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Excellent research and teaching as well as high-quality promotion of young researchers, continuing education and services are the hallmarks of the University of Bern. As a top university, it is internationally networked, locally anchored and socially relevant.

Current

Vice-Rectorate for Quality

"I wanted to take steps in sustainability and equality"

Silvia Schroer has been Vice-Rector for Quality at the University of Bern for six years. On July 31st, she will hand over her position to Heike Mayer. For uniAKTUELL, she looked back on her work as Vice-Rector.
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Digitalisation

Is artificial intelligence currently de-mystifying people?

Digitalization seems to be turning the world as we know it upside down. How can we shape change while defending values that are important to us? An interview with Ernst-Joachim Hossner and Christiane Tretter, head and future head of the Digitalization Commission at the University of Bern.

University

Venture Fellowships enter the second round

New therapies against liver cancer and corneal diseases, a tumor-on-chip technology for drug testing, and an AI-based tool for farmers: these are the innovation projects that have been selected for the second round of the Venture Fellowship Program at the University of Bern.

top-class sport and studies

Balancing act between the tartan track and the lecture hall

Angelica Moser wants to fly high – in sport as well as in her studies. The pole vaulter, one of the best in the world in her discipline, is currently completing her master’s degree at the University of Bern. Studying is the perfect complement to day-to-day training and competition, says the high-flyer.

University of Bern joins European University alliance ENLIGHT

Since 2022, Swiss universities have also been able to participate in European University Alliances as "associated partners" for the first time. The University of Bern joined ENLIGHT, an alliance of comprehensive, research-intensive universities, on 1 December 2022.

People

University and studies

Better decisions in sports and traffic

Christian Vater is one of eight researchers at the University of Bern to receive a coveted Starting Grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation. He will use it to investigate the role of peripheral vision in complex decisions.

University and studies

Starting Grant for researching inflammatory bowel diseases

Immunologist Bahtiyar Yilmaz is one of eight researchers at the University of Bern to receive a coveted Starting Grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation. He will use it to study inflammatory bowel diseases.

University and studies

The health effects of extreme humid heat

Epidemiologist Ana Maria Vicedo Cabrera is one of eight researchers at the University of Bern to receive a coveted Starting Grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation. With her project, she wants to investigate the health effects of extreme humid heat.

University

SNSF Starting Grant: Self-harming behaviour in adolescents

Eight researchers from the University of Bern received coveted Starting Grants from the Swiss National Science Foundation, which allow them to lead their own research project and team. Among them is sociologist Annekatrin Steinhoff.

University and studies

SNSF Starting Grant: Studying Species Coexistence

Eight researchers from the University of Bern received coveted Starting Grants from the Swiss National Science Foundation, which allow them to lead their own research project and team. Among them is biologist Xiang-Yi Li Richter.

University and studies

SNSF Starting Grant: Labour in Islamicate Legal Traditions

Eight researchers from the University of Bern received coveted Starting Grants from the Swiss National Science Foundation, which allow them to lead their own research project and team. Among them is scholar of Islamic and Middle Eastern studies Serena Tolino.

Law

Seminars with Johnny Cash

Martino Mona is Professor of Penal Law and the Philosophy of Law at the University of Bern. What he particularly appreciates about his field is that it is not only socially relevant, but also of intellectual and philosophical significance.
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