Working Groups of the «Platform SAP»

Research in the Alps: Interacademic Commission on Alpine Studies ICAS
Biodiversity: Swiss Biodiversity Forum
Research National Park: Research Council of the Swiss National Park
Research Partnership North-South: Commission for Research Partnerships with Developing Countries
Genetic Research: Genetic Research Forum
Climate and Global Change: ProClim- Forum for Climate and Global Change
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Polar Research: Swiss Committee on Polar and High Altitude Research

Mission

The «Platform Science and Policy» (SAP) is focused on socially relevant issues from a scientific, interdisciplinary and interacademic perspective. It supports the development of topic-specific solutions by contributing knowledge to the discourse of politics, administration, economy and society, in coordination with the SCNAT Board. It pursues its mission by means of the following activities:

• Establishment and maintenance of thematic communities.
• Creation and management of communication and information platofrms (knowledge management), coordination and publishing.
• International networking and support of international conventions and research programmes, or of researchers involved in international activities.
• Cooperation and dialogue (bridging the gap) with «Hochschule Schweiz» (Swiss Universities, Zurich and Lausanne Institutes of Technology, Swiss research institutions) to safeguard and expand the level of expertise in the Swiss «science and research arena» (Forschungsstandort Schweiz).
• Maintenance of contacts with (national and international) research promotion institutions to ensure early diagnosis.
• Cooperation and networking within the platform in its core areas of early diagnosis and dialogue.

President: Paul Messerli   e-mail: mep@giub.unibe.ch

Board (consisting of the presidents of the Working Groups)   Bruno Baur Heinz Gutscher Christian Körner Patrick Matthias Pasqualina Perrig-Chiello Urs Scherrer Bruno Stöckli Heinz Veit

Chief Science Officer Urs Neu   Tel.: 031 328 23 26 e-mail: neu@scnat.ch

Adresses of the SAP-Working Groups

ICAS

President: Heinz Veit, Tel. 031 631 85 61, e-mail: veit@giub.unibe.ch

Office: Thomas Scheurer, Tel. 031 318 70 18, e-mail: scheurer@scnat.ch

Swiss Biodiversity Forum

President: Christian Körner, Tel. 061 267 35 10, e-mail: ch.koerner@unibas.ch

Office: Daniela Pauli, Tel. 031 312 02 75, e-mail: pauli@scnat.ch

Research Council of the Swiss National Park

President: Bruno Baur, Tel. 061 267 08 29, e-mail: bruno.baur@unibas.ch

Office: Thomas Scheurer, Tel. 031 318 70 18, e-mail: scheurer@scnat.ch

KFPE

Presidents: Marcel Tanner, Tel. 061 284 82 87, e-mail: marcel.tanner@unibas.ch; Bruno Stöckli, Tel. 031 390 93 33, e-mail: bruno.stoeckli@alliancesud.ch

Office: Jon-Andri Lys, Tel. 031 311 06 01, e-mail: lys@scnat.ch

Genetic Research Forum

President: Patrick Matthias, Tel. 061 697 66 61, e-mail: patrick.matthias@fmi.ch

Office: Stefan Nussbaum, Tel. 031 310 40 25, e-mail: nussbaum@scnat.ch

ProClim

President: Heinz Gutscher, Tel. 044 635 72 70, e-mail: gutscher@sozpsy.uzh.ch

Office: Christoph Ritz, ProClim, Tel. 031 328 23 24, e-mail: ritz@scnat.ch

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President: Pasqualina Perrig-Chiello, Tel. 031 631 40 35, e-mail: pasqualina.perrigchiello@psy.unibe.ch

Office: Christian Pohl, Theres Paulsen, Tel. 031 310 40 94, e-mail: pohl@scnat.ch, paulsen@scnat.ch

SKPH:

President: Urs Scherrer, Tel. 021 314 09 34, e-mail: urs.scherrer@chuv.ch

Office: Vera Kaufmann, Tel. 031 318 70 18, e-mail: kaufmann@scnat.ch