Contaminated soil due to PFAS chemical affects five St.Gallen farms

Contaminated soil due to PFAS chemical affects five St.Gallen farms

“There are already many challenges for farmers, we don’t need that now,” says Bruno Inauen, head of the St. Gallen Agricultural Office. The canton of St. Gallen announced the bad news on Wednesday morning: increased levels of PFAS chemicals have been detected on St. Gallen soil, which has already had an impact on foods such … Read more

Profiteering with corona masks? | Switzerland

Profiteering with corona masks? | Switzerland

They made big money thanks to the pandemic: Luca Steffen and Jascha Rudolphi, two young entrepreneurs from the Zug-based trading company Emix and former board members of the Young SVP Zurich. They sold corona masks for just under ten francs each and always claimed that they were not looking for a quick profit. But now … Read more

A well-known intercourse therapist got here from Heiden

A well-known intercourse therapist got here from Heiden

In 1988 the Wartheim constructing was bought and used as a non-public residence. Emigrated to Palestine In Herisau, Karola Siegel went to a housewife college. When she was 16 years outdated, she left Heiden in 1944 and emigrated to Palestine, the place she joined the underground Zionist group Hagana. Later she studied in Paris, which … Read more

Poor Rapperswil – 100 million individuals is just not sufficient

Poor Rapperswil – 100 million individuals is just not sufficient

Plainly 100 million individuals stay in Rapperswil-Jona – and shortly there will likely be one other one. Roger Federer, one of the well-known Swiss, is shifting to Kempraten Bay. Based on “Steadiness Sheet”, the previous tennis star is value 850 million. His buddy, tennis buddy and future neighbor, Jorge Paulo Lemann, can solely chortle at … Read more

The Shocking Truth Behind the Outrageous Costs of Day Care Construction in City X: A 170% Price Increase Revealed

The Shocking Truth Behind the Outrageous Costs of Day Care Construction in City X: A 170% Price Increase Revealed

“The money that is being put into day care, which at 15.2 million francs is already too expensive for us taxpayers, is not justifiable, even if the savings of 1.5 million ordered by Parliament were achieved – presumably to circumvent a referendum . With the original loan requirement of 8.9 million, the city parliament clearly … Read more

Inclusive Concert for People with Hearing Impairments: Breaking New Ground Together

Inclusive Concert for People with Hearing Impairments: Breaking New Ground Together

Sound and music are almost undisputedly understood as auditory perception – in concerts, at best as audiovisual. But that doesn’t apply to everyone. According to a survey by SZBLIND, around 57,000 people in Switzerland are affected by a hearing impairment. That’s about as many as the city of Biel has inhabitants. The specific needs of … Read more

Thurgau Parliament approves budget for 2024

Thurgau Parliament approves budget for 2024

In addition to the extraordinarily high investments, a lack of income from distributions from the Swiss National Bank and declining payments from the intercantonal financial equalization also contribute to the negative result. The Greens submitted a proposal to correct the cantonal tax reduction decided two years ago, or to increase the tax rate again by … Read more

Lehrstellenforum.org: Connecting Companies and Students for Future Careers

Lehrstellenforum.org: Connecting Companies and Students for Future Careers

Due to the current situation of a shortage of apprentices, an oversupply of apprenticeships, companies not having enough presence, and much more. The St.Gallen association “lehrstellenforum.org” wants to bring together different training companies from various sectors with students, parents and teachers and establish itself as an indispensable hub for companies and professional organizations for securing … Read more

1. “Management of the Circular Economy: Positioning and Designing Circular Companies” 2. “Blockchain in the Financial World: Crypto Assets, DeFi, Tokenization, NFT and Metaverse” 3. “Women’s Careers: Targeted Design from a Company and Personal Perspective”

1. “Management of the Circular Economy: Positioning and Designing Circular Companies”
2. “Blockchain in the Financial World: Crypto Assets, DeFi, Tokenization, NFT and Metaverse”
3. “Women’s Careers: Targeted Design from a Company and Personal Perspective”

Management of the circular economy «The core problem of the linear economy is that the monodirectional use of finite resources deteriorates global livelihoods and has irreversible effects on the environment, people and animals. Against this background, the circular economy represents an alternative economic model that minimizes the use of materials and energy by creating closed … Read more

Calls for an Additional University of Applied Sciences in Agricultural Sciences in Eastern Switzerland

Calls for an Additional University of Applied Sciences in Agricultural Sciences in Eastern Switzerland

Is there a need for an additional university of applied sciences offer in agricultural sciences in eastern Switzerland? This is what three members of the cantonal council in the middle, Barbara Dürr, Heidi Romer-Jud and Stefan Koller, want to know in an advance. They refer to the existing offer in Switzerland: At the university level, … Read more