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SwissCore is Switzerland's Brussels-based liaison and information office for cooperation in ERI and is funded by the SERI, the Swiss National Science Foundation and Innosuisse. [14] Swissuniversities coordinates the Swiss activities of EURAXESS, a European initiative that supports researcher mobility and career development, which are funded by ...
Martina Hirayama has been State Secretary for Education, Research and Innovation (SBFI) since 1 January 2019. In this role, she is the head of 280 employees and is responsible for an annual budget of CHF 4.5 billion. [7] Martina Hirayama has held dual German-Swiss citizenship since 2009. In 2019, Martina Hirayama took part in the Bilderberg ...
The Council of States reflects the federal nature of Switzerland: seats are distributed by state , not by population. Most cantons send two representatives, but the historic half-cantons (Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Appenzell Innerrhoden, Obwalden, Nidwalden, Basel-Stadt and Basel-Landshaft) each send one. [3]
In the field of translation studies a bitext is a merged document composed of both source- and target-language versions of a given text. Bitexts are generated by a piece of software called an alignment tool, or a bitext tool, which automatically aligns the original and translated versions of the same text. The tool generally matches these two ...
The new preamble also provides a provision about responsibility before and the rights of the future generations of the people of Switzerland. The general provisions contained in Title 1 (articles 1–6) define the characteristic traits of the Swiss state on all of its three levels of authority: federal, cantonal and municipal.
Below is a list of presidents of the Swiss Confederation (1848–present). It presents the presiding member of the Swiss Federal Council, the country's seven-member executive.
The rise of Switzerland as a federal state began on 12 September 1848, with the creation of a federal constitution in response to a 27-day civil war, the Sonderbundskrieg. The constitution, which was heavily influenced by the United States Constitution and the ideas of the French Revolution , was modified several times during the following ...
Quarto is the journal of the Swiss National Library and focuses on a different one of Switzerland's four literatures (German, French, Italian and Romansh) with texts and essays on the featured literature. The journal is published once or twice each year.