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It is time of the year again! The 2020 crop of exciting research entreprises spans a wide spectrum of questions to be addressed, from institutional complexity to the transactions and exchanges individuals enter into as refugees or returnees to their countries. You can find here https://snis.ch/years/2020/ the complete list of projects and read about the innovative ways chosen to tackle them

Year: 2020 Navigating Institutional Complexity: Actors and Strategies in Densely Populated Global Governance Spaces University of St. Gallen 2020 Oliver Westerwinter Political Economy, Political Science How can we understand global governance? read more

A quoi ça sert de communiquer la science et la recherche? L'entretien de Charles Roduit, du programme FNS Agora éclaire & pointe quelques pistes pour l'avenir dans ce domaine.

ScienceComm20 - Entretien avec Charles Roduit Désormais, les activités de dissemination et vulgarisation de la science sont prises en compte dans le processus d'évaluation des carrières académiques. Une ...

SNIS encourages its researchers and project leaders to share their scientific results with the wider public and a variety of audiences. As the field of Science Communication matures and starts hosting different types of actors - at the same time as public outreach becomes a hard criterion in the evaluation of academics' careers - we seek to inform our public about advances and debates, so as to open up possibilities for dissemination.

In this interview with Dr. Richard -Emmanuel Eastes (in French) , from Segallis, we find out about the main faultlines in science communication - scientific mediation versus popularisation - and what it takes to be an efficient communicator in this field.

ScienceComm20 - Entretien avec Richard - Emmanuel Eastes Quelle est la différence entre la médiation culturelle et la vulgarisation de la science? Richard - Emmanuel Eastes l'explique dans cet entretien, tout en po...

We are proud to be funding emerging innovative research with the potential of changing individual lives for the better. This is the case with the project "Improving Protection of Persons with Disabilities during Armed Conflict" https://bit.ly/2FPOyWB Listen to the podcasts on the project page for more details about how that happens!

Improving Protection of Persons with Disabilities during Armed Conflict | Swiss Network for International Studies Over one billion people worldwide suffer from some form of disability, half of which are in states affected by armed conflict. Conflict not only directly results in disability, persons with disabilities are at higher risk of injury or death during armed conflict, either as specific targets or throug...

Born of the research on the effects of pesticides on human health, and conducted by a team of SNIS filmmakers - Bernhard Fuhrer and Damien Marti - Pestrop - a documentary on the use of pesticides in Uganda will be shown this weekend at the Gödöllò Film festival. Congratulations to the research and production teams who have worked together for a timely and interesting film https://bit.ly/33bLvzQ

Film reviews The efficiency of nature and environmental protection is the key to the survival of our civilization. The aim of the Festival is to highlight this message to the audience.

Summer is crop time. At SNIS this means publications and projects progress. The SNIS-funded project Coalstake has issued its first peer-reviewed article "Decline: an emerging frontier for the study and practice of decarbonization" https://bit.ly/2Ce1lk1 and its general public companion piece "Decline in carbon-intensive arrangements can help mitigate climate change" https://bit.ly/3ir5G2y

Decline in carbon-intensive arrangements can help mitigate climate change - Advanced Science News Deliberate decline in carbon-intensive practices is currently taking shape as a new way to confront climate change.

The 2020 - 2021 SNIS IO stipend was granted to Ms.Krittika Uniyal and Ms. Shriya Patnaik, whose PhD research involves archival research in International Organisations in Geneva.

Here are the two research outlines

Shriya Patnaik explores the encounter between experiential accounts and international and national policy discourses in the case of stigmatized groups of women in India. To this end she develops an ethnographic and archival research, the latter through ILO and UN archives. During the SNIS IO Stipend she will be sieving through ILO’s archival collections.

Krittika Uniyal is a Ph.D. scholar at the research Hub for Environmental Governance and Territorial Development of the University of Geneva’s Institute for Environmental Sciences. In her research she is looking at the China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in Nepal. The BRI is attracting a lot of attention across the world, raising important scholarly questions concerning China’s relationship with its neighbors, China’s role in the international system, and the very understanding of the nature and evolution of the international system and international cooperation. In contributing answers to these concerns, her thesis will examine discourses of critique and justification concerning China’s BRI in the region.

Summer is production time at SNIS! We are conducting interviews with Famelab participants to find out more about the mechanics of science communication. https://www.britishcouncil.ch/famelab/how-it-works Watch this space for more news!

How does it work? | British Council Find out about what's required of you and how Famelab works

Join us on Friday 26th in Bern between 10h -14h for an encounter with and about the UN @ 75! Participate in the and & fill the about how the future should look like.

Interested in joining the on ? Visit us in Bern for the event in June 26, 2020. , ,

Help us create a better future, one conversation at a time. #UN75 You can help and participate in the UN75 initiative. Visit www.un.org/UN75 and tell us what you think. It’s the largest, most inclusive discussion in 2020 ar...

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will meet you on the in Bern from 10h -14h to celebrate 75 years of UN and talk about the next 25! Watch this space for more info!
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In our series - "Mapping Controversial Memories in the Historic Urban Landscape" - a project from 2014 has a definite echo in the present. Read it for a cool headed understanding of current heated debates.

Mapping Controversial Memories in the Historic Urban Landscape: A Multidisciplinary Study of Beijing, Mexico City and Rome | Swiss Network for International Studies Over the past decade, heritage management has become key to sustainable urban development. An increasing proportion of the world’s population lives in cities, yet few policies ensure strategic balance between urban development and conservation. Opportunities for innovative reuse of urban space als...