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The Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa; German: Eidgenössische Materialprüfungs- und Forschungsanstalt, [2] French: Laboratoire fédéral d’essai des matériaux et de recherche, Italian: Laboratorio federale di prova dei materiali e di ricerca, Romansh: Institut federal da controlla da material e da perscrutaziun,) is a Swiss research institution for ...
Science and technology in Switzerland play an important role in the Swiss economy, which has very few natural resources that are available in the country. The Swiss National Science Foundation , mandated by the Federal government, is the most important institute for promoting scientific research.
École spéciale de Lausanne, 1857 Louis Rivier, founding member of École spéciale de Lausanne. The roots of modern-day EPFL can be traced back to the foundation of a private school under the name École spéciale de Lausanne in 1853 at the initiative of Louis Rivier, a graduate of the École Centrale Paris and John Gay, the then professor and rector of the Académie de Lausanne.
ETH Zurich (German: Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich; English: Federal Institute of Technology Zurich) is a public research university in Zurich, Switzerland. Founded in 1854 with the stated mission to educate engineers and scientists, the university focuses primarily on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics .
The Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) is a multi-disciplinary research institute for natural and engineering sciences in Switzerland. It is located in the Canton of Aargau in the municipalities Villigen and Würenlingen on either side of the River Aare , and covers an area over 35 hectares in size. [ 2 ]
Swissuniversities (stylised as swᴉssunᴉversᴉtᴉes) is the umbrella organization of universities and colleges in Switzerland. [1]Swissuniversities has 38 member institutions, [2] including the two federal institutes of technology, ten cantonal universities, ten (state-run and private) [3] universities of applied sciences, [4] and sixteen universities of teacher education.
The institute is headed by an executive director and executive board, who report to a scientific advisory board and institute council. Administrative structures are said to be kept lean and AMI employs an industry liaison and technology transfer office for partners from industry and academia, dedicated personnel for EU project proposals and a ...
Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research; Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology; Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology; Swiss Laboratory for Doping Analyses