Category: News
The heart of the Leap community – Project deep dives
19. January 2022
We believe that innovation often is the product of collaboration. Therefore, digitalswitzerland created Leap, the Collaborative Innovation programme that serves as the neutral Swiss platform for collaborative innovation projects. The goal is to bring together the relevant stakeholders to solve pressing challenges that are better solved as a team. Within our network, we discuss dozens […]
Leap enters pilot with ZHAW Master students
21. October 2021
Eco photo created by freepik – www.freepik.com In September, Leap by digitalswitzerland kicked off their collaboration with students pursuing their MSc BA Innovation & Entrepreneurship at ZHAW in Winterthur. Together, we are organising a workshop centred around Food Waste & Systems, taking place on 18 November 2021 in Bern. The students from ZHAW MSc BA […]
Learn2Leap is taking off!
18. August 2021
At Leap, the Swiss platform for multi-stakeholder innovation, we have just launched our newest offering: Learn2Leap! The fully-decentralised learning programme is an exclusive free offer for employees of digitalswitzerland member organisations to accelerate their innovation journey! When participating in the programme, you will get insights from leading academics and innovation experts from the University of […]
The new Learn2Leap learning programme is here!
27. July 2021
Are you currently working on a transversal project? And are you battling with the challenges of transversal collaboration? Or are you simply interested to know what it takes to execute an innovation project across organisational boundaries? Then the Learn2Leap programme is for you! Programme outline Learn2Leap* is a self-paced learning programme, which features practical insights […]
The win of collaborative innovation
30. June 2021
“We start together and we finish together,” as my sports instructor likes to say. This mantra has followed me for several years and I always like to remember it when thinking about teamwork. Leap by digitalswitzerland fosters a very special kind of teamwork: cross-organisational innovative collaboration. As the Swiss platform for multi-stakeholder innovation, Leap enables […]
Enhance Swiss-made digital infrastructure together
6. May 2021
Has your time online increased because most parts of the physical world seemed to stand still? The pandemic has made it abundantly clear just how dependent we have become on cables, hardware, software, and platforms in several areas in life. Many of us are working from home, we’ve become frequent visitors of e-commerce sites and […]
Confetti, Cameras and Collaborative Innovation
29. April 2021
The highlights of the Leap Digital Demo Day 2021: An iconic winner, the internet of mobility and a new training opportunity to flex our innovation muscles! The Leap Demo Day has traditionally been THE annual event, where new and ongoing multi-stakeholder innovation projects coming out of Leap present their endeavours and achievements at Kraftwerk in […]
Together towards a more sustainable and circular Swiss economy
26. April 2021
At Leap by digitalswitzerland, we conducted a Workshop Series in March focusing on the challenges and innovation potential of Sustainability with special attention to Circular Economy and Decarbonisation. The goal was to find common challenges among different organisations, to then boost their creativity and foster the joint creation of innovative solutions. Combining Efforts At the […]
Tired of facing challenges alone?
25. March 2021
Are you battling challenges in your industry? Have you tried to solve them but couldn’t find the solution on your own? You’re not the only one and that’s why the Leap platform offers free support to tackle underlying transversal challenges. Together, we explore opportunities, unmet needs, plus areas to innovate for you, along with your […]
Accelerate Decarbonisation through Digital Solutions
16. March 2021
The Swiss Federal Council has set the 2050 climate strategy for Switzerland as part of the Paris Agreement. To achieve the common goal of limiting global warming to well below 2°C, economy, technology, and science experts must work together. However, such multi-stakeholder collaboration also requires data transparency for the green transition of whole value chains […]
How Digital Innovation Can Benefit Sustainability
5. March 2021
With the omnipresent topic of climate change, it’s become very clear that innovation needs to be sustainable. We at Leap by digitalswitzerland have made it our goal to help build multi-stakeholder collaboration to strengthen Swiss organisations and society through launching not only impact-driven but also sustainable innovation. To tackle underlying transversal challenges, we’re now introducing […]
Boosting Leap Projects with a New Executive Training
24. February 2021
Through shared knowledge, collaboration and courage, Leap by digitalswitzerland strengthens Swiss organisations and society through pioneering sustainable and impact-driven innovation. Only by taking the leap to cross barriers and join forces within and across organisations, true innovation can happen. digitalswitzerland offers its members the Leap platform to meet like-minded people and companies, to develop a […]
Leap & Accenture collaborate on Digital Health
14. October 2020
Since the beginning of the year, we’ve been busy aligning two formerly separate innovation programmes to create the newly combined programme Leap. The goal of Leap is to use lessons learned from the previous programme’s and support organisations to collaboratively tackle systemic and interdisciplinary challenges. Aim of the Collaboration with Accenture? The aim of our upcoming joint […]
GETKICKBOX | Building an Open Innovation Ecosystem
8. July 2020
When the Kickbox program was established at Swisscom 5 years ago, my task was not to build and run an intrapreneurship program. I was responsible for identifying start-ups that could collaborate with Swisscom. The agile start-up culture collided strongly with the mentality of a large corporation. A new approach was needed to provide opportunities for […]
Kitaclub.ch | Let’s solve childcare
17. June 2020
In its ‘Progress Barometer’, Credit Suisse identified childcare as one of the most important issues to be addressed and resolved. More recently, the Covid-19 crisis has proved more than ever: childcare is not only nice to have, but that it is systemically relevant to our modern society. Kitaclub.ch Regardless of their work model – from […]