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Industrial European regions at risk within the Fit for 55: How far implementing CBAM can mitigate?

The transition to a low-carbon economy can create new job opportunities but may cause job displacement in some sectors that heavily rely on fossil fuels. In order to gain a balanced appraisal in understanding the broader consequences of climate policies, t ...

2025

Public bench - service station for pedestrians

Vincent Kaufmann, Renate Albrecher

Public benches are a key element for active mobility and can be understood as service stations for pedestrians. They contribute to fostering and facilitating sustainable mobility, but are often underestimated or not included in urban planning and policies. ...

2022

Large variation in anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibody prevalence among essential workers in Geneva, Switzerland

Didier Trono, Idris Guessous, Francisco Javier Perez Saez, Francesco Pennacchio, Maria Eugenia Zaballa

Limited data exist on SARS-CoV-2 infection rates across sectors and occupations, hindering our ability to make rational policy, including vaccination prioritization, to protect workers and limit SARS-CoV-2 spread. Here, we present results from our SEROCoV- ...

NATURE RESEARCH2021

The effect of spokesperson attribution on public health message sharing during the COVID-19 pandemic

Robert West, Andreas Oliver Spitz, Ahmad Abu-Akel

It is urgent to understand how to effectively communicate public health messages during the COVID-19 pandemic. Previous work has focused on how to formulate messages in terms of style and content, rather than on who should send them. In particular, little ...

2021

The Neigborhood Unit: Relevance of an architectural tool

Valentin Daniel Maurice Bourdon, Chiara Monterumisi

Over the last few decades, the notion of common has occupied an increasingly prominent place in the interdisciplinary debate as an alternative political horizon to neo-liberal dynamics and in turn as an envision of new social engagement also in the domain ...

2020

The Neighbourhood Unit. The relevance of an architectural tool

Valentin Daniel Maurice Bourdon, Chiara Monterumisi

2020

Digital Governance Drivers and Challenges for Resilience in AI-Driven Innovation of Public Sector

Gianluigi Viscusi, Gianluca Carlo Misuraca

Digitalization is not anymore an emergent phenomenon but the actual shape of everyday life interactions and transactions (Degryse 2016; Tilson et al. 2010; Yoo 2013). Compared to the private sector, where businesses have deployed initiatives to change thei ...

2019

Die multiplen Rechenschaftspflichten von öffentlichen Unternehmen gegenüber dem Staat - Eine empirische Typologie der Entstehung und des Managements inkohärenter Erwartungen

Fabian Liechti

State-owned enterprises (SOEs) provide important services such as power supply, postal services and public transportation. In doing this, SOEs operate at the intersection of political/regulatory and economic expectations. Therefore, SOEs are commonly consi ...

EPFL2019

From Public Value to Social Value of Digital Government: Co-Creation and Social Innovation in European Union Initiatives

Gianluigi Viscusi, Gianluca Carlo Misuraca

This paper discusses the development of key features in European Union policy and service redesign, based on social innovative practices where co-creation and the related phenomenon of digital social innovation have a high potential impact. The idea undern ...

2019

Repair as Practice and Knowledge. An Ethnography of Two Repair Cafés

Jérôme Baudry

Current repair initiatives, from networks of repair cafés run by local volunteers to community-turned-company iFixit, have been very successful at putting questions of repair and maintenance at the forefront of public debate. However, they have done so in ...

2019

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