Portrait NRP 77 Digital Transformation

Portrait of the National Research Programme (NRP 77)

Digital Transformation

Digital Transformation Today, digital technology influences our lives in many areas: smartphones, chat services, and social media are changing the way we live together in families, groups, organisations, and society. Digital tools are also omnipresent in the economy, the world of work and the education system, and consequently affect how entire companies work, how we interact with each other at the workplace and how we make private and political decisions.

Digitalisation and social changes influence each other. The Swiss population can benefit from this interrelationship in a wide range of areas: the emergence of new business fields, more straightforward communication, increasingly efficient work processes, and participatory collaborations.

However, digitalisation can also have negative consequences, thus sparking fears of job loss, of restriction of personal freedom, or democracy. Some even fear that we will lose control over machines powered by artificial intelligence.

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The National Research Programme «Digital Transformation» (NRP 77) aims to investigate such interrelationships. Its goal is to identify opportunities, mitigate risks, answer questions, and present policy options for our country. To be able to do so, it is necessary to analyse the consequences of digital change in various fields in the Swiss context. This is achieved through 46 research projects, divided into three programme modules covering the areas of 1) «Education, learning and digital change», 2) «Ethics, trustworthiness and

governance», and 3) «Digital economy and labour market».

Potential interventions and solutions will be developed, thus laying the foundation for optimal management and governance of current and future digital transformation. The research findings will be used to formulate concrete recommendations and solutions for the optimal management of digital change. The NRP 77 has a total budget of 30 million Swiss francs. It was launched in 2020 and will run for five years.

Module 1 «Education, learning and digital change»

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Module 2 «Ethics, trustworthiness and governance»

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Module 1 «Education, learning and digital change»

Module 2 «Ethics, trustworthiness and governance»

Module 3 «Digital economy and labour market»

What are the advantages of tablets, robots, or augmented reality in the classroom? How can the productivity of group processes be increased? What skills do teachers need for digital teaching? How can digital means of communication in hospitals optimise care?

What is artificial intelligence allowed to do, and to what extent can we trust this technology? What is the use of digital health data and who benefits from this information? Can artificial intelligence be fair? And how do digitalised media change public opinion formation and consequently democratic processes?

How can collaborations between human beings and intelligent machines be optimised? To what extent do digital technologies change the demands on working individuals and the labour market as a whole? And how can the balance between work and private life be maintained?

This module examines the effects of digitalisation on education, on the one hand in terms of content, skills and the imparting of competencies, and on the other hand in terms of lifelong learning processes and institutions relevant to education.

This module focuses on the ethical, organisational, legal, and technical challenges related to securing and strengthening trust in digital infrastructures or digital services. These challenges will in particular be examined for individual, relevant areas and technologies such as artificial intelligence or digital democracy.

This module focuses on the impact of digital change on the labour market, as well as on the economy in terms of productivity and competitiveness. The aim is to examine new digital markets, organisational forms, business models and the effects on the world of work, work organisation and content, as well as to investigate the regional development in Switzerland.

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Projects

Module 1 «Education, learning and digital change»

Robotrust Farinaz Fassa Recrosio Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lausanne

Scie nce and highe r e ducation

Learning analytics dashboards

Katja Rost

Pierre Dillenbourg

Department of Sociology, University of Zurich

Computer-Human Interaction in Learning and Instruction CHILI, EPF Lausanne

Older adults Sabina Misoch

Nursing education

Institute for Ageing Research, Eastern Switzerland

Ines Trede

University of Applied Sciences

Swiss Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training, Zollikofen

E-inclusion

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Gabriela Antener

Compute r scie nce conce pts

Institute for Integration and Participation,

Eva Marinus

University of Applied Sciences and Arts

Institute for Media and School, Schwyz University

Northwestern Switzerland

of Teacher Education

Education te chnologie s

Te ache r compe te ncie s

Olivier Ertz

Dorothee Brovelli

Media Engineering Institute, University of Applied

Research and Development, University of Teacher

Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland

Education Lucerne

Virtual re ality in schools

Computational thinking

Information consumption

Corinna Martarelli

Francesco Mondada

Nathalie Giger

Faculty of Psychology, UniDistance Suisse

Mobile Robotic Systems Group, EPF Lausanne

Geneva School of Social Sciences, University of Geneva

Educational monitoring Ingo Barkow

Ne ws re comme nde r syste ms

Swiss Institute for Information Science, University

Frank Esser

of Applied Sciences of the Grisons

Department of Communication and Media Research (IKMZ), University of Zurich

Digital transformation of upper secondary schools

Module 2 «Ethics, trustworthiness and governance»

Digital information re pe rtoire s

Dominik Petko

Mark Eisenegger

Institute of Education, University of Zurich

Department of Communication and Media Research (IKMZ), University of Zurich

Digital learning games Dominique Jaccard

Gove rnance and artificial inte llige nce

Cybersecurity

Media Engineering Institute, University of Applied

Klaus Möller

Markus Christen

Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland

Institute of Accounting, Control & Auditing,

UZH Digital Society Initiative, University of Zurich

University of St. Gallen

Collaborative learning

Control ove r artificial inte llige nce

Carmen Zahn

Local communication

Thomas Burri

Institute for Research and Development of

Matthias Künzler

Law School, University of St. Gallen

Collaborative Processes, University of Applied

Institut für Multimedia Production, University

Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland

of Applied Sciences of the Grisons

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Module 3 «Digital economy and labour market»

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Digital de mocratic innovations

Connected workplace

Marc Bühlmann

Tobias Mettler

Année Politique Suisse, University of Bern

IDHEAP Swiss Graduate School of Public

Module 3 «Digital economy and labour market»

Administration, University of Lausanne

Fair algorithms Christoph Heitz

Digital health

Organisations and marke ts

Institute of Data Analysis and Process Design,

Effy Vayena

Mathias Beck

Zurich University of Applied Sciences

Department of Health Sciences and Technology,

KOF Swiss Economic Institute, ETH Zurich

ETH Zurich

Judgme nt anonymisation

Work-life boundary manage me nt

Andreas Lienhard

Digital democracy

Michaela Knecht

KPM Center for Public Management, University

Regula Hänggli

Institute Humans in Complex Systems, University

of Bern

Department of Communication and Media

of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern

Research, University of Fribourg

Switzerland

Tenzin Wangmo

Mobile health data

Gig work

Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel

Bernice Elger

Caroline Straub

Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel

New Work Institute, Bern University of

Smart-home-technologies

Trust

Applied Sciences

Peter Schaber The Center for Ethics, University of Zurich

Employment Conny Wunsch Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Basel

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Nurse crowd working

Skill profiles

Online job platforms

Florian Liberatore

Marlis Buchmann

Michael Siegenthaler

Department of Business Law, Zurich University

Department of Sociology, University of Zurich

KOF Swiss Economic Institute, ETH Zurich

of Applied Sciences

Optimal active labour marke t policy Spatial economy

Michael Lechner

Maximilian von Ehrlich

Swiss Institute for Empirical Economic Research,

Department of Economics, University of Bern

University of St. Gallen

Tax competition Marco D’Ambros

Human-artificial intelligence interaction

CodeLounge, Software Institute, Università della

Nadine Bienefeld

Svizzera italiana

Chair of Work and Organizational Psychology, ETH Zurich

Smart cities Edy Portmann

Human-robot inte raction

Human-IST Institut, University of Fribourg

Sarah Dégallier Rochat Department of Engineering and Information

Digital skills

Technology, Bern University of Applied Sciences

Ulrich Kaiser Department of Business Administration,

Me dical de cision support

University of Zurich

Wolf Hautz Department of Emergency Medicine, Inselspital, University of Bern

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Procedure

November 2018 Publication of call

December 2019 Projects’ approval

December 2019 Second call

January 2020 Start of the research projects

January 2020 Monitoring and scientific exchange

December 2024 Completion of the research projects

September 2020 Kick-off Meeting

June 2020 Projects’ approval second call

December 2025 Completion development of programme products

December 2026 End of NRP 77

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