Credit card companies could be obliged to cooperate with the Swiss authorities in the fight against online child pornography. Switzerland's Federal Data Protection Commissioner came out in favour of a system based on the German model.

Annual competition in robotic at the University of Fribourg. The next competition will take place on 5 may 2007. The participants develop and program a robot in one day and finally determine the best robot during matches.

According to a survey by the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation the Swiss want to increase integration efforts and repressive measures to crack down on a perceived rise in youth violence. Integration of foreigners has become the most important issue.

Message by the President of the Confederation Micheline Calmy-Rey on the occasion of the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust on 27 January 2007.

Switzerland has been a full member of the European Space Agency ESA since 1975. A good number of ESA programs have developed educational activities for all teaching and learning levels within member states.

Over the past year, Swiss publishing firms brought out almost 12,000 new books on the market. This is attested by the annual statistics for Swiss book production drawn up by the Swiss National Library.

Switzerland's higher education system has come under fire for failing the needs of students and the labour market.The study by Swiss bank Credit Suisse recommends a series of reforms to generate competition between the country's universities.

How are ICT world wide introduced into the classroom?  What's the ideal school of the 21st century like? These themes are in the centre of the second free Innovative Teachers Meeting on 9th March in Berne. Languages of event: English and German.

A pilot project to introduce school uniforms at a Basel secondary school will be stopped after a six-month trial period. The students were not against wearing a uniform as such - they just found that it was not classic enough.

According to a study for the Federal Health Office young people are smoking and drinking less as well as consuming a smaller amount of cannabis than four years ago. Around 9800 11- to 15-year-olds were asked about their habits.

The SER and Presence Switzerland are launching the "Think Swiss - Brainstorm the Future" programme in the USA. The aim is to strengthen the network between the USA and Switzerland in education, research and innovation.

The European Dana Alliance for the Brain is celebrating it's 10th anniversary. Brain Awareness Week is an annual celebration dedicated to raising public awareness of brain research. This year it's taking place internationally from 12 - 18 March.

The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), together with the SECO, has launched the competition "We care, you too?". The contest is aimed at youth resident in Switzerland who are committed to building a just world.

The Federal Council today approved a mandate for a bilateral agreement for the participation of Switzerland in the EU's new education, training and youth programmes for the period 2007-2013 - such as the Erasmus student exchange programme.

Young Enterprise Switzerland promotes entrepreneurship among the young generation in Switzerland. "Our Community" is a series of five activities for students in their 3rd grade of primary school being taught by volunteers from private economy.

The new edition of Spring Day for Europe will be held from 26 March - celebrating the 50th anniversary of the signature of the Rome Treaties - to 30 June 2007. In the context of the European Schoolnet Swiss schools are also invited to participate.

ThinkSwiss - Brainstorm the future, the Swiss-US programme for the promotion of Swiss academia, went online with its website. ThinkSwiss' aim is to build a long lasting network between US and Swiss education, research and innovation.

The project on Education for Sustainable Development for the lower secondary level is an excellent example for the use of educanet2 as a platform for publication and the collaboration between various institutions, schools and cantons.

The brochure "Swiss Confederation a brief guide 2007" has just been published in the four national languages plus English. Due to the increase in demand of the free publication by the Federal Chancellery it's now been printed in 230'000 copies.

From 28 March to 5 May 2007 the University of Art and Design Lausanne (ECAL) will exhibit the portraits of 65 ambassadors and diplomats posted to Switzerland at the Swiss National Library in Bern - "Excellences, Exzellenzen".