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Hack4SocialGood 2025 collaborating for a digital future in the social sector

Hack4SocialGood brings together people from the social and technology sectors. During a two-day event, they will help social organisations to find solutions for issues in the field of digitalisation.

04.04.2025 until 05.04.2025 – Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz FHNW Von Roll-Strasse 10 4600 Olten

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Digital access for people affected by poverty

02.12.2024 Eight practical ways to support individuals facing poverty in Switzerland: these are the key insights from a recent project at BFH, led by Professor Dr Emanuela Chiapparini and her team.

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Addressing the quality of life in dementia

28.11.2024 Can people with dementia have a good quality of life? A study conducted by three BFH researchers aims to get to the bottom of this question.

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Wanted: Hackathon organizers interested in diversity and inclusion

20.11.2024 The Hack Integration project aims to foster more diverse and inclusive hackathons, bringing high-skill refugees to events, and using suggested team algorithms to form diverse and inclusive teams. To this...

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Homeless seniors: life in the shadows

11.11.2024 The lives of older homeless adults, some without shelter for years, are poorly documented. With its research project, BFH aims to lay the foundations for more targeted support for homeless seniors.

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“A piece of the puzzle for greater autonomy for older people”

06.11.2024 The Federal Council aims to support independent living for older adults by providing supplementary benefits for daily support services. Social gerontologist Riccardo Pardini puts the bill in context.

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Tech for everyone – instead of apps for old age

21.10.2024 What is the connection between new technologies and how we perceive older people? We discussed this question with age researcher Jonathan Bennett.

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‘We are encouraged to shape our own passing.’

03.10.2024 People live longer today, and they die longer, too. This creates new opportunities to shape our end-of-life experience. BFH researchers have recently published a book on this topic.

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How refugees can boost village life

24.09.2024 Researchers at BFH have investigated ways in which refugees can participate in a community’s cultural life. The involvement of refugees and of their talents can be an opportunity for a village community to...

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Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: there’s still much to be done

15.05.2024 The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities came into force ten years ago. Switzerland pledged to eliminate obstacles faced by people with impairments. How much progress has been made so far?

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“A high-performing healthcare system is very expensive”

03.04.2024 In early June, the Swiss people will vote on two initiatives on health insurance premiums. How bad is the state of Switzerland’s healthcare system? Tobias Müller, a healthcare economist at BFH, gives a...

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“Medicine increases life expectancy”

18.03.2024 People in Switzerland are taking more and more medication. For Niklaus Meier, health economist at BFH, this is not a bad sign. Medicine is partly responsible for the fact that our life expectancy is increasing.