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Our research is funded by national and international research funders such as the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), the German Research Foundation (DFG), the European Union (EU), by public authorities such as the Federal Office of Public Health (BAG), the Swiss Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office (FSVO), the Swiss Federal Office of Communication (OFCOM), the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), and by foundations such as the Gebert Rüf Foundation and the Foundation Mercator Schweiz.
We also cooperate with the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Google Deep Mind, and the World Health Organization (WHO).
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Runtime |
Funding |
Project title |
Sum |
| 2025-2028 | Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) |
Science Communication in the Age of Artificial Intelligence |
770,148 CHF |
| 2024-2027 | Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) | Alternative Media, Alternative Norms? Link to project | 470,000 CHF |
| 2024-2025 | Digitization Initiative of Zurich Universities (DIZH) |
Digitale Resilienz: Tool für KI- und Deepfake-Kompetenz bei Jugendlichen |
75,000 CHF |
| 2024 | WHO Regional Office for Europe |
Assessing the impact of AI on public health emergency communication in Europe and Central Asia: A Delphi study |
10,000 USD |
| 2023-2025 | Digitization Initiative of Zurich Universities (DIZH) |
SciComm meets Comedy |
40,000 CHF |
| 2023-2025 | Swiss Young Academy |
AI in Science and Society |
4,460 CHF |
| 2023-2024 | Swiss Young Academy |
Science vs Activism? Exploring the Boundary |
47,930 CHF |
| 2022-2025 | CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research | Evaluation of CERN’s communication activities with respect to different audience types | 144,000 CHF |
| 2022-2023 | Media Authority of North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) |
The Effect of Disinformation on Opinion Formation: Experimental Analyses of the Effect and Role of Different Influencing Factors in a Multi-Method Design |
77,000 CHF |
| 2022-2024 | Collaborators’ own funds |
Trust in Science and Science-Related Populism: A Many Labs Study |
ca. 140,000 USD |
| 2022 | EUPRIO, SNSF & IKMZ |
A Cross-national Survey of Communicators at Higher Education Institutions across Europe |
2,500 CHF and own funds |
| 2022 | Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), Swiss Young Academy |
Misinformation and conspiracy theories in online environments. A Delphi study to assess current challenges, problematic developments, and future recommendations |
Own funds |
| 2022 | Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) |
Assessing the impact of Agora-funded projects over the past 10 years: A content analysis of the impact of scientists’ public communication |
24,822 CHF |
| 2022 | Digital Society Initiative (DSI) |
The DSI Information Abundance Project: Studying the Concept, Conditions & Consequences of Information Abundance |
32,231 CHF |
| 2021-2024 | Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) & German Science Foundation (DFG) |
Imaginaries of Artificial Intelligence: The Communicative Construction of AI in China, Germany and the US |
633,637 CHF |
| 2020-2023 | Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) |
Science-related conspiracy theories online: Mapping their characteristics, prevalence and distribution internationally and developing contextualized counter-strategies |
249,923 CHF |
| 2021-2022 | Swiss Federal Office of Communication |
Disinformation on COVID-19 vaccination on YouTube: An analysis of content, impact, and subsequent verification processes via online search |
49,965 CHF |
| 2021-2022 |
Swiss Young Academy |
What can we learn from COVID-19 fake news about the spread of scientific misinformation in general? |
63,000 CHF |
| 2020-2021 | Participatory Science Academy, Stiftung Mercator Schweiz |
Assessing the Potential of Citizen Science in Switzerland |
70,000 CHF |
| 2020 | Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences |
Wissenschaftsbarometer, COVID19 edition |
23,700 CHF |
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2019-2023 |
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) |
Status Quo and Development of Public Communication Efforts of Swiss Institutions of Higher Education |
579,924 CHF |
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2019-2022 |
European Union, Horizon 2020, Marie Curie Fellowship |
Fakeology – Fake news and pseudo-science as post-modern mythology: The case of the anti-vaccination movement |
278,840 EUR |
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2019-2020 |
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Online-Forschung e.V. (DGOF) |
Debunking health myths online |
2,225.75 EUR |
| 2025-2031 | Gebert Rüf Foundation, University of Zurich, ETH Board, Swiss National Science Foundation, Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences |
Science Barometer Switzerland (2025-2031) |
375,000 CHF |
| 2016-2024 |
Gebert Rüf Foundation, Foundation Mercator Schweiz, IKMZ |
Science Barometer Switzerland (2016-2024) |
314,000 CHF |
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2014-2022 |
UZH |
CHESS - Center for Higher Education and Science Studies |
570,000 CHF |
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2019-2021 |
Swiss Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office |
How Can Scientific Facts Be Communicated Efficiently? |
379,903 CHF |
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2017-2019 |
UZH Forschungskredit “Candoc” |
Scientific Online Literacy. Concept Development and Application |
110,000 CHF |
|
2019 |
UZH Graduate Campus |
Management of the Peer-Mentoring Group "MFG - MedienforscherInnengruppe" |
4,580 CHF |
|
2017-2019 |
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), Scientific Exchanges Scheme |
Voicing Terrorism |
6,000 CHF |
| 2017-2020 |
UZH, CHESS |
APiKS – Academic Profession in the Knowledge-Based Society |
Own funds |
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2017-2019 |
Stiftung Mercator Schweiz |
Audience Segmentation in Switzerland: An In-Depth Analysis Following up the Science Barometer Switzerland |
72,000 CHF |
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2018 |
UZH & Free University of Berlin Joint Seed Funding |
Social Bots in the Networked Public Sphere |
3,000 EUR |
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2018 |
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), Gebert Rüf Foundation, UZH |
Crowdfunding Science Festival |
27,000 CHF |
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2017-2018 |
CREST: Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology, University of Stellenbosch |
Climate Change Perceptions Among South African Publics |
12,000 CHF |
|
2015-2018 |
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) |
Transnational Political Public Spheres? The Example of Climate Politics |
284,991 CHF |
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2015-2016 |
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford |
Climate Change Communication Online: Comparing Established and New Platforms in Six Countries |
Own funds |
|
2016 |
UZH Communication Team |
Readership Survey: UZH Communication |
15,000 CHF |
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2014-2015 |
German Research Foundation (DFG), Federal Cluster of Excellence “CliSAP”, IKMZ |
Perception of Climate Change Visuals. A Q-Study in Austria, Germany and Switzerland |
8,000 EUR |
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2012 |
German Research Foundation (DFG), Federal Cluster of Excellence “CliSAP |
Opinion Leaders Online |
20,000 EUR |
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2012 |
German Research Foundation (DFG), Federal Cluster of Excellence “CliSAP” |
Mediatization of Climate Science |
21,000 EUR |
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2011 |
German Research Foundation (DFG), Federal Cluster of Excellence “CliSAP” |
Climate Change, Energy Preferences, Political Participation |
101,000 EUR |
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2011 |
German Research Foundation (DFG), Federal Cluster of Excellence “CliSAP” |
Global Media Map on Climate Change |
18,000 EUR |
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2009-2012 |
German Research Foundation (DFG), Federal Cluster of Excellence “Languages of Emotions” |
Comparing Western and Arab TV Presentations of Terrorism |
160,000 EUR |
