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Places where the university is involved
A nature reserve, a classroom, or railway station in the Bernese Oberland—at first glance you wouldn’t guess it, but the university is active in all of these places and more, working with the local community, as those involved can attest.
“The scientific support provided to the nature parks by the University of Bern’s Centre for Development and Environment (CDE) shows that both our work and the local community are truly valued.” – Rahel Burger, ranger at Chasseral Nature Park
“With support from the University of Bern’s Mobiliar Lab for Natural Risks, we are preparing ourselves for potential flood events.” – Urs Lüthi, head of the Department of Residents and Security in Burgdorf, on the Emme River
The course of the Emme River near Burgdorf. Flooding can also occur here.
“It’s nice to bring greenery into places that would otherwise have none.” – Ermira and Gianluca, local residents helping to enliven the old town through the University of Bern project “Greenest Alley in Switzerland.”
“Working with the University of Bern helps us develop tourism in a sustainable way and balance the needs of residents and visitors alike. I really value that.” – Beat Bucher, mayor of Grindelwald
The University of Bern is researching how tourist flows – such as here at Grindelwald railway station – can be managed more effectively.
“With the teaching materials provided by the Center for Space and Habitability (CSH) at the University of Bern for the Stellarium Gornergrat I'm able to get students excited about astrophysics.” – Jonas Haldemann, physics teacher at Lerbermatt High School
ABOUT THE INSTITUTE FOR LEGAL ITALIAN LANGUAGE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF BERN
The Istituto di italiano giuridico at the University of Bern (Institute for Italian Legal Language) is the first university center dedicated to the enhancement and promotion of and research into Italian legal language. As Italian is one of the official languages of Switzerland, standard legal texts such as laws and ordinances, procedural texts such as judgments, and administrative texts such as decrees are also written in Italian. Interpretive texts such as monographs, com-mentaries, and scientific articles are also formulated in Italian. The new institute of the Univer-sity of Bern was founded in the city that houses the Federal Assembly of the Swiss Confedera-tion and the Federal Council, and therefore maintains direct relations and close collabora-tions with the Federal Chancellery, Legislation and Language Section, and the State Council of the Canton of Ticino
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A part of Bern
This article first appeared in uniFOKUS, the University of Bern print magazine. Four times a year, uniFOKUS focuses on one specialist area from different points of view. Current focus topic: A part of Bern.
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