The Digital Society Initiative (DSI) at the University of Zurich is launching DigitalTransfer. The new platform (mainly in German) brings together video content from teaching and research and makes basic digital knowledge accessible to everyone – regardless of prior knowledge or field of study.

Where the archive has gaps, generative AI supplies the missing images – plausible, polished and invented. In the latest column in the DSI Insights series, DIZH Bridge Professor Roland Meyer writes about synthetic images of history and what they cost us.a

The third Structure Call of the DIZH Innovation Program is funding two new projects – including the LUDIC CULTURE HUB, which establishes games as an interdisciplinary field of research and practice. Several members of the DSI are part of the project team.

The UZH Innovathon 2026 «The Digitalization of Mobility» brings together master's and PhD students from all disciplines from September 10 to October 2, as they work in interdisciplinary teams with partners BKW, Sika, and Emil Frey on real-world mobility challenges.

Newly appointed professors and private lecturers provide an overview of their respective research areas in their inaugural lectures, and at the same time offer an insight into the colorful diversity of teaching and research at the University of Zurich.