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Swiss Foundation for Technology Assessment (TA-SWISS)
TA-SWISS makes great efforts to address fields of technology and their application which are considered by public opinion to be controversial. In particular, TA-SWISS looks into the three subject areas "Life Sciences & Health", "Nanotechnology" and "Information Society". Questions on the impact of a technology on the environment, business, politics, human health etc. are taken up just as are those questions on the ethical implications of technical change.
The TA-SWISS publications and events are directed not only towards decision-makers in politics, science, business and administration but also towards the general public as a whole. Then, basically, unbiased and well-balanced information presented in this way should contribute at an early stage to putting the people and institutions who play a decisive role into the picture on the possible effects to be expected of a new technical development - and on which consequences are to be expected when this technology is not used.
In 1991, the Federal Council and Parliament decided that the Swiss Science Council should create a Swiss model for the assessment of the consequences of technology (TA, Technology Assessment). In 1996, the TA-Programme was able to start work on its second four-year work-period. In government plans for the promotion of education, research and technology for the years 2000 - 2003, the mandate of TA-SWISS and its institutional integration are described as follows:
"The continuation of technology assessment should - with an improved organisation - be assured for the next promotion period. We suggest (...) that TA be institutionalized and become an independent unit answering to the Swiss Science and Technology Council. The TA-Programme will have the job of fulfilling the following tasks: Provide not only the general public and parliament but also the researchers themselves with decision aids for the assessment of the effects of scientific research and technological development (TA studies); Accompany research promoted by the Confederation from the TA point of view; Ensure objectivity in the socio-political discussion on the positive and negative effects of scientific research and technological developments - and also on their omission - even in the pre-political stage;Take over the role of a contact point and clearing-house for related and similar institutions at home or abroad." (Source: Statement on the Promotion of Education, Research and Technology, 2004–2007).
Since the 1st January 2008, TA-SWISS is affilated as a Center of Competence of The Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences. Since October 2016 it is a non-profit foundation.
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TA-SWISS
Center for Technology Assessment
Brunngasse 36
CH-3011 Berne
Tel: +41-31-310 99 60
Fax: +41-31-310 99 61
E-Mail:
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Director: Dr. Elisabeth Ehrensperger
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Swiss Foundation for Technology Assessment (TA-SWISS)
TA-SWISS makes great efforts to address fields of technology and their application which are considered by public opinion to be controversial. In particular, TA-SWISS looks into the three subject areas "Life Sciences & Health", "Nanotechnology" and "Information Society". Questions on the impact of a technology on the environment, business, politics, human health etc. are taken up just as are those questions on the ethical implications of technical change.
The TA-SWISS publications and events are directed not only towards decision-makers in politics, science, business and administration but also towards the general public as a whole. Then, basically, unbiased and well-balanced information presented in this way should contribute at an early stage to putting the people and institutions who play a decisive role into the picture on the possible effects to be expected of a new technical development - and on which consequences are to be expected when this technology is not used.
In 1991, the Federal Council and Parliament decided that the Swiss Science Council should create a Swiss model for the assessment of the consequences of technology (TA, Technology Assessment). In 1996, the TA-Programme was able to start work on its second four-year work-period. In government plans for the promotion of education, research and technology for the years 2000 - 2003, the mandate of TA-SWISS and its institutional integration are described as follows:
"The continuation of technology assessment should - with an improved organisation - be assured for the next promotion period. We suggest (...) that TA be institutionalized and become an independent unit answering to the Swiss Science and Technology Council. The TA-Programme will have the job of fulfilling the following tasks: Provide not only the general public and parliament but also the researchers themselves with decision aids for the assessment of the effects of scientific research and technological development (TA studies); Accompany research promoted by the Confederation from the TA point of view; Ensure objectivity in the socio-political discussion on the positive and negative effects of scientific research and technological developments - and also on their omission - even in the pre-political stage;Take over the role of a contact point and clearing-house for related and similar institutions at home or abroad." (Source: Statement on the Promotion of Education, Research and Technology, 2004–2007).
Since the 1st January 2008, TA-SWISS is affilated as a Center of Competence of The Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences. Since October 2016 it is a non-profit foundation.
Address
TA-SWISS
Center for Technology Assessment
Brunngasse 36
CH-3011 Berne
Tel: +41-31-310 99 60
Fax: +41-31-310 99 61
E-Mail:
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Contact
Director: Dr. Elisabeth Ehrensperger
E-Mail:
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Links
Projects
Policy briefs
Project reports
Homepage
Prev
Next
EPTA Reports
2025: Energy Mix
2024: AI and Democracy
View all EPTA reports
New Projects from EPTA members
View all projects
Three Science and Technology Trends That Could Affect Society 2026
Catalonia’s Energy Mix
AI for Science
Neurotechnology
Human resources for science and technology society
C'est LA Via
Engineered Biofertilizers
Recent Policy Briefs from EPTA members
TWIN (RATH)
What if AI data centres were put in space? (STOA)
“Matilda is Lazy Today”: How Mind Perceptions Trigger Relational Job Crafting With Industrial Robots (OAT)
Public engagement with the energy transition (POST)
Facial recognition technology in policing (POST)
Contracts for Difference and the economics of renewable energy deployment (POST)
Mental health during and after pregnancy (POST)
View all policy briefs
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