Collegium Helveticum
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The Collegium Helveticum is a Zurich-based, transdisciplinary Institute for Advanced Study. It is a joint institution of the University of Zurich, ETH Zurich and the Zurich University of the Arts. Its mission is to promote encounter and dialogue between the humanities and social sciences, the natural and engineering sciences, the medical sciences, and the arts. The core of the scientific and artistic work at the Collegium Helveticum is its international and interdisciplinary fellow program.
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The focus of the Collegium Helveticum is on promoting intellectual independence and interdisciplinary exchange both among its scientific and artistic fellows and with the international research community.
The Collegium Helveticum is part of the international scientific networks UBIAS (University-Based Institutes for Advanced Study) and NetIAS (Network of European Institutes for Advanced Study). In addition to the research activities of its fellows, the Collegium Helveticum organizes events on the interaction of science and art with business, culture, society and the environment. Furthermore, it forms a platform for the development, implementation and reflection of collaborative, interdisciplinary research projects, partly in cooperation with other institutions and initiatives.
The Collegium Helveticum has been headed by Sebastian Bonhoeffer since January 1, 2021.
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The Collegium Helveticum was founded by the ETH in 1997. Until 2004, the core of the Collegium Helveticum was an interdisciplinary graduate school for young scientists from the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich. Since 2004, the Collegium Helveticum has been jointly supported by ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich. At the same time, the structure was introduced with fellows elected for five years who work on a jointly defined focus topic. Since 2016, the Zurich University of the Arts has acted as a third university within the sponsorship.
The Fellows of the period 2004-2009 dealt with the focus topic "The role of emotions: their part in human action and in the setting of social norms", the following Fellow period (2009-2016) with "Reproducibility, Prediction, Relevance". For the 2016-2020 Fellow term, which began in the fall semester, the theme was "Digital Societies." In 2021, the Collegium Helveticum has realigned its fellow program: Junior Fellows and Senior Fellows will now work on individual scientific and artistic projects with an interdisciplinary approach for a maximum period of 10 months.
The first director of the Collegium Helveticum was Adolf Muschg. In 1998, the directorship passed to Helga Nowotny, who held it until her retirement in 2002. Peter Rieder was the interim director of the Collegium Helveticum until the end of September 2004. Between 2004 and 2015, Gerd Folkers served as director, followed by Thomas Hengartner (from 2016). After his death in 2018, the institute was led on an interim basis by Hartmut von Sass until 2020 and then by Christian Ritter until 2021.
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The Collegium Helveticum is hosted by the Semper Observatory of the ETH Zurich. The construction of the observatory is closely associated with the mathematician and astronomer Rudolf Wolf (1816-1893), who was appointed professor of astronomy at the newly founded Swiss Federal Polytechnic in Zurich in 1855, and with Gottfried Semper (1803-1879), professor of architecture and head of the building school at the Zurich Polytechnic.
In 1981, the supra-municipal inventory of the preservation of historical monuments for the city of Zurich was put into effect by resolution of the cantonal government, making the observatory a protected object of cantonal importance. After an extensive restoration (1995-1997), the observatory has housed the Collegium Helveticum since 1997.
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Website of the Collegium Helveticum
Portrait on the website of Netias.
Entry on the website of UBIAS.
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