE drone in India.

Bern, 16.01.2025 - Chief of Armament Urs Loher will be meeting with the Swedish Chief of Armament Göran Mårtensson from 16 to 17 January 2025 as part of a bilateral meeting in Switzerland. The focus ...

Dübendorf, St. Gallen und Thun, 14.01.2025 - For years, start-ups have been able to count on the support of the business incubators glatec and Startfeld. They accompany Empa's young companies on their ...

In 2023, business enterprises invested CHF 18 billion in their R&D activities in Switzerland, an annual increase of 3.5% over 2021, which was the last time the survey was carried out. At almost CHF 5.

The aim of the Swiss data ecosystem is to break down the silo structures used to hold and manage data by creating common spaces for data sharing. These are environments in which data on specific ...