Happiness2.0 in the Educational programme of the Biennale Arte 2026
Discover the Happiness2.0 workshop at the 2026 Art Biennale, an experience that brings together art and scienc...
Physics and music inspire painting: How art explains science
Discover how wave physics inspires music and art in the Let’s Science! workshops, organized by the IBSA Founda...
Tintoria Podcast Sells Out in Lugano
IBSA Foundation hosted a sold-out live episode of the Tintoria Podcast in Lugano, blending science with entert...
The "Food and Art" workshop returns to school
The IBSA Foundation’s “Food and Art” workshop returns to schools in Ticino: the food pyramid, drawing, and loc...
Why are the Swiss having fewer children? IBSA Foundation presents a new study
Find out why the Swiss are having fewer children: analysis of a new IBSA Foundation study on parenting, fertil...
La Luce Attesa: a short film on the desire to become a parent
The short film "The Expected Light" explores the desire for parenthood through stories and archival materials,...
2025 Fellowship Winners
The IBSA Foundation's 2025 Fellowships awarded seven researchers for their innovative projects, highlighting g...
Social Prescribing: the conversation continues in New York
IBSA Foundation, following the event in Boston, organized a dialogue in New York on social prescribing, explor...
IBSA Foundation in Boston with Happiness 2.0
IBSA Foundation explores the link between digital identity and adolescent well-being in Boston, promoting a di...
IBSA Foundation in Barcelona with HappyLab
For the first time in Spain, IBSA Foundation's HappyLabs engaged Spanish high school students in a journey on ...
Fumetto Comic Festival Lucerne: A journey through science and dreams
IBSA Foundation for scientific research took part in the 34th edition of the Fumetto Comic festival in Lucern...
Fluid Boundaries: dialogue and perspectives after the project
At Carlo Cattaneo House, the closing event of Fluid Boundaries combined art, science and indigenous knowledge ...
The first Museum Tour in Spain
The museum tour is going international: for the first time school classes from Spain are taking part in a muse...
Quantum intelligence: IBSA Foundation and LAC explore the relationship between human and artificial
Quantum intelligence: IBSA Foundation–LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura explore artificial intelligence, quantum physi...
IBSA Foundation HappyLabs at the Venice Biennale Kids’ Carnival
IBSA Foundation brought its HappyLab workshops to Venice, involving young people in an activity dedicated to d...
InnovaComiX 2026: Cygne d’Argent finalists Bressanini and Tota in conversation
Dario Bressanini and Alessandro Tota discuss science, comics, and popular science. Moderated by Pietro Scarner...
IBSA Foundation at InnovaComiX 2026, with public HappyLabs
IBSA Foundation for Scientific Research brings two experiential workshops on digital wellbeing to the InnovaCo...
IBSA Foundation partners with InnovaComiX 2026
InnovaComiX 2026 Festival in Lugano: comics, science and young people in the spotlight with the new Cygne d'Ar...
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IBSA Foundation and USI Scholarships 2025
Also in 2025, IBSA Foundation continues to promote the scholarship project in collaboration with USI, to promo...
Museum Tour
An innovative Scientific Museum Tour project, granting secondary school classes the opportunity to take part i...
Science and art: sparking creativity through discovery
The third edition of Let’s Science! at the Cartoonmuseum explored blood, where Basel students combined science...
Nomadic - Song for Biodiversity
An immersive performance by Telmo Pievani and Gianni Maroccolo chosen by IBSA Foundation to tell the story of ...
SciArt SwitzerlAnd x Fluid Boundaries
Fluid Boundaries brings together artists and scientists to explore our connection with water through dialogue,...
2024 Fellowship Winners
The six winners of IBSA Foundation’s 12th Fellowship edition have been announced. The new call is open, featur...
Conversation with Chus Martínez
Curator Chus Martínez to be guest of honour at the first SciArt SwitzerlAnd 2025 event dedicated to the relati...
Arturo Licenziati appointed new Honorary Member of USI
Arturo Licenziati awarded the title of honorary member of USI on 10 May 2025 on the occasion of the 29th Dies ...
Happiness2.0: Social media use, AI and well-being in adolescence (2025-2026)
Happiness2.0 aims to offer scientific communication activities to teenagers in Ticino aged between 14 and 18, ...
Museum Tour: Dance as a form of communication
Discover how the IBSA Foundation's Museum Tour project helps students explore dance as a form of communication...
Drawing music: A creative lab blending physics, arts and comics
Two high school classes from Basel and Lucerne participated in the Labs organised by IBSA Foundation and the C...
Stefano Mancuso - Plant beings in the perspective of global sustainability
The meeting with Stefano Mancuso is part of SciArt SwitzerlAnd, a project of IBSA Foundation carried out in co...
Valter Longo: Fasting Mimicking Diets Longevity and Disease
During Valter Longo session explore Fasting Mimicking Diets (FMDs): short-term, low-calorie diets that promote...
Guido Tonelli - Art and Science: a history of surprising connections
Lectio magistralis by Guido Tonelli. The meeting is part of SciArt SwitzerlAnd, a project of IBSA Foundation c...
The book: “Fertile Words. A Journey in Search of a Child”
The book: “Fertile Words. A Journey in Search of a Child”. The volume includes 50 stories donated to the commu...
Senotherapeutics Revolution Forum Lugano
This IBSA Foundation Forum provides a dynamic platform for the presentation and discussion of pioneering resea...
Call for abstracts for oral and poster presentations
Authors are invited to submit abstracts for presentation at the IBSA Foundation FORUM “Senotherapeutics Revolu...
The revival of Carlo Cattaneo House
Discover the revival of Carlo Cattaneo House in Lugano: a respectful regeneration project celebrating history ...
Who was Carlo Cattaneo
Discover the life and legacy of Carlo Cattaneo, a key figure of the 19th century in the political and cultural...
From the 17th century to today: the story and the many faces of Carlo Cattaneo House
Discover the story of Casa Carlo Cattaneo: from country residence to IBSA Foundation headquarters. A journey t...
Echoes from the Future - Science, Ethics and the Arts
For the 24/25 season, the collaboration between LAC and IBSA Foundation is developed around the thematic path ...
HappyApero: being yourself in the digital age
HappyApero 2024: reflections on authenticity and digital well-being for teens and parents in Lugano. Take a lo...
USI and IBSA Foundation Scholarships 2024
Also in 2024, IBSA Foundation continues to promote its scholarship project in cooperation with USI, supporting...
Museum Tour: discovering biology at the KULTURAMA
As part of IBSA Foundation's Museum Tour project, a class of seventh graders from Canton Bern was able to trav...
Semir Zeki explores the link between neuroscience and emotions
Delve into the link between neuroscience and emotions with Semir Zeki at LAC Lugano on October 15. Learn about...
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If you can dream it, you can do it: the first Let's Science! lab in Basel
The Let's Science! Labs are now also present in German-speaking Switzerland. The first event of this kind took...
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Lugano Happiness Forum 2024: a journey to discover happiness
The first forum in Switzerland dedicated to the exploration of happiness and human well-being was held in Luga...
2023 Fellowship Winners
The eleventh edition of the IBSA Foundation Fellowships has ended with the awarding of six fellowships. Here a...
Identity and digital awareness at HappyLab
HappyLab, a space for discussion and reflection on youth well-being and identity, part of the Happiness2.0 pro...
A ‘HappyApero’ to talk about digital well-being
A fun activity but most importantly, a valuable opportunity to raise awareness of responsible social media use...
Lugano Happiness Forum 2024
The first Swiss forum dedicated to happiness. The event is free of charge and will be held on 17-18 June 2024 ...
"Dialogue with Food" educational Workshops to promote healthy eating
Laboratori didattici Let's Science! sul dialogo con il cibo per sviluppare competenze alimentari nei giovaniss...
Conversation with artist Ed Atkins
Free event with artist Ed Atkins on the boundaries between real experiences and digital worlds was held Nov. 2...
Conversation with artist Jakob Kudsk Steensen
Jakob Kudsk Steensen (Denmark, 1987) headlines the first SciArt Switzerland event with a focus on the relation...
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Conversation with the artist Uriel Orlow
On November 10, 2023 the second SciArt SwitzlerlAnd meeting takes place at the Lac Lugano. With Uriel Orlow, w...
Umberto Galimberti, The Emotions: still a largely unknown territory
On January 27, 2024, as part of IBSA Foundation's SciArt Switzerland project, a meeting with Umberto Galimbert...
Happiness2.0 – Social media use and well-being in adolescence (2024)
Happiness2.0 aims to offer science-based communication activities to 14-to-18-year-old adolescents living in T...
New Frontiers in cancer and healthy aging
The upcoming scientific Forum titled "New Frontiers in Cancer and Healthy Aging," organized by IBSA Foundation...
Graduation of the Class of 2017 from the Faculty of Biomedical Sciences at USI
The celebration of the Faculty of Biomedical Sciences' Master of Medicine was held at USI - Università della S...
USI and IBSA Foundation Scholarships 2023
Also in 2023, IBSA Foundation continues to promote the scholarship project in collaboration with USI (Universi...
Emanuele Trevi - La casa del mago (The House of the Magician)
On 21 October 2023 at 11:00 a.m., at LAC, the public will have a chance to meet the author and essayist Emanue...
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IBSA Foundation celebrates the grand opening of its new headquarters: Casa Carlo Cattaneo in Lugano
The grand opening of IBSA Foundation's new headquarters, Casa Carlo Cattaneo, in the presence of the mayor of ...
Digital Aesthetics: The Wall of Sound di panGenerator
The work The Wall of Sound by panGenerator is part of the Digital Aesthetics project with the aim of making pe...
Art and Medicine in Dialogue in Boston
The "Arts as Medicine: Where Do We Go From Here?" event, organized by Swissnex, with support from Ibsa Foundat...
New Frontiers in biological and environmental determinants of aging
New Frontiers in biological and environmental determinants of aging Forum in Bellinzona.
Culture and Longevity
The Forum entitled “Culture and Longevity” in Zurich will bring together international experts from various di...
Conversation with the artist Olaf Nicolai
On June 5 2023 at Lac in Lugano, SciArt SwitzlerlAnd opens through a conversation on art and science with Olaf...
2022 Fellowship Winners
The tenth edition of the IBSA Foundation Fellowships has ended with the awarding of six fellowships. Here are ...
Personalized therapy in oncology
The Personalized therapy in oncology Special Forum was held June 16 in Lugano as part of the International Con...
A new beginning for IBSA Foundation
The IBSA Foundation with ten years of activity at the back continues its projects and initiatives in the name ...
USI and IBSA Foundation Scholarships 2022
Also in 2022, IBSA Foundation continues to promote the scholarship project in collaboration with USI (Universi...
Digital Aesthetics: “La Gabbia” by auroraMeccanica
The work La Gabbia auroraMeccanica is part of the Digital Aesthetics project with the aim of making people thi...
La Scienza a regola d'Arte - Julius von Bismarck and Tamara Vázquez Schröder
The artist Julius von Bismarck and the physicist Tamara Vázquez Schröder, are the protagonists of the tenth t...
Let’s Science! Lugano 2022 - 5° edition
Let's Science! has reached its fifth edition in 2022: an appointment for young and adults from 12 to 17 Septem...
"La Scienza a regola d'Arte" - Stefano Cagol and Massimo Bernardi
The artist Stefano Cagol and the anthropocene expert Massimo Bernardi, are the protagonists of the ninth talk...
2021 Fellowship Winners
The ninth IBSA Foundation Fellowships edition concluded with the awarding of six fellowships.
New frontiers in regenerative medicine
New frontiers in regenerative medicine - IBSA Foundation Forum April 2022
Forum culturaesalute.ch 2021 "An alliance for a sustainable future"
The two days of the Alliance for a Sustainable Future Forum focused on the humanization of healthcare and its ...
Digital Aesthetics: Robotic voice activated word kicking machine with Neil Mendoza
Neil Mendoza and the work Robotic voice activated word kicking machine: a surreal exploration of language and ...
Scholarships of USI and IBSA Foundation 2021
On October 25, 2021, 119 scholarships were awarded by IBSA Foundation to USI students enrolled in the Bachelor...
"La Scienza a regola d'Arte" - Stefano Arienti and Paolo Mazzarello
The artist Stefano Arienti and the medical historian Paolo Mazzarello are the protagonists of the eighth conve...
Digital Arts: Ars Electronica Garden, Milan
The Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia has been chosen to host the Ars Electronica Garden in Milan, offering...
Digital Aesthetics: Chromata - with Michael Bromley
Michael Bromley and his work Chromata: generative software that transforms images for museum visitors in a hig...
Let’s Science! the book series - new volumes
Let’s Science! is a book series devised by Middle School students, researchers, scientists and cartoonists. Th...
The first Mission Partner of Milan’s National Science and Technology Museum
Two interactive digital installations to support the museum’s arts and education programme in autumn 2021.
A Curious Guide for Courageous Kids, Goals 2030
An interactive book to reflect, act and experiment for kids and families. 17 goals to transform our way of lif...
Let’s Science! Lugano 2021
This year, Let’s Science! has reached the fourth edition. The date for young and old is at Villa Saroli, Lugan...
"La Scienza a regola d'Arte" - Marc Bauer and Luca Maria Gambardella
The artist Marc Bauer and scientist Luca Maria Gambardella are the key players of this seventh meeting in the ...
Vaccines and monoclonals to regain our freedom with Professor Rino Rappuoli
IBSA Foundation Special Forum 2021: vaccines and monoclonals are the best weapon available to save lives, safe...
2020 Fellowships Winners
The winners of IBSA Foundation Fellowships Call 2020
The Other End of a Black Hole with James Beacham
Join Dr. James Beacham, particle physicist at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, as he explores what happens w...
Cultura e Salute. Connected to shorten distances
A discussion on culture during Covid-19 to compare and analyze lessons learned from the emergency. A focus on ...
USI and IBSA Foundation Scholarships, since 2020 also to Master in Medicine students
It continues our commitment to the promotion of medical studies at the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI...
IBSA Foundation and MUSE per #iorestoacasa
The program MUSE per #iorestoacasa offers a wide range of projects for being together "from a distance", with ...
2019 Fellowships Winners
The seventh edition of the IBSA Foundation Fellowships has concluded with the awarding of five fellowships wor...
#storieaportechiuse: the Museum is going digital
The project that IBSA Foundation is supporting alongside the Museum is #storieaportechiuse, a daily event on s...
James Beacham at the Open Night in Milan
IBSA Foundation will be participating in the Open Night - Happy Birthday Museum. The event, organized by the M...
"La Scienza a regola d'Arte" - Julian Charrière and Felix Keller
The artist Julian Charrière and the glaciologist Felix Keller led the sixth conversation of the series "La Sci...
"An astronaut among us" with Paolo Nespoli
Paolo Nespoli was the star guest of the special event An astronaut among us, which took place on November 16 a...
Let’s Science! Lugano 2019
The third edition of Let's Science! Lugano, the creative journey through science promoted by the IBSA Foundati...
Scholarships of USI and IBSA Foundation 2019
On October 28, 2019, 30 scholarships were awarded by IBSA Foundation to USI students enrolled in the first, se...
Let’s Science! Festival della Crescita 2019 – Milan
The appointment with Let's Science! closed in Milan and the Pillola di Teatro initiative inspired by the CSR p...
Artificial Intelligence & Pharmaceutical landscape
Artificial Intelligence is gaining more and more importance in the pharmaceutical sector, deeply transforming ...
Convivium "Futuro + umano"
We need to start from life itself and from the most human aspects of life to search for clues for a better wor...
Artificial Intelligence enhances and strengthens our human existence
On the 2019 Digital Day, Francesco Morace discussed the relationship between ethics and digital, and new persp...
Informati e vaccinati at the science museum in Trento
Within the context of its partnership with MUSE in Trento, IBSA Foundation is promoting the presentation of th...
Ethics & Digital
During the "Ethics & Digital" workshop, Francesco Morace, sociologist and President of Future Concept Lab, tal...
Revolutionary therapies for cancer
What is the most advanced research in the oncology sector? What truly new frontiers are being opened in the fi...
"La Scienza a regola d’Arte" - Andrea Galvani and James Beacham
One of the most internationally-renowned Italian artists Andrea Galvani and the American physicist James Beach...
Frontiers of Artificial Intelligence: humanity in the digital era
The workshop "Frontiers of Artificial Intelligence" held on Tuesday, May 21, at 18:30 at the Museo Nazionale S...
2018 Fellowships Winners
On March 28, in Milan, IBSA Foundation has awarded the four winners of the 2018 IBSA Fellowships for their hig...
Theo Jansen for the first time in Lugano
IBSA Foundation has entered into an important partnership with the National Museum of Science and Technology, ...
Let’s Science! Lugano 2018
Let’s Science! came to Lugano with a particularly educational goal and a weekly programme dedicated to middle ...
USI and IBSA Foundation scholarships awards 2018
On October 26, 2018, 19 scholarships were awarded by IBSA Foundation for Scientific Research to USI students e...
State-of-the-art science: making invisible things visible
On 18 October 2018 the photographer Thomas Struth and the physicist James Beacham had a conversation at the LA...
"La Scienza a regola d’Arte" - James Beacham and Thomas Struth
The German photographer Thomas Struth and the American physicist James Beachem will meet in Lugano, in the hal...
Scientific views on migrations
The migration requires a complex interpretation that brings into play different fields: history, anthropology...
Workshop: The Male Diet
The meeting provided the opportunity to show how men are also becoming more and more aware of the importance o...
Artist's word - Alberto Nessi
Yesterday's meeting "La Scienza a regola d'arte" started with the reading by Igor Horvat of this poem by the T...
"La Scienza a regola d’Arte" - Armin Linke and Paolo Cortini
Has the Holocene come to an end entering in a new era called Anthropocene for the changes that mankind has imp...
Adriana Albini in the Board of Directors of AACR
On April 13th, Adriana Albini was elected in the Board of Directors of the American Association for Cancer Res...
The new nutrition era: molecules and human health
The Forum "The new nutrition era: from molecular mechanisms to human health", organized by the IBSA Foundation...
2017 Fellowships Winners
The IBSA Foundation Fellowships awarded on 22 March in Lugano will finance five research projects in 2018.
Let’s Science!: 8 common sense rules for surviving fake news on the internet.
According to the scientific journalist Gianluca Dotti, there are several precautions that we should take every...
Let’s Science! Comics, meetings and insights in Milan
A project created by the IBSA Foundation and designed to converse with the city, institutions and the media on...
"La Scienza a regola d’Arte" - Wolfgang Laib and Silvia Bencivelli
The second meeting of the series “La Scienza a Regola d’Arte”, that will see the German artist in dialogue wit...
India according to Federico and Costanza Rampini
the journalist and writer Federico Rampini met with his daughter Costanza, an environmental scientist who live...
USI and IBSA Foundation scholarships awards 2017
On Friday, October 20th, 2017, IBSA Foundation for Scientific Research granted the first scholarships intended...
Female Healthy Aging
The most advanced remedies to overcome disturbances and to live in good health during menopause: this is the t...
EFIC IBSA Foundation Publication Award 2016
The 10th Congress of the European Pain Federation held in Copenhagen, Denmark on 6-9 september 2017 hosted t...
Basic mechanisms of cancer immunotherapy
With immunotherapy it is possible to treat forms of tumor, which until recently were difficult to take care of...
"La Scienza a regola d’Arte" - Tony Cragg and Piergiorgio Odifreddi
The artist Tony Cragg and the mathematics and science communicator Piergiorgio Odifreddi spoke about the relat...
The prizegiving of “Bufale in rete: come riconoscerle!"
“Bufale in rete: come riconoscerle!” (“Hoaxes on the web: how to recognize them!”). The contest, promoted by I...
2016 Fellowships Winners
Five young researchers have been selected by IBSA Foundation as winners of the Fellowships IBSA 2016.
E- Health between hoaxes and the truth
At the basis of this meeting between experts, scholars, the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, and patient associat...
"Bufale in rete: come riconoscerle!" The contest
The competition is for middle-school and high-school students who will participate in two separate sections, a...
Health literacy, what is this?
Health literacy is just this: the ability to understand and assess the accuracy and reliability of health info...
EFIC IBSA Foundation Publication Award 2015
On September 21, 2016 in Dubrovnik, Croatia, the opening ceremony of the first “EFIC Topical Symposium on acut...
Technologies to treat neurodisorders: neuroprosthetics
Pioneering prostheses are going to dramatically improve quality of life for millions of patients, as are new t...
The thyroid… in the periphery!
Are we on the verge of a new era in thyroid gland knowledge and understanding its potential for treatment of d...
2015 Fellowships Winners
A bridge between young scientists’ ideas and their realization through projects. This is the opportunity given...
Launch the new USI’s biomedical sciences faculty
IBSA Foundation is part of the project for the launch of the new USI’s Biomedical Sciences Faculty in Lugano ...
E-health: progress or danger?
Growth and increasing use of the Internet, social networks and mobile technologies have changed the way Italia...
Oncological immunology arrives at the clinic
Immunotherapy has opened up a whole new era in cancer treatment. It works by harnessing the immune system to f...
Stress, Inflammation and Reproduction
Stress affects psychological health and the immune system causing inflammation that interferes with the reprod...
Sexual Health and Sexual Ecology
Medical specialists and researchers were brought together for an-depth discussion of the various aspects invol...
2014 Fellowships Winners
Now in its third year, the IBSA Foundation’s fellowship program is a commitment the Foundation is particularly...
The human brain and social media: how are individuals changing?
Our lives are increasingly intertwined with digital technologies, especially social media that are already use...
Aging: is it a disease?
A hundred specialists and investigators have discussed aging and related disorders on occasion of the Forum ti...
EFIC IBSA Foundation Publication Award 2014
The 9th Congress of the European Pain Federation held in Vienna, Austria on 2-5 September 2015 hosted the cer...
Metabolic diseases and tendinopathies: the missing link
Students, researchers and medical specialists have had the opportunity to compare themselves with a pathology ...
EFIC IBSA Foundation Publication Award 2013
On 26 May 2014, the EFIC Award – IBSA Foundation 2013 has been delivered during the annual EFIC Council Meetin...
2013 Fellowships Winners
Anna Scanu and Jingjing Chen are the first in what hopefully over the years will become a long string of resea...
Stem cell therapy: hype or hope?
The forum provided a major opportunity for discussing where stem cell science stands today and its true potent...
Forum - "What’s new in hypothyroidism?"
“What’s new in hypothyroidism?” is the title of the meeting held in Gubbio (Perugia), Italy, on September 28, ...
Treatment of subclinical hypothyroidism in children, women and other adults
The forum on subclinical hypothyroidism held in Stresa, Italy, inaugurated the iBSA foundation’s commitment in...