Events

Upcoming events

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Seminar

Development of AI in health with Prof. Dr. Marcel Salathé

Friday 5th December, 12.15-13.30 University Main Building, Room 205, Hochschulstrasse 4. 3012 Bern

Workshop

Engaging in Policymaking as a Researcher

Tuesday 25th November 2025, 08.30-17.00; UniS, Schanzeneckstrasse 1, Bern

Vice-Rectorate International and Academic Careers

Organised by PD Dr. Caroline Schlaufer (EPL / KPM) and the Franxini Project, Reatch

See here for further information and to register

Past MCID events

2025

Podium Discussion UniBE talks

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Wo sind die Grenzen der Wissenschaftlichkeit? Where are the limits of Science?

5th November 2025, 18.15-19.45, Kuppelraum, UniBE Hauptgebäude, moderated by Servan Grüniger from Reatch.ch, featuring MCID members Prof. Dr. Eva Gluenz, PD Dr. Caroline Schlaufer, and Prof. Dr. Volker Thiel.

Further reports on the event can be read: MCID webpage and UniAktuell article (in German).

Science@Lunch

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The Ethics and Policy Lab at the MCID and insights into a current research project

PD Dr. Caroline Brall gave a lunch time seminar on the 28th October at the Vetsuisse weekly Science@Lunch seminar series, where she gave an insight in the Ethics and Policy Lab and explained some of the ongoing projects.

MCID outreach

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Nacht der Forschung 2025

6th September 2025, 16.00-23.00, Hauptgebaude Room 105. Once again the MCID team were present at the University of Bern's "Night of Science". This is always an important date in our diary and is always great fun presenting the MCID message to the general public.

To find out more read our full report here.

MCID outreach

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Vetsuisse Open House

On June 28th, the Vetsuisse Faculty opened its doors to the public. The MCID organised a range of activities from "splat the pathogen" to face painting and from a quiz to test visitors' infectious disease knowledge to a pathogen detective activity. MCID-funded research was also presented in posters and prizes were won.

Read more here

Symposium

Graduate School for Cellular and Biomedical Sciences (GCB) Annual Symposium

Thursday 26th June 2025, 09.00-19.00 vonRoll - University of Bern. Fabrikstr. 6 & 8; 3012 Bern

Eight PhD students supported by MCID-funding presented their research at the 2025 Graduate School for Cellular and Biomedical Sciences Symposium

Read more here

BEA 2025

BEready present "Ticks under the magnifying glass"

25th April-4th May 2025, BERNEXPO, Bern

The BEready team took part in BEA 2025 with their activity "Ticks under the magnifying glass", engaging with the public on this key topic and taking the opportunity to present the BEready Cohort.

Read more here

Africa-Europe 360° cooperation

MCID in UniBE delegation: Initiative Afrique

10th April 2025, Brussels

The MCID were part of UniBE's delegation at the event "Africa-Europe 360° cooperation" hosted by the Mission of Switzerland to the EU and co-organized by the Initiative Afrique, University of Bern and SwissCore. Carmen Faso, MCID Co-Chair presented the Africa-Europe Cluster of Research Excellence Genomics for Health in Africa, Co-Lead by the MCID.

Read more here

2024

Podium Discussion

How political can science be? Wie politisch darf Wissenschaft sein?

Tuesday 3rd December, 18.00-20.00,Kuppelraum, UniBE Hauptgebäude. Organised by Reatch and PD Dr. Caroline Schlaufer (MCID Ethics and Policy Lab and KPM Center for Public Management).

For more information, see here.

Annual Event

MCID Annual Event 2024

4th July 2024, 08.45-17.15. UniS (room S003), Schanzeneckstrasse 1, Bern.

The MCID Annual Event 2024 took place on 4th July 2024. The event featured 10 oral presentations and 25 poster presentations on a wide range of topics linked to infectious disease research, many but not all of which were linked to MCID-funded research. The event ended with a panel discussion on the topic of the science-policy interface post-pandemic. The full program including presentation abstracts and panel participants can be viewed here.

Information Event

Vogelgrippe (H5N1) in Kühen in den USA: was bedeutet das für die Schweiz?

28th May 2024. This information event (held in German) was organised by the MCID and the Geneva Center for Emerging Viral Diseases in response to detection of Influenza H5N1 in dairy cows in the USA. The event provided information from experts on the current situation and a platform for discussion and was attended by more than 240 people.

See here for a recording of the webinar.

Symposium

Revision of the Swiss Epidemics Act

This information event on the revision of the Swiss Epidemics Act was open to all and aimed at scientists, representatives from administration and politics, as well as people from civil society interested in the topic.

See here for more information and copies of presentations: in English, auf Deutsch (event held in German).

2023

Franxini Project

Boot Camp on politics

7th and 8th June 2023. Open to MCID and OCCR members

See here for more details.

Workshop

Reflecting on ethical dimensions of your research and obtaining ethics approval

7th March 2023, 13.30-17.00. Run by the Ethics and Policy Lab

See here for more details.

2022

Nacht der Forschung 2022

University of Bern Nacht der Forschung ("Achtung, Ansteckend")

Saturday 10th September, 16.00-00.00. This was a public in-person event.

See here for more details.

Public Event

Monkeypox information event via Twitter Spaces

Wednesday 29th June 2022, 18.00-19.00. This was a public event held using Twitter spaces.

Click here for a full sound recording of the event as welll as more information.

Event

MCID Opening Event

June 9th and 10th 2022

Click here for a full program and more information about the event to mark the official opening of the MCID.

2021

Event

MCID-Omicron Event

The MCID-Omicron event, "The SARS-CoV-2 variant Omicron: a snapshot of where we are", took place on 8th December 2021.

Please see here for more details and for a full recording of the event.