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Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW)

Member Academies

St. Annagasse 18
8001 Zürich Switzerland

T. +41 44 226 50 11 | F. +41 44 226 50 19

info@satw.ch
www.satw.ch

Identity

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Benoît DUBUIS
President

Founding date: 1981
Number of members: 312 individual members, 12 honorary members, 51 member societies
Number foreign members: 29
Management and Staff: 19
Annual Budget: CHF 3.8m
Financing and sources:
Government support: 85%
Industry: 5%
Private funding: 5%
Other: 5%

Mission

– Provide a network of excellence in engineering sciences.
– Support innovation and facilitate transfer of technology
– Promote the understanding of technology and engineering sciences in society.
– Advise Government and society (“honest knowledge broker”)
– Inform the next generation about engineering sciences and motivate them to pursue a career in engineering.
– Build and maintain international relations with excellent peer groups in the field of engineering sciences.

Committees / Main working groups

Additive Manufacturing, Adriaan Spierings – Spierings@inspire.ethz.ch
Autonomous Driving, Wolfgang Kröger – wolfgang.kroeger@satw.ch
Biotechnology/Bioinformatics, Hans-Peter Meyer – hanspeter.meyer@satw.ch
Chemistry, Urs Mäder – ursjmaeder@bluewin.ch
Cyber Security, Bernhard Tellenbach – tebe@zhaw.ch
Industrie 4.0, Patricia Deflorin – patricia.deflorin@htwchur.ch
Artificial Intelligence, Alessandro Curioni – cur@zurich.ibm.com
Food Technology, Erich Windhab – erich.windhab@hest.ethz.ch
Medical Technology, Gabor Székely – szekely@vision.ee.ethz.ch
Resilience, Giovanni Sansavini – sansavig@ethz.ch
Sustainable circular economy, Xaver Edelmann – xaver.edelmann@satw.ch

Highlights 2023

ANNUAL CONGRESS

What security of supply does Switzerland need? This was discussed by leading personalities at the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW) Annual Congress on 17 May 2023 in Zurich, hosted by Google Switzerland. With «Data – Artificial Intelligence» and «Energy», the SATW Annual Congress 2023 featured topics on the podium that sparked to intensive discussions. The congress was fully booked with 280 guests.

TECHNOLOGY OUTLOOK

The new Technology Outlook of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW) brings together the most important findings of 183 experts from science and industry for the Switzerland of tomorrow. Around 300 guests attended the launch at ETH Zurich. The study highlights forward-looking technologies, innovative industrial applications and national and international technology trends and is available at technologyoutlook.ch

CYBER RESILIENCE

Some 70 people from government, business and science attended the networking event organised by the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) and SATW in Bern on 14 September 2023. They explored current and future action areas where national and international cooperation on research and innovation could enhance cyber resilience in Switzerland.