Bern University
of Applied Sciences

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Sustainability Science Forum 2025 Save the date

How can a fair and feasible transition to net-zero be achieved? The Sustainability Science Forum explores challenges, opportunities, and ways toward greater justice, innovation, and quality of life.

26.11.2025 – Eventforum Bern

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International Staff Week 2025 PIONEER Alliance

During International Staff Week 2025, themed "pathways to sustainable cities and communities", BFH will present itself as an active partner and expert institution within the PIONEER Alliance. Join us in Bern!

24.11.2025 until 27.11.2025 – Bern

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Sustainability Day of the Bernese Universities 2025 Save the date

The motto of this year's Sustainability Day of the four Bernese universities is ‘Rethinking the future: universities, politics and society working together for change’.

31.10.2025, 8.45am–5pm – Hochschulzentrum vonRoll, Fabrikstrasse 6/8, Bern

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As a librarian, what have you always wanted to ask about open access?

Have you heard of open access, but preprint and secondary publication rights sound like foreign words? Do DOI, APC and CC just look like a jumble of letters to you? Ask your questions now!

21.10.2025, 10am–10.40am until 21.10.2025 – MS Teams

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Opening party of the Bern Sustainability Days 2025

Around 70 Bernese organisations are inviting you to workshops, guided tours and exhibitions as part of the Bern Sustainability Days, offering a varied programme for all ages. Among them are: BFH.

06.09.2025, 11am–5pm – Bern railway station square

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Hello Robot: BFH brings robotics to shopping centres

The Hello Robot exhibition offers an engaging glimpse into how humans and machines might collaborate in the future. This interactive display will tour Coop shopping centres in the Bern-Biel region from...

07.08.2025 until 11.11.2025 – shopping centres in the Bern-Biel region

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How plywood board is being made more sustainable

14.07.2025 The binders used in wood-based materials such as plywood are often based on petroleum products and usually contain formaldehyde. BFH researchers are currently developing an alternative made from minerals...

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Didactics in higher education: Teaching Award 2025 of the Citizens’ Commune Bern

08.07.2025 The Teaching Award of the Citizens’ Commune Bern, which honors didactically outstanding educational units at BFH, goes to Nicole Bosshard, Jörg Berkel and Markus Tiede, as well as to Adrian Stettler.

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“Innovative companies have realised that they have to be caring”

07.07.2025 Are corporate innovativeness and profitability incompatible with a caring approach? No, says Martin Murmann, a researcher on innovation and entrepreneurship at the BFH Business School.