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What keeps women away from STEM professions

Sociology and psychology

Gender differences in preferences and abilities cannot sufficiently explain why female engineers and male primary school teachers remain so rare. Could our image of these professions be responsible?

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Politics and administration

On the state of the nation

How crisis-proof is Swiss democracy? What reforms does our country need? A conversation with historian André Holenstein, constitutional lawyer Andreas Lienhard and political scientist Adrian Vatter.

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Law

“There is a certain randomness about judgments and verdicts”

The scope for interpreting a law is often massive, explains Martino Mona. The Professor of Penal Law at the University of Bern is convinced that prejudices and personal attitudes also play an important role in court rulings.

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Space research

Globi at the University of Bern

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Studies

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Research

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Climate

Bernese researchers advise human rights court

The "climate seniors" criticize that Switzerland is doing too little against climate change. Their complaint is pending before the European Court of Human Rights. Bernese researchers are contributing their expertise to this case – and are now reporting on their findings in "Nature".

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Research collaboration

Funding for international projects under Bernese leadership

Three projects led by the University of Bern are funded by the SNSF as part of the SPIRIT grants. They deal with space research, social geography and medicine.

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Climate science

Additional climate deaths in Switzerland

Global warming is already leading to an increase in heat-related deaths in Switzerland. Researchers at the University of Bern have studied how these numbers will develop in the coming decades – and call for action.

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Health and medicine

Blood poisoning due to fungus

Bernese researchers show how a yeast fungus that is harmless in itself can trigger blood poisoning and receive help from the immune system, of all things.

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People

Gaming for health

Mike Falkner develops video games for older adults with the aim to train memory and fine motor skills – and thus help prevent diseases such as dementia and Parkinson's disease.

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Better surgical outcomes with Deep Learning

Negin Ghamsarian is a postdoctoral researcher at the ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research. She is convinced: Deep Learning facilitates the automatic analysis of surgical videos to better predict postoperative complications and offer more precise surgical interventions.

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Continuing Education

The future of continuing education

Christina Cuonz, Director of the Center for University Continuing Education at the University of Bern, talks in an interview about current opportunities and challenges for university continuing education.

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University and studies

Better decisions in sports and traffic

Sports scientist Christian Vater receives a coveted Starting Grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation. He will use it to study the role of peripheral vision in complex decisions.

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For equality and sustainability

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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"Research must remain independent"

With the UniBE Foundation, the University of Bern supports cutting-edge research. Around two years after its establishment, Executive Director Claudia Lehnherr Mosimann takes stock.

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University

Staff news: June 2023

Five new (full) professorships, four associate professorships, new lecturers, work anniversaries, retirements, awards and honors.

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This is Bern

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The University of Bern is closely associated with the Swiss capital city of Bern. Academic excellence has earned Bern an international reputation. A large variety of education, sport and cultural opportunities as well as high living and environmental standards make Bern an attractive place for undergraduates, researchers and doctoral students.

International exchange opportunities

The University of Bern has over 300 partner universities all over the world. Find out from two of our students why they loved studying abroad.

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Teaching Lunch @ Phil-nat

Le Teaching Lunch interfacultaire, qui a lieu deux fois par an, est organisé par le Vice-rectorat de l'enseignement en collaboration avec une faculté. Il s'adresse aux enseignant·e·s, aux responsables de filières, aux représentant·e·s des étudiant·e·s et à d'autres membres de l'Université qui s'intéressent au thème de l'enseignement de qualité. Le prochain Teaching Lunch aura lieu le 23 octobre 2023 à 12h15 et sera l'occasion d'échanger avec des pairs sur des thèmes d'enseignement actuels.

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Good teaching at the University of Bern

On October 27, 2023, a half-day course "Tips and Tools for Good Teaching" will take place again, where you will learn numerous teaching strategies, teaching methods and ILIAS tools for designing your lessons. You can find more information on the website "Good Teaching" as well as an overview of all services, support and funding measures that contribute to good teaching at the University of Bern.

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War in Ukraine

Information and support

The University of Bern strongly condemns the Russian invasion of Ukraine and supports Ukrainian students and researchers.

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Measures regarding energy supply

Update 17.04.2023: The Cantonal Government decided to suspend the mission of the Special Task Force Energy Shortage as of April 30, 2023. As before, the University of Bern recommends all employees and students to implement energy-saving measures of all kinds in their professional and private environment.

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