No mountain or tower is too high in Switzerland

20 March 2024

Der Weisse Turm (White Tower) of Mulegns (canton Graubünden) is breaking all kinds of records. It will be the world’s tallest digitally printed (3D) building (but no Tower of Babylon in the multilingual canton), a unique prototype and an important milestone for global digital transformation. The White Tower is an architectural icon, installation space and … Read more » “No mountain or tower is too high in Switzerland”

Quadrilingual Switzerland in the picture by HistoriaHelvetica

29 January 2024

The website historiaHelvetica.ch is a new quadrilingual initiative which publishes documents from four history platforms: notreHistoire.ch (French), lanostraStoria.ch (Italian), nossaistorgia.ch (Romansh) and unsereGeschichte.ch (German). The portal combines the best photos, videos and audio archives published by the public and institutions in the country’s four language regions. The content, selected by regional publishers, offers a unique … Read more » “Quadrilingual Switzerland in the picture by HistoriaHelvetica”

Dies academicus of the University of Basel and Artificial Intelligence

30 November 2023

The Dies academicus of the University of Basel took place on 24 November 2023 in the town’s oldest parish church, the Martinskirche (11th century). It is an appropriate location for the country’s oldest University.  Martinskirche Erasmus (1469-1536) did not live long enough to experience it. Still, in 1538, the Erasmus Foundation (Erasmusstiftung) for scholarships for … Read more » “Dies academicus of the University of Basel and Artificial Intelligence”