Portrait of the National Research Programme (NRP 77)
Digital Transformation
Digital Transformation Today, digital technology influences our lives in many areas: smartphones, chat services, and social media are changing the way we live together in families, groups, organisations, and society. Digital tools are also omnipresent in the economy, the world of work and the education system, and consequently affect how entire companies work, how we interact with each other at the workplace and how we make private and political decisions. Digitalisation and social changes influence each other. The Swiss population can benefit from this interrelationship in a wide range of areas: the emergence of new business fields, more straightforward communication, increasingly efficient work processes, and participatory collaborations. However, digitalisation can also have negative consequences, thus sparking fears of job loss, of restriction of personal freedom, or democracy. Some even fear that we will lose control over machines powered by artificial intelligence.
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The National Research Programme «Digital Transformation» (NRP 77) aims to investigate such interrelationships. Its goal is to identify opportunities, mitigate risks, answer questions, and present policy options for our country. To be able to do so, it is necessary to analyse the consequences of digital change in various fields in the Swiss context. This is achieved through 46 research projects, divided into three programme modules covering the areas of 1) «Education, learning and digital change», 2) «Ethics, trustworthiness and
governance», and 3) «Digital economy and labour market». Potential interventions and solutions will be developed, thus laying the foundation for optimal management and governance of current and future digital transformation. The research findings will be used to formulate concrete recommendations and solutions for the optimal management of digital change. The NRP 77 has a total budget of 30 million Swiss francs. It was launched in 2020 and will run for five years.
Module 1 «Education, learning and digital change»
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Module 2 «Ethics, trustworthiness and governance»
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Module 1 «Education, learning and digital change»
Module 2 «Ethics, trustworthiness and governance»
Module 3 «Digital economy and labour market»
What are the advantages of tablets, robots, or augmented reality in the classroom? How can the productivity of group processes be increased? What skills do teachers need for digital teaching? How can digital means of communication in hospitals optimise care?
What is artificial intelligence allowed to do, and to what extent can we trust this technology? What is the use of digital health data and who benefits from this information? Can artificial intelligence be fair? And how do digitalised media change public opinion formation and consequently democratic processes?
How can collaborations between human beings and intelligent machines be optimised? To what extent do digital technologies change the demands on working individuals and the labour market as a whole? And how can the balance between work and private life be maintained?
This module examines the effects of digitalisation on education, on the one hand in terms of content, skills and the imparting of competencies, and on the other hand in terms of lifelong learning processes and institutions relevant to education.
This module focuses on the ethical, organisational, legal, and technical challenges related to securing and strengthening trust in digital infrastructures or digital services. These challenges will in particular be examined for individual, relevant areas and technologies such as artificial intelligence or digital democracy.
This module focuses on the impact of digital change on the labour market, as well as on the economy in terms of productivity and competitiveness. The aim is to examine new digital markets, organisational forms, business models and the effects on the world of work, work organisation and content, as well as to investigate the regional development in Switzerland.
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Projects
Module 1 «Education, learning and digital change»
Robotrust Farinaz Fassa Recrosio Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lausanne
Scie nce and highe r e ducation
Learning analytics dashboards
Katja Rost
Pierre Dillenbourg
Department of Sociology, University of Zurich
Computer-Human Interaction in Learning and Instruction CHILI, EPF Lausanne
Older adults Sabina Misoch
Nursing education
Institute for Ageing Research, Eastern Switzerland
Ines Trede
University of Applied Sciences
Swiss Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training, Zollikofen
E-inclusion
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Gabriela Antener
Compute r scie nce conce pts
Institute for Integration and Participation,
Eva Marinus
University of Applied Sciences and Arts
Institute for Media and School, Schwyz University
Northwestern Switzerland
of Teacher Education
Education te chnologie s
Te ache r compe te ncie s
Olivier Ertz
Dorothee Brovelli
Media Engineering Institute, University of Applied
Research and Development, University of Teacher
Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland
Education Lucerne
Virtual re ality in schools
Computational thinking
Information consumption
Corinna Martarelli
Francesco Mondada
Nathalie Giger
Faculty of Psychology, UniDistance Suisse
Mobile Robotic Systems Group, EPF Lausanne
Geneva School of Social Sciences, University of Geneva
Educational monitoring Ingo Barkow
Ne ws re comme nde r syste ms
Swiss Institute for Information Science, University
Frank Esser
of Applied Sciences of the Grisons
Department of Communication and Media Research (IKMZ), University of Zurich
Digital transformation of upper secondary schools
Module 2 «Ethics, trustworthiness and governance»
Digital information re pe rtoire s
Dominik Petko
Mark Eisenegger
Institute of Education, University of Zurich
Department of Communication and Media Research (IKMZ), University of Zurich
Digital learning games Dominique Jaccard
Gove rnance and artificial inte llige nce
Cybersecurity
Media Engineering Institute, University of Applied
Klaus Möller
Markus Christen
Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland
Institute of Accounting, Control & Auditing,
UZH Digital Society Initiative, University of Zurich
University of St. Gallen
Collaborative learning
Control ove r artificial inte llige nce
Carmen Zahn
Local communication
Thomas Burri
Institute for Research and Development of
Matthias Künzler
Law School, University of St. Gallen
Collaborative Processes, University of Applied
Institut für Multimedia Production, University
Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland
of Applied Sciences of the Grisons
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Module 3 «Digital economy and labour market»
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Digital de mocratic innovations
Connected workplace
Marc Bühlmann
Tobias Mettler
Année Politique Suisse, University of Bern
IDHEAP Swiss Graduate School of Public
Module 3 «Digital economy and labour market»
Administration, University of Lausanne
Fair algorithms Christoph Heitz
Digital health
Organisations and marke ts
Institute of Data Analysis and Process Design,
Effy Vayena
Mathias Beck
Zurich University of Applied Sciences
Department of Health Sciences and Technology,
KOF Swiss Economic Institute, ETH Zurich
ETH Zurich
Judgme nt anonymisation
Work-life boundary manage me nt
Andreas Lienhard
Digital democracy
Michaela Knecht
KPM Center for Public Management, University
Regula Hänggli
Institute Humans in Complex Systems, University
of Bern
Department of Communication and Media
of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern
Research, University of Fribourg
Switzerland
Tenzin Wangmo
Mobile health data
Gig work
Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel
Bernice Elger
Caroline Straub
Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel
New Work Institute, Bern University of
Smart-home-technologies
Trust
Applied Sciences
Peter Schaber The Center for Ethics, University of Zurich
Employment Conny Wunsch Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Basel
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Nurse crowd working
Skill profiles
Online job platforms
Florian Liberatore
Marlis Buchmann
Michael Siegenthaler
Department of Business Law, Zurich University
Department of Sociology, University of Zurich
KOF Swiss Economic Institute, ETH Zurich
of Applied Sciences
Optimal active labour marke t policy Spatial economy
Michael Lechner
Maximilian von Ehrlich
Swiss Institute for Empirical Economic Research,
Department of Economics, University of Bern
University of St. Gallen
Tax competition Marco D’Ambros
Human-artificial intelligence interaction
CodeLounge, Software Institute, Università della
Nadine Bienefeld
Svizzera italiana
Chair of Work and Organizational Psychology, ETH Zurich
Smart cities Edy Portmann
Human-robot inte raction
Human-IST Institut, University of Fribourg
Sarah Dégallier Rochat Department of Engineering and Information
Digital skills
Technology, Bern University of Applied Sciences
Ulrich Kaiser Department of Business Administration,
Me dical de cision support
University of Zurich
Wolf Hautz Department of Emergency Medicine, Inselspital, University of Bern
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Procedure
November 2018 Publication of call
December 2019 Projects’ approval
December 2019 Second call
January 2020 Start of the research projects
January 2020 Monitoring and scientific exchange
December 2024 Completion of the research projects
September 2020 Kick-off Meeting
June 2020 Projects’ approval second call
December 2025 Completion development of programme products
December 2026 End of NRP 77
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