News from BFH-HAFL

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Ten years of master’s studies: Looking back, looking forward

26.09.2019 The master’s programme at BFH-HAFL was launched in 2009. Much has happened since then. At the master’s symposium, experts, sector representatives and alumni reviewed what has been achieved, discussed current...

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BFH-HAFL gets its first institute

27.01.2020 BFH-HAFL in Zollikofen is getting its first institute. The interdisciplinary HAFL Hugo P. Cecchini Institute will focus on promoting sustainability on smallholdings in developing and emerging countries.

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Ute Seeling becomes director of the HAFL

27.01.2020 The University Board of the Bern University of Applied Sciences has chosen Ute Seeling to be the new director of the School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences HAFL. She has been the director of the...

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BFH suspends classroom teaching

13.03.2020 Coronavirus pandemic: By order of the authorities, all classroom teaching is suspended at universities with immediate effect. Further information will follow.

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Teaching by distance learning successfully underway

24.03.2020 Following the suspension of face-to-face teaching due to the corona pandemic, the Bern University of Applied Sciences has successfully introduced distance learning.

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Career Services BFH: All about your career start!

06.05.2020 On the redesigned BFH Career Services website www.bfh.ch/career-services-en students as well as young alumni can find information on issues relating to starting a career after graduation. For interested...

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Researcher Diaries: Constraints and Opportunities of Cassava Seed Systems in South India

27.08.2020 In his #ThrowbackThursday contribution to the new Researcher Diaries series, Sebastian Mengel of the HAFL Hugo P. Cecchini Institute looks back on a day in the field in South India in August 2018.

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New process simplifies microbial conversion of biomass into chemicals

27.08.2020 A team of scientists at BFH-HAFL has developed a process which uses an artificial consortium of microorganisms to convert wood into water-soluble sugars and further into chemicals in a single step.

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The new BFH-HAFL director

01.09.2020 Ute Seeling became the new director of BFH-HAFL on 1 September 2020, a role she undertook with pride and pleasure: ‘The school enjoys a very good reputation in Switzerland and far beyond’.

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Researcher Diaries: How mulch impacts crop yield in the tropics – a case study from Bolivia

03.09.2020 In her contribution to the Researcher Diaries series, Laura Kuonen, a BFH-HAFL Master’s Programme student, describes a day ploughing the field in Cochabamba, Bolivia in January 2019.

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Online instead of on-site: Presentation of Bachelor’s and Master’s theses

24.09.2020 Because of the coronavirus, there will be no colloquia or poster exhibition on-site in connection with this year’s graduation ceremonies at BFH-HAFL. Instead you will find the contributions online.

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BFH-HAFL students take part in the largest conference on tropical agriculture in central Europe

05.10.2020 From 9 to 11 September nine BFH-HAFL students participated in the largest annual conference on tropical agriculture in central Europe, Tropentag. Their presentations ranged from coffee agroforestry systems...