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Le 12h30 de la RTS consacre quelques minutes à cette thématique

Table ronde animée par une équipe de TRANSFORM

Une chercheuse de TRANSFORM participe à un séminaire international

Évènement de clôture de Pousses Urbaines, 15ème édition

Les analyses de revitalisation rurale et villageoise se poursuivent au sein du projet du NRP 81 "Baukultur"

Formation consacrée au réemploi de l’acier structurel

Une chercheuse de TRANSFORM donne une conférence à Rouen

TRANSFORM participates in this annual event organized by EPFL and UNIL

L'émission "Tribu" sur la RTS aborde la thématique des sols

Rencontre du consortium du projet SUNLOOP en Belgique

L'émission "On en parle" sur la RTS aborde la thématique de l'air intérieur en hiver

Atelier et table ronde sur les enjeux et les alternatives aux processus de démolition

Discover the article published in the October 2, 2025, Alliance Newsletter describing iRap’s expertise in Ceramic Injection Molding

Professor David Cajander presented the results of the research in collaboration with the CERN

En collaboration avec l’EPFL Fribourg et ECONS SA, le Centre romand de la qualité de l’air intérieur et du radon (croqAIR) dirigé par la Prof. Joëlle Goyette Pernot au sein de l’institut TRANSFORM de la HEIA-FR a développé et s’apprête à mettre en place une infrastructure de mesure inédite du radon.

In spring 2025, two high-profile reports on autonomous mobility have been published - one in Switzerland and the other in the European Union. Both highlight ROSAS as an important player in this field.

RENO-NE: Comment concilier patrimoine et énergie?

Séminaire international sur la pédagogie de la transformation, ENSAP Lille, 25-26 mars 2025

Fribourg at the Heart of Life Sciences Innovation!

Two collaborators of ROSAS presented the project CAMINO during this conference

Défis et opportunités de la transition numérique du domaine de la construction

Plusieurs professeur.es de TRANSFORM participent à cette discussion organisée dans le cadre des Journées suisses du logement 2024

a big success

The role of stereochemistry in the anticancer activity of Re(I) tricarbonyl complexes

Mieux aérer pour mieux respirer : du concept à la réalisation

The life science event !

Mission time in ISO 13849 and required actions for different case. How do you define the mission time for your safety related system? Do you need replacement of a component? Rosa tells…

Improvement of the fish health of the Musée océanographique de Monaco

Prof. Nicolas Grandjean and his team will present the project POLYNORM on Tuesday June 27 2024

Brewer’s spent grain as a self-sufficient feedstock for homofermentative production of optically pure L-lactic acid using Lactobacillus rhamnosus

Continuous stirred tank reactor for oxidations

Chemist or Chemical Engineer for flow synthesis of peptides

Fast, efficient, results-oriented development

The SCS Seminar on Flow Chemistry 2024

New Types of Dynamic Reactor

Towards chemical understanding

ChemTech and Bioeconomy

As part of the CIM++ research project, Ceramaret, Primaform and the iRAP institute investigated the potential of a variotherm control system for the CIM process.

Networking around Science and a lunch at ChemTech

Our colleague Ilkcan Coskun has published a scientific article on "Implementation Possibilities of Standard Site Method Sub-cases for EMC Antenna Calibrations in Non-ideal Site Conditions" in the JEES, edition July 2023.

We are building the future.

Commercial Space Days on 11-12 September 2023 in Luzern

Prof. Stefanie Schwab participates at the Consortium Meeting 2023 of RENOWAVE

Conducting a Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) analysis in accordance with EASA Acceptable Means of Compliance: A Guideline for Better Understanding

Elena Mugellini répond aux questions sur les avancées des technologies de pointe.

Isabel Concheiro participe à cette conférence qui aura lieu du 30 août au 1er septembre 2023.

On Friday, June 2nd, 2023, the Federation of Swiss Architects (FAS) held its general assembly in Fribourg.

Article dans La Liberté

Un îlot de fraî­cheur dans l’es­pace pu­blic

Le pavillon est installé dans la cour d'école de Grand-Champ à Gland.

ROSAS has renewed its Carbon Fri label and is committed to a sustainable local economy.

Through SwissMoves' and ROSAS' engagement with SAAM, we are proud to participate in the Ultimo project.

Isabel Concheiro a participé à cette journée qui a eu lieu le 4 avril.

As part of a Horizon Europe project, Prof. Ludovic Gremaud explains to the RTS television news programme his work which makes it possible to manufacture active ingredients without the use of solvents.

From today on, the self-driving LOXO Alpha will bring the same day delivery orders from Migros to the Schindler campus in Ebikon. This is an absolute premiere in Switzerland!

LOXO presented its new vehicle today in Bern.

Our colleague Dr. Ludovic Gremaud and his team discover pentacyclic product derivative from the natural product perophoramidine, as a formidable anticancer agent

New partnership between ROSAS and UAS Solutions

The head of our institute Christophe Allemann took part of a roundtable about sustainability in life sciences

TRANSFORM participates in this year European Radon Week

« Le génie logiciel est à l'informatique ce que le génie civil est à la maçonnerie. »

Curriculum Change in India

ChemTech has played a decisive role in the safe development of a key step in the synthesis of a new antimalarial drug

Un outil utile à tous les domaines

A visit to the Aerospace Innovation Day

ChemTech Institute – Plasticycle wins the Swiss-Middle East Circular Economy for Youth Initiative at EXPO2020

We are very pleased to introduce our new Associate Professor Hans-Ulrich Siegenthaler.

Two professors of Chemtech, O. Mamula Steiner and C. Allemann, have made a interesting discover about the Pinene–Bipyridine Ligands

Radon in indoor environments: the influence of weather conditions

Prof. Roger Marti presented the latest results on the use of flow chemistry at the Flow Chemistry Symposium held last October

The ChemTech Institute presented its latest results on ionic liquids as phase change materials at the FTAL Meeting in October 2021

The institute was present at the last ILMAC, chemistry fair

ChemTech and the HEIA-FR hosted the annual STK conference on the subject of "thermal analysis and safety".

Le Big Data et le machine learning sont aujourd'hui au cœur de nombreux projets d'innovation liés aux industries 3.0 et 4.0. La HEIA-FR est très bien placée dans ce domaine grâce à la création, en 2013 de l'institut des systèmes complexes iCoSys.

Nous avons exposé aux côtés de Swiss Association for Autonomous Mobility lors de l'événement SmartSuisse à Bâle.

Short return to the event ElectriFly-In where ROSAS ad SwissMoves have exposed.

ROSAS, with sixteen other partners from six different countries, has launched this exciting project named "Orchestra" which aims to orchestrate traffic management across all transport modes and in the presence of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs). This is ROSAS' first european project.

European Radon Week 2021 will be held at the blueFACTORY site in Fribourg from the 13th to the 15th of October, 2021. The event will bring together 60 leading radon experts from 22 different countries, including industry professionals, researchers and government officials in the area of radiation protection.

Prof. Ludovic Gremaud and the team of the department of Chemistry from the the Shiv Nadar University in India discovered a sustainable C–H functionalization of indoles, pyrroles and furan and recenlty published their breakthrough

Retour sur la Journée de la mobilité qui a accueilli plus de 250 personnes pour découvrir la mobilité sous toutes ses formes.

High performance integration of electronic components in an overmoulding

Successful collaboration between iRAP and the Adolphe Merkle Institute for the development of an industrializable purification cassette to detect malaria more easily.

L’institut de Recherche Appliquée en Plasturgie (iRAP) vous accompagne dans le développement de produits et de solutions innovantes via l'injection céramique.

Retour sur une journée importante pour le domaine de la mobilité autonome suisse : la démonstration du premier véhicule piloté à distance en Suisse.

ChemTech has optimised an existing process developed at the milligram scale to several tens of grams.

CE Mark FAQ

Opting for ceramic injection molding brings you an opportunity to obtain complex designs.

Cette vidéo vous présente comment ce partenariat a permis la fabrication de rotors à partir d’une matière magnétisable.

Partez à la découverte du monde fascinant du machine learning et de son application à un domaine en pleine expansion.

Découvrez l’histoire d’une collaboration à succès pour le développement d’un produit innovant qui aujourd’hui a fait ses preuves sur la majorité des marchés mondiaux.

For several years, the company Metalor has been collaborating with our institute and benefits from the know-how of our students

Démonstration d'un véhicule opéré à distance par téléopération

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has published on March 2021 the IATA 2020 Safety Report about Airline Safety Performance for the commercial airline industry, and it shows some intriguing numbers.

Atena Solea has just achieved the defense of her PhD thesis in chemistry

The iPrint and iRAP Institutes are working with Swissmeca to improve the current tests in order to develop a new way of performing Gram stains.

Laure Dupuits est professeure en génie mécanique et chercheuse au sein de l’iRAP. Formée en France et en Angleterre, elle a commencé sa carrière à la HEIA-FR en 2010, après un passage par l’EPFL. Elle travaille à l’optimisation des matières plastiques, notamment en termes de conductivité.

ROSAS collabore avec 6 entreprises du secteur du transport, de la mobilité et de la certification, et 3 partenaires académiques pour favoriser le déploiement en Suisse de véhicules automatisés et pilotés à distance.

Le projet collaboratif SmartArcIO est un vrai succès pour les entreprises partenaires. Au bénéfice d’une subvention NPR, il couvre toute la chaîne de valeur de l’industrie 4.0 et ouvre de larges perspectives en termes d’innovation.

« L'analyse par reconnaissance des formes ouvre un tout nouveau monde »

L'institut iRAP présente le procédé d'injection céramique.

As of December 1, 2020, Bruno Bürgisser becomes the new head of the Institute for Applied Research in Plastics Processing (iRAP).

Les ruses mathématiques au service de l’innovation

Le centre de compétences ROSAS développe de nouveaux outils de maintenance prédictive pour les entreprises.

As you may have read in the newspapers, Swiss International Airlines (SWISS) made the decision in the morning of 15 October 2019 to ground all its Bombardier C Series aircraft, better known as the Airbus A220. But why?

Des nanoparticules au service du plastique

Discover Thomas Jusselme's paper

This paper presents a systematic review of virtual coaches specifically aimed at improving or maintaining older adults’ health in different domains, such as physical, nutritional, cognitive, social, and emotional.

TRANSFORM By Shen Yang; Vincent, Perret; Hélène Niculita-Hirzel; Corinne Hager Jörin; Joëlle Goyette Pernot; Dusan Licina In: Indoor Air 2020, 00, 1-11

A study covering all of French-speaking Switzerland found that energy-efficient renovation work on residential buildings tends to overlook the question of indoor air quality. The study’s authors, mainly from EPFL and the School of Engineering and Architecture of Fribourg (HEIA-FR), have called for greater attention to this issue.

To know more about Model-Based Engineering

SwissMoves enables the homologation of autonomous mobility.

Once certified, the new ROSAS tool will greatly simplify the use of processes and standards in functional safety.

Key outcomes of the Driftwood at spillways project presented to the public

Une recherche directement orientée vers les entreprises

Swisscom drives forward innovative 5G projects, which offer customers a wide range of applications with this generation of mobile communication. Together with the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, Swisscom is undertaking research with 5G projects in relation to the virtualisation of network functions (NFV). For public security, Swisscom is testing various applications, and mobile private networks demonstrate the possibilities for business customers.

Prof. Roger Marti as member of the Institute ChemTech was participating at the Kick-off meeting of the COST Action of the European network on “Furan based chemicals and materials for a Sustainable development” in November in Brussel.

Didier Vuarnoz (Institut ENERGY) has presented a paper at the 3rd International Symposium on Green Energy and Smart Grids - SGESG 2019 in Chongqing, China. This paper written in collaboration with Prof. Elena-Lavinia Niederhäuser, Dimitri Torregrossa and Prof. Dominique Gabioud (HES-SO Valais-Wallis) discusses the integration of power flexibility (PF) in new and existing cooling systems to avoid a possible cold crunch in the near future.

As of mid September 2019, we are proud to host at iCoSys several new student projects that will be realised in our labs