Swiss Science Council
| Swiss Science Council (SWR) | |
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| Headquarters | Bern |
| French name | Conseil suisse de la science (CSS) |
| Italian name | Consiglio svizzero della scienza (CSS) |
| Chief | President Gerd Folkers |
| Deputy | Franz Schultheis |
| Employees | 11 |
| At sight | Federal Council |
| Website | www.wissenschaftsrat.ch |
The Swiss Science Council SWR was founded on March 26, 1965. From 2000 to 2013 he was called the Swiss Science and Technology Council SWTR, from 2014 to 2017 the Swiss Science and Innovation Council SWIR . Since 2018 it has used the original name when it was founded.
organization
The legal form is that of an extra-parliamentary commission, the legal basis are in particular Articles 54 and 55 of the Federal Act on the Promotion of Research and Innovation (RIPA).
A council with 15 members (professors from different disciplines) is attached to the president. The office is headed by Claudia Acklin, 6 people work as scientific advisors, 2 in the information service and 2 in administration at SWR.
tasks
The SWR advises the federal government on all issues relating to science, higher education, research and innovation policy in Switzerland. The aim of his work is the “continuous optimization of the framework conditions for the prosperous development of the Swiss education, research and innovation landscape”. He regularly publishes reports and studies on current science policy issues.
It issues statements on individual projects or problems in the education, research and innovation area (ERI) on behalf of the Federal Council or on its own initiative and also acts as an evaluation committee. The information service compiles information on ERI topics in Switzerland and abroad.
The work program for 2016 to 2019 includes overarching topics (e.g. sustainable university and university landscape), political topics, as well as evaluations, appraisals and impact assessments.
Web links
- Urs Hafner: Fifty years of the Swiss Science Council Dissent as an opportunity. In: NZZ of October 2, 2015
- Urs Hafner: From Science Council to Innovation Council. The historical development of the Swiss Science Council from an outside perspective . SWIR publication 4/2015 on edudoc.ch
- Interview from April 19, 2016 with Gerd Folkers on watson.ch
- Carl Pfaff : Swiss Science and Technology Council (SWTR). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Individual evidence
- ^ [1] Short biography of Gerd Folkers on Wissenschaftsrat.ch
- ↑ Explanation of the name change back to SWR
- ↑ Federal law on the promotion of research and innovation
- ^ Organization chart of the SWR
- ↑ SWR website
- ^ Publications of the SWR