Events & Open Calls
Academia
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Event · Academia Watch Party: Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony 2026
Join us for the official Boston watch party of the 36th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, streamed live from the Kongresshaus Zurich.
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Event · Academia Making the Invisible Visible: Microplastics off the Massachusetts Coast
Microplastics are a macro-problem — barely visible to the human eye, they're now found in every ecosystem on Earth. Join Swissnex to discover how Swiss researchers, regional stakeholders, and citizen scientists are collaborating to monitor ocean microplastics on Massachusetts’s coasts.
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Event · Academia Connect Lunch New York City
Are you a Swiss or Swiss-affiliated professor or researcher in New York City? Join Swissnex for lunch on September 10.
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Event · Academia Visualizing Climate Worlds: Data, AI, and Immersive Futures
The data describing our climate — rainfall, rising tides, the metabolism of cities — are vast, technical, and largely invisible. Experience three projects using data, modeling, and visualization to make climate futures legible at different scales.
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Event · Academia BOST-Ig: An Ig Nobel Celebration
Swissnex and Improbable Research present a celebration of the Ig Nobel Prize and research that first makes you laugh, then makes you think.
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Event · Academia, Startups Built Different: The Cities We Need
How to implement the low-carbon city? At Climate Week NYC, Swissnex and ETH Alumni bring together ETH spin-offs, engineers, architects, and environmental scientists to map out the critical next steps.
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