We believe in teamwork and in cultivating a technology instinct

Wherever Swiss universities will jointly implement ICT projects with pioneer character, SWITCH is on their side. Since networking the academic community is above all a question of individual input, we make sure they find the latitude they need to do a proper job of work – in our working groups.

Grid

Services for scientific computing

Grid technology is needed wherever researchers work across organisational boundaries on problems that require a high computing power. SWITCH is engaged in pioneering work throughout Switzerland with its Grid project. This will give researchers shared, but controlled access to resources.
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AAA/SWITCH

E-Infrastructure for E-Science

Innovative, sustainable and cooperative – these are the characteristic features of the cooperative projects that are being conducted in the framework of "AAA/SWITCH – e-Infrastructure for e-Science". We are working together with the universities on constructing key components of a national IT infrastructure on a step-by-step basis. The point of departure for this is SWITCHaai, which is internationally pioneering in teaching and research.
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Expertise for the scientific community

Cloud Computing

Along with Swiss researchers, SWITCH is investigating what future prospects standardised cloud solutions might be able to offer within the education and research network.
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Better learning, working and teaching

Learning Infrastructure

A personal "learning and working environment" that can be expanded individually and which students can use their whole life long. Also appropriate e-assessment solutions which universities can deploy to optimise their existing assessment systems and give them a greater practical focus. Those are the two principal issues addressed by SWITCH in its "Learning Infrastructure" project.
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Digital identity for students

E-Identity

Students need a secure, neutral space where they can store and keep up-to-date their work results, career portfolios and contacts – including after they have finished their studies. SWITCH has thus launched the e-identity project with the universities. The aim is to build up a permanently valid, internationally compatible e-identity infrastructure for those pursuing lifelong learning in Switzerland.
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ICT Law Working Group

The meetings of the working group on ICT law provide a forum for debating legal issues affecting the fields of information and communication technology that are of concern to the legal advisors to the Swiss universities. These sessions serve not only the goal of understanding the law better, thanks to the presentations by legal experts, but also constitute an opportunity for meeting face-to-face with others.
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Mail Working Group

The Mail Working Group's agenda for its regular meetings covers everything that is of concern to the mail community. Those SWITCH customers whose professions require them to take a serious interest in this area have the opportunity of meeting with others in similar situations and of adding to their know-how.
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Media Working Group

To ensure that audio and video recordings can be integrated in academic teaching and learning in the correct manner, the multimedia experts at Switzerland's universities have joined forces: in the Media WG.
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Network Working Group

This working group focuses above all on the latest network technologies as well as on projects and plans for cooperating with others in the immediate future. Experts from SWITCH and the Swiss university environment put forward valuable suggestions, exchange ideas amongst themselves and use the opportunity to intensify their one-to-one contacts.
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IT Procurement Working Group

Finding solutions that can work for everyone within the higher education community based on specific individual needs: this is what the expert meetings of the IT Procurement Workgroup are all about. more information

Security Working Group

The Security Working Group's remit is to consider every possible aspect of the theme of IT security. Twice a year, SWITCH-CERT and security experts from the university environment provide information and valuable food for thought, and participants have to opportunity of getting to know one another better and of pooling ideas.
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Storage Working Group

Data packages are snowballing. Just as the user requirements in terms of data security and availability. In the Storage Working Group, those in charge at the Swiss universities engage in a joint search for solutions.
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