Cluster International challenges

The cluster international challenges promotes structured and ongoing dialogue between politics and science on current developments in international cooperation.  

Responsibilities   

The cluster international challenges supports political decision-makers with evidence-bsed, scientific expertise. It is part of the National Network for Scientific Advice. It addresses potential global challenges and risks for Switzerland at the intersection of economic, trade and security policy.   

The steering committee brings together researcjers from various disciplines, including security policy, economic policy, social sciences and humanitarian crises. Thanks to this diversity of expertise, they are able to consider international challenges from multiple perspectives by linking fact-based analyses with projetions and risk scenarios.  

Steering committee

Expertise: Citizenship, Integration, and Multiculturalism

Université de Genève
Matteo.Gianni@unige.ch

Expertise: political economy of security, European Union, armament production, economic security, war financing

Université de Genève

Catherine.Hoeffler@unige.ch

Expertise: Science and technology innovation, extreme human vulnerability, poverty, humanitarian crises and armed conflict.

EPFL ESSTECH

klaus.schonenberger@epfl.ch

Expertise: Security Studies

ETH Zürich

wenger@sipo.gess.ethz.ch

Expertise: International Law

Université de Lausanne

andreas.ziegler@unil.ch

Contact

International challenges

Clemens Tuor 

Repsonsible for coordination 

Effingerstrasse 15 

3001 Bern