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Quote of the Day! 👓 📚
Here's your dose of #mondaymotivation and your German lesson for the day...!
"What concerns everyone can only be resolved by everyone."
#MondayMood #Durrenmatt100 #LiteratureQuotes #durrenmatt #swissliterature
Did you know? 💡
Regarding the performance of European countries towards achieving all #SDGs, #Switzerland was ranked top 8 in the Europe Sustainable Development Report 2020.
Check out #Switzerland’s country profile here: http://bit.ly/38f3JEa
#SDG #ESDR2020
Pressed for money, Friedrich Dürrenmatt stopped all his other work and wrote the play "The Visit", which became an instant success. To this day, it's his biggest international hit. The story of a billionaire returning to her impoverished hometown, promising a fortune for the execution of her ex-lover, has been adapted on stages all over the world, as well as for film and Broadway. Its success shows that this tale of greed and morality remains relevant around the world today.
Have you ever seen "The Visit"? 👀
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#Durrenmatt100
On the centenary of Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s birth, SWI swissinfo.ch examines the global appeal of the Swiss dramatist's 1956 play ‘The Visit’.
#Swiss research at its best!
Scientists from EPFL will develop an #AI-based system that can predict whether #COVID19 patients will develop severe cardiovascular complications and, in the longer term, detect the likely onset of inflammatory disease.
http://bit.ly/38haPbl
Under a cross-disciplinary program spearheaded by EPFL, scientists will develop an AI-based system that can predict whether Covid-19 patients will develop severe cardiovascular complications and, in the longer term, detect the likely onset of inflammatory disease.
100 years ago today, Friedrich Dürrenmatt was born. Author, playright, painter, intellectual, provocateur, bon vivant, and much more. To this day, no other Swiss author’s work has been translated in more languages. To honor and get to know this great artist, we're dedicating the month of January to him.
Join us on this journey and learn more about Dürrenmatt’s plays, texts, paintings, and life!
👉 https://bit.ly/38YEyFh
#Durrenmatt100 #FriedrichDürrenmatt
Amazing «bird find» by our Ambassador Jacques Pitteloud, whose photograph of a rare painted bunting 🦜 landed in the Washington Post!
Have a look at his interview in the Washingtonian for the full story!
http://bit.ly/3hJXT0C
Jacques Pitteloud's photograph landed in the Washington Post. It's far from his first bird coup.
Thank you for embarking on this virtual journey with us in 2020! The Embassy team wishes you and your families a happy and healthy New Year and looks forward to keep strengthening the relations between Switzerland and the United States in 2021.
The Embassy of Switzerland is now closed and will reopen on Monday. Stay safe and healthy! ✨
We hope you enjoyed our holiday concert with Stevans! 🎶
Watch the concert to find out what the Swiss band really wanted for Christmas!
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https://bit.ly/2KKyrw6
Get into the holiday spirit with this concert by Geneva-based band Stevans. The Pop Rock band will give you that extra dose of energy for the holiday season....
Combining theory and practice, apprenticeships are chosen by two thirds of school leavers in Switzerland and contribute to keeping youth unemployment low.
The system evolved over the years, and some 🇨🇭companies based in the 🇺🇸 have introduced Swiss-style apprenticeships at their U.S. locations, often pioneering vocational education and training programs in their region.
http://bit.ly/34TcEZY
A look in the archives of one company shows how modern Swiss vocational training became established – and how much has changed over the years.
Looking for a good way to start the week?
Don't miss our exclusive interview with Swiss singer Yvan Franel from Stevans!
👉 http://bit.ly/3mwo3VB
📷 Nathalie Rochat
#mondaymotivation #music #goodvibes #happyholidays
WATCH: Swiss band Stevans is spreading holiday cheer and we ♥️ it! Happy holidays everybody.
Get into the holiday spirit with this concert by Geneva-based band Stevans. The Pop Rock band will give you that extra dose of energy for the holiday season....
We wish you a happy and safe festive season. The Embassy of Switzerland is now closed and will reopen on Monday. Stay healthy. ❤️❄️
The #holiday season may not look like it usually does -- but we want to share some of the magic and traditions that are usually celebrated around this time of the year in #Switzerland.🇨🇭❄🎄
December is full of magic, festivities and light – although every now and then something other-worldly can emerge. It is a time of year well known for its particularly abundant end-of-year celebrations, especially Christian traditions such as Saint Nicholas (Santa Claus) and Christmas.
RIP to Swiss-born chef, Henry Haller. He catered to five presidents and thrived in The White House kitchen thanks to his high-level skills and flexibility. 🇨🇭🇺🇸
He had the high-level skills necessary for the job but also a welcome flexibility, allowing him to thrive in the, well, pressure-cooker that is the White House.
Job opening: We are looking for a qualified candidate for a 100% permanent position as Office Manager for the Office of the Defense Attaché. To learn more about the position or apply, please visit:https://www.eda.admin.ch/dam/countries/countries-content/united-states-of-america/en/office-manager-swiss-defense-attache_EN.pdf
Happy Friday! We hope you enjoy our exclusive interview with Swiss band Stevans! 🎶
http://bit.ly/3mwo3VB
Take the class of Fred Astaire, blend it with Michael Jackson’s groove and add a touch of Daft Punk’s electro vibe…and you’ll have a taste…
🔊🎶Turn up the volume and get into the holiday spirit with Swiss band Stevans!
We might not be able to #travel yet... but we're constantly daydreaming and planning our ultimate bucket list. 🇨🇭❄️🌞
Our pick of the best things to do in winter in Switzerland - skiing, ice skating, alpine restaurants, thermal spas and more.
Looking for groovy #music for the holiday season? The countdown for our exclusive #holidayconcert with Geneva-based band Stevans is on! Stay tuned for an exceptional #experience on December 17!
Meet STEVANS: the #PopRock band composed of Yvan Franel and Yann Secrest has no lack of enthusiasm, energy and humour!
Very much looking forward to sharing their incredible #performance with you soon!
Calling all graduate and undergraduate #students from U.S. and Canadian universities: Apply now for a ThinkSwiss Research #Scholarship and spend two to three months at a Swiss university in 2021. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to conduct meaningful research in an international setting.
APPLY HERE: https://thinkswiss.org/research-scholarship/
Congratulations to Rogerfederer and Vreni Schneider for being named #Switzerland’s best sportsman and sportswoman of the past 70 years. 🇨🇭🎾⛷️ #MotivationMonday
Roger Federer and Vreni Schneider have been chosen as Switzerland’s best sportsman and sportswoman of the past 70 years.
#happyfriday! We are just daydreaming patiently here until we can #travel again...admiring this naturally formed #ice cave in Les Diablerets - Switzerland.
#internationalmountainday
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An ice cave which forms naturally on a high-altitude glacier in the Swiss Alps became accessible on Thursday, to the delight of visitors who came to marvel at the huge blue vault of the "ice cathedral".
We love to see it! Our current president, Simonetta Sommaruga has made the Forbes 100 most influential women on the globe ranking.
Simonetta Sommaruga took 56th place in the magazine’s annual ranking of the 100 most influential women on the globe, published this week.
On 10 December 1948, the #UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
On #HumanRightsDay2020, #switzerland joins the United Nations Human Rights's call to action to #BuildBackBetter and place #humanrights at the centre of the post #covid19 world. Let's do this together! 🇨🇭🇺🇸 🌎
✔️End discrimination
✔️Address inequalities
✔️Encourage participation
✔️Support human rights defenders
✔️Promote #SDGs
👉https://bit.ly/39Rt1cG
📸 UN Photo/ Jean Marc Ferré
#StandUp4HumanRights #RecoverBetter #Multilateralism100 #UN75
Our December Swiss #film, “Late Bloomers,” tells the story of a widow who rediscovers her zest for life by achieving a long-held dream… and causes an uproar in her small town.
Register now to watch until Dec 14! 👉 https://bit.ly/33VesRy
On #GenocidePreventionDay, #switzerland honors the victims through its dedicated commitment to prevention. Better protection of #humanrights, better fact-finding and documentation, better transitions through truth, justice, reparation & guarantees of non-recurrence.
👉https://bit.ly/2JPjb0r
Did you know #switzerland had a strong tradition for #design?
The 2020 edition of Design Days recently unveiled some of Switzerland's most promising designers, and Switzerland has often showed #innovation in the field.
Could you have guessed that these 8 items were created in Switzerland?
1. Toblerone, invented by Théodore Tobler and his sons in 1908 ("Toblerone" is actually a contraction between "Tobler" and "torrone", an Italian nougat confection)
2. USM Haller modular furniture, conceived by Swiss architect Fritz Haller
3. Freitag bags, created by Markus and Daniel Freitag
4. Rex vegetable peeler, created by Alfred Neweczerzal in 1947
5. The legendary Victorinox Swiss Army Knife
6. Helvetica, the font designed in 1957 by Zürich graphic designer Max Miedinger
7. Mondaine, the official clock in Swiss train stations
8. Landi chair, created by Hans Coray
#swissdesign #motivationmonday #architecture #graphicdesign
Original article from RTSinfo.
A student ETH Zürich put his doctoral project aside to help relieve the strain on hospitals. He developed a system that makes it easier for nursing staff to rotate #COVID19 patients in intensive care.
During the lockdown last spring, Julian Ferchow put his doctoral project aside to help relieve the strain on hospitals. Together with his team, the 31-year-old researcher discovered a simpler way of turning patients suffering from COVID-19 in intensive care. A company is now producing the Proning Ta...
Quarantine requirements for Switzerland: The list of countries and regions has been updated. This new list goes into effect on Dec. 14, 2020, at midnight.
Learn more: https://bit.ly/2JJYjr4 #COVID19
American singer and dancer Othella Dallas opened the Othella Strozier School of Dance in Zurich where she trained opera singers, cabaret performers and dancers. In 1975 she opened a dance school in Basel and was still teaching three times a week at the age of 90. RIP to this icon.
The Grand Old Lady of Jazz, as the singer and dancer Othella Dallas called herself, has died in Basel at the age of 95.
Today, the number of space debris is growing at an exponential rate. Swiss research is developing solutions to remove satellites from orbit.
ESA - European Space Agency and Swiss start-up ClearSpace signed a ~$103 million contract for space debris removal! Clearspace will launch the first active debris removal mission in 2025.
https://bit.ly/36pMvTC
The Association for Termination of Female Genital Mutilation supported by Switzerland saves children from harmful traditional practices #FGM & shelters them in the center of Masanga in Tanzania. More than 200 million girls & women alive today have undergone FGM. #orangetheworld #StopViolenceAgainstWomen
Contraception as a #HumanRight is a challenge to many social conventions. Switzerland supports IPPF which is committed to ensuring that people can make free decisions about their sexuality and well-being in a world without discrimination. https://bit.ly/38OtxaT. #16DaysOfActivism #OrangeTheWorld
Preventing & combating sexual abuse and gender-based violence is a foreign policy priority for #Switzerland. 🇨🇭supports the fight for respect and equal rights for women at the multilateral level and in its partner countries. In honor of the start of the 16 days of activism, the parliament building in Bern was lit up orange.
LEARN MORE: https://bit.ly/3fJqnXu
#16Days #OrangeTheWorld #GenerationEquality
Happy Thanksgiving to our American friends. The Embassy of Switzerland is closed today and on Friday, November 27, 2020, due to the holiday. 🇺🇸🦃
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SWISS FILM CLUB: We are sitting down with the film director, Bindu de Stopanni to discuss our September Film Club pick, "Finding Camille."
We found a little piece of Switzerland in New Glarus, Wisconsin! 🇨🇭 🇺🇸 😍 Don’t know much about this town dubbed “America’s little Switzerland,” be sure to visit: https://www.swisstown.com New Glarus Chamber of Commerce
We hope you all enjoyed celebrating Swiss National Day with the digital content specially created for you, in the US, and around the world! You can still find all the content on our medium page: https://bit.ly/33i4MkW
Our Ambassador, Jacques Pitteloud has one more message for you on #SwissNationalDay, this time on a more serious note. P.S., don't forget to check out https://bit.ly/33i4MkW to see how you can celebrate with us digitally. Happy Swiss National Day!
Dear Swiss abroad, dear friends of Switzerland, our Ambassador, Jacques Pitteloud wishes you a Happy Swiss National Day. #SwissNationalDay Be sure to visit: https://bit.ly/2D8IbMP to celebrate this special day with us.
For #SwissNationalDay the Swiss Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ignazio Cassis has a message to the Swiss Community and all lovers of Switzerland. Join us online and celebrate our National Day by visiting: ➡️ https://www.missione1agosto.org/ ➡️ https://bit.ly/30MrtdY
Join us for a discussion about the film Suddenly Homesick with the director Director Yu Hao.
SWISS FILM CLUB: We are excited to be talking to director of the Swiss film "Madame," Stéphane Riethauser Madame - Film. COMMENT BELOW with your questions!
We are talking about the Swiss comedy "Roll the Drum" with the film director, Christophe Marzal, the lead actor Pierre Mifsud and our ambassador, Jacques Pitteloud.
Looking for Mother’s Day brunch ideas? Why not make Müesli 🥣! The #Swiss breakfast classic, was invented by the Swiss doctor Maximilian Oskar Bircher-Benner over 100 years ago. Watch our video to learn how to prepare Müesli and read more about its history here: https://bit.ly/2YIzaT7
Join us along with Solid State Books next Monday, May 11, 2020 at 4pm EST for a conversation with #Swiss author, Peter Stamm about his book, The Sweet Indifference of the World. Follow @solidstatedc for the LIVE EVENT on @instagram next Monday!
Happy Earth Day! 🌎 Together, we can make this a better world for everyone. Swiss environmental visionary, Bertrand Piccard has a message to society about the one community we all share.
In these unique times, the Embassy of Switzerland wishes a #HappyEaster to all those who celebrate. We wish you health, happiness, and peace of mind. And in case you are looking for something fun to do at home this weekend... #StayAtHome
This #InternationalWomensDay... #DiplomacyUnited stands together... once again... in advancing... a gender-equal... and inclusive world... where each of us... young and old... commits to... making a difference. ... Let's all... be #EachForEqual #GenerationEquality Happy #IWD2020! Act today, every day, everywhere. Celebrate and learn how to say International Women's Day in several different languages. #DiplomacyUnited
For International Women's Day, let’s celebrate women's achievements! During this week, we are showcasing women in Switzerland successfully working in male-dominated industries. #EachforEqual #WomensDay #IWD2020
For International Women's Day, let’s celebrate women's achievements! We are showcasing women in Switzerland successfully working in male-dominated industries. #EachforEqual #WomensDay #IWD2020
We loved seeing Switzerland through digital art by mySquare - François Moncarey at our #SwissTouch event at ARTECHOUSE! Can you guess which Swiss City this is?
Time to dance! 🩰 The Prix de Lausanne takes place from February 2nd to 9th, 2020 in Montreux. This yearly international competition is for young dancers of all nationalities aged 15 to 18 who are not yet professionals, and its mission is to reveal the potential of exceptionally talented young dancers from around the globe.
We’re excited to be at the 55th Annual Solothurn Film Festival in Switzerland! As the most important festival for Swiss film productions, tens of thousands of industry professionals & film lovers alike have been spending time in the town of Solothurn for this week-long festival. #sofi55
Back at it today at #CES and we can’t wait to see other #SwissTech innovation like @EyewareTech! GazeSense is a 3D eye tracking software that allows devices to capture user attention, interest and intention without having to wear glasses. 👀😱 Learn more: https://eyeware.tech
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