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Academia Raetica strengthens collaboration with the Canton of the Grisons
In March 2009, the Academia Raetica signed a performance agreement with the "Amt für Höhere Bildung" with the purpose to support the Canton of the Grisons in the development of the legal basis for university-based research and education and to strengthen the research activities within the Canton altogether.
It is the purpose of the Academia Raetica to function as a platform organisation for academic research and education in the Canton of the Grisons. The Academia includes the institutions and clinics active in this task. It fosters the collaboration of its members with Universities and Industry in the Canton and the neighbouring regions. It supports the young academics, organizes conferences for science and the general public and it will, among others, assume patronage for medical continuing education and congresses.
The Canton of the Grisons attaches great importance to academic research
and education and is dedicated to foster and amplify the already existing
research activities by a range of measures. A new cantonal law for the
advancement of university-based research should establish the legal basis
and ensure that new initiatives in this area can be promoted. The attractiveness
of the Canton as home for research and the transfer of knowledge between
science and industry should be strengthened in order to generate new jobs
in existing or newly founded institutions and companies.
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The Board of Directors of the Academia Raetica has elected Prof. Erich Schneider as CEO at its meeting of March 3, 2009. His duties include the establishment of the offices of the organisation, the gathering of the needs of science, industry and government, and the support of the Board in the establishment of an appropriate scientific network and advice to the Canton. Prof. Dr. Erich Schneider has been active in research and education
at the Universities of Basel, Bern, Chicago (USA), Rochester (USA)
and Hamburg (Germany). He is intimately familiar with university
structures and processes nationally and internationally. He has
been the supervisor for more than 60 graduate and post-graduate
students and he has generated more than 140 peer-reviewed publications.
During the last 10 years, he was Director of the AO Research Institute
and member of the Executive Management of the AO Foundation, a global
Davos-based NGO. He is reviewer in a range of scientific journals
and professional societies as well as a member of the Steering Committee
of the National Research Program 53 of the Swiss National Research
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