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Research projects

Our teams have many research projects in law, psychology, economics, history, mathematics and e-learning.

All Ongoing Completed
RSS
Organised Business and Environmental Governance in Western Europe [1945-1995]
Approved amount: 822169 CHF
Funding scheme: FNS - Project funding
Pitteloud Sabine // Denzer Naomi // Roost Michal
Status: Ongoing
Start: 01.03.2025
End: 28.02.2029
History
Organised Business and Environmental Governance in Western Europe [1945-1995]
Pitteloud Sabine // Denzer Naomi // Roost Michal
Approved amount:822169 CHF
Funding scheme: FNS - Project funding
Status: Ongoing
Start: 01.03.2025
End: 28.02.2029
History
Empowering Connections: Interpersonal Emotion Regulation as a Key to Managing Challenging Behaviors in Individuals with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities
Approved amount: -
Funding scheme: Service des hautes écoles de l'État du Valais
Samson Andrea // Eline de Gaspari // Elbassiouny Mai // Bohren Seraina // Ahmad Sam // Elena Rimoldi
Status: Completed
Start: 01.05.2025
End: 01.05.2026
Empowering Connections: Interpersonal Emotion Regulation as a Key to Managing Challenging Behaviors in Individuals with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities
Samson Andrea // Eline de Gaspari // Elbassiouny Mai // Bohren Seraina // Ahmad Sam // Elena Rimoldi
Approved amount:-
Funding scheme: Service des hautes écoles de l'État du Valais
Status: Completed
Start: 01.05.2025
End: 01.05.2026
Socio-emotional competences and academic performance in adolescents: a comparative evaluation of mindfulness meditation, improvisation theatre and board games interventions at school
Approved amount: -
Funding scheme: Interinstitutional project funding of the Canton of Valais
Samson Andrea
Psychology
Socio-emotional competences and academic performance in adolescents: a comparative evaluation of mindfulness meditation, improvisation theatre and board games interventions at school
Samson Andrea
Approved amount:-
Funding scheme: Interinstitutional project funding of the Canton of Valais
Psychology
Climate change: no laughing matter? Using humor to prevent and correct misinformation
Approved amount: -
Funding scheme: FNS - Project funding
Samson Andrea
Psychology
Climate change: no laughing matter? Using humor to prevent and correct misinformation
Samson Andrea
Approved amount:-
Funding scheme: FNS - Project funding
Psychology
Elucidating the neural bases of flexible emotion regulation in autistic children and adolescents
Approved amount: -
Funding scheme: Palatin Foundation
Samson Andrea // Berchio Cristina
Status: Ongoing
Start: 01.03.2026
End: 29.02.2028
Psychology
Elucidating the neural bases of flexible emotion regulation in autistic children and adolescents
Samson Andrea // Berchio Cristina
Approved amount:-
Funding scheme: Palatin Foundation
Status: Ongoing
Start: 01.03.2026
End: 29.02.2028
Psychology
A Collaborative History of Global Switzerland
Approved amount: 1733852 CHF
Funding scheme: FNS - Project funding
Schär Bernhard C.
Status: Ongoing
Start: 01.01.2022
End: 31.12.2026
History
A Collaborative History of Global Switzerland
Schär Bernhard C.
Approved amount:1733852 CHF
Funding scheme: FNS - Project funding
Status: Ongoing
Start: 01.01.2022
End: 31.12.2026
History
Swiss Cacao Traders in Bahia, 1910-1945 (PhD Thesis)
Approved amount: -
Funding scheme: -
Schmitz Michael // Schär Bernhard C.
Status: Ongoing
Start: 01.12.2025
End: 30.11.2030
History
Swiss Cacao Traders in Bahia, 1910-1945 (PhD Thesis)
Schmitz Michael // Schär Bernhard C.
Approved amount:-
Funding scheme: -
Status: Ongoing
Start: 01.12.2025
End: 30.11.2030
History
UseGenAI: a tool for transparent use of GenAI in learning and assessment
Approved amount: -
Funding scheme: UniDistance Suisse | FernUni Schweiz
Jullien Jean-Michel // Carbonel Henrietta // Shylo Uliana // Gaillard Frédéric // Belardi Angelo
Status: Ongoing
Start: 01.07.2025
End: 01.07.2026
EDUDL+
UseGenAI: a tool for transparent use of GenAI in learning and assessment
Jullien Jean-Michel // Carbonel Henrietta // Shylo Uliana // Gaillard Frédéric // Belardi Angelo
Approved amount:-
Funding scheme: UniDistance Suisse | FernUni Schweiz
Status: Ongoing
Start: 01.07.2025
End: 01.07.2026
EDUDL+
Raconter l’histoire des enfants placés en Suisse (1800-2000)
Approved amount: -
Funding scheme: -
Müller Aurore
Status: Ongoing
Start: 01.01.2024
End: 31.12.2028
History
Raconter l’histoire des enfants placés en Suisse (1800-2000)
Müller Aurore
Approved amount:-
Funding scheme: -
Status: Ongoing
Start: 01.01.2024
End: 31.12.2028
History
Körper vermessen. Entstehung und Entwicklung der «Rassen»-Anthropologie im 19. Jahrhundert
Approved amount: -
Funding scheme: -
Küsterling Sophie // Späti Christina
Status: Ongoing
Start: 01.04.2022
End: 31.07.2027
History
Körper vermessen. Entstehung und Entwicklung der «Rassen»-Anthropologie im 19. Jahrhundert
Küsterling Sophie // Späti Christina
Approved amount:-
Funding scheme: -
Status: Ongoing
Start: 01.04.2022
End: 31.07.2027
History
Affective mechanisms of reward processing underlying food intake and sedentariness
Approved amount: -
Funding scheme: -
Coppin Géraldine
Start: 01.09.2026
Psychology
Affective mechanisms of reward processing underlying food intake and sedentariness
Coppin Géraldine
Approved amount:-
Funding scheme: -
Start: 01.09.2026
Psychology
Transnational Swiss Financial Networks between 1770 and 1860 (PhD Thesis)
Approved amount: -
Funding scheme: -
Wildbolz-Gallego Raul // Pitteloud Sabine
Status: Ongoing
Start: 01.02.2024
End: 31.01.2029
History
Transnational Swiss Financial Networks between 1770 and 1860 (PhD Thesis)
Wildbolz-Gallego Raul // Pitteloud Sabine
Approved amount:-
Funding scheme: -
Status: Ongoing
Start: 01.02.2024
End: 31.01.2029
History
Exploring the interplay of daily demands and future intentions
Approved amount: -
Funding scheme: -
Haas Maximilian // Martarelli Corinna
Status: Completed
Start: 01.11.2023
End: 31.12.2025
Psychology
Exploring the interplay of daily demands and future intentions
Haas Maximilian // Martarelli Corinna
Approved amount:-
Funding scheme: -
Status: Completed
Start: 01.11.2023
End: 31.12.2025
Psychology
Developing socio-emotional competences through our games: A pedagogical innovation in collaboration with the HEP-VS
Approved amount: -
Funding scheme: -
Samson Andrea // Zaharia Alexandra // Moreno Laura // Savary Valentine
Status: Completed
Start: 01.01.2025
End: 31.03.2026
Psychology
Developing socio-emotional competences through our games: A pedagogical innovation in collaboration with the HEP-VS
Samson Andrea // Zaharia Alexandra // Moreno Laura // Savary Valentine //
Approved amount:-
Funding scheme: -
Status: Completed
Start: 01.01.2025
End: 31.03.2026
Psychology
Does Environment Matter? Conversational AI-based avatars in immersive and low-immersive virtual reality
Approved amount: -
Funding scheme: -
Rotheichner Laura // Martarelli Corinna
Status: Completed
Start: 01.01.2024
End: 31.12.2025
Psychology
Does Environment Matter? Conversational AI-based avatars in immersive and low-immersive virtual reality
Rotheichner Laura // Martarelli Corinna
Approved amount:-
Funding scheme: -
Status: Completed
Start: 01.01.2024
End: 31.12.2025
Psychology
Steepness
Approved amount: -
Funding scheme: -
Class Barbara // Carbonel Henrietta // Jullien Jean-Michel
Status: Ongoing
Start: 01.01.2025
End: 31.12.2026
EDUDL+
Steepness
Class Barbara // Carbonel Henrietta // Jullien Jean-Michel
Approved amount:-
Funding scheme: -
Status: Ongoing
Start: 01.01.2025
End: 31.12.2026
EDUDL+
ADMIT
Approved amount: -
Funding scheme: -
Jullien Jean-Michel // Carbonel Henrietta // Belardi Angelo // Gaillard Frédéric
Status: Ongoing
Start: 01.01.2024
End: 31.12.2026
EDUDL+
ADMIT
Jullien Jean-Michel // Carbonel Henrietta // Belardi Angelo // Gaillard Frédéric
Approved amount:-
Funding scheme: -
Status: Ongoing
Start: 01.01.2024
End: 31.12.2026
EDUDL+
Critical AI Literacy for Learning
Approved amount: -
Funding scheme: -
Carbonel Henrietta // Jullien Jean-Michel // Baillifard Ambroise // Bonvin Mélanie
Status: Ongoing
Start: 01.09.2024
End: 31.08.2026
EDUDL+
Critical AI Literacy for Learning
Carbonel Henrietta // Jullien Jean-Michel // Baillifard Ambroise // Bonvin Mélanie
Approved amount:-
Funding scheme: -
Status: Ongoing
Start: 01.09.2024
End: 31.08.2026
EDUDL+
Workload and learning behaviour of distance learning students
Approved amount: -
Funding scheme: -
Belardi Angelo // Reber Thomas // Rothen Nicolas // Martarelli Corinna
Status: Completed
Start: 01.01.2023
End: 31.12.2025
EDUDL+
Psychology
Workload and learning behaviour of distance learning students
Belardi Angelo // Reber Thomas // Rothen Nicolas // Martarelli Corinna
Approved amount:-
Funding scheme: -
Status: Completed
Start: 01.01.2023
End: 31.12.2025
EDUDL+
Psychology
(Re)imagining online assessments
Approved amount: -
Funding scheme: -
Carbonel Henrietta // Jullien Jean-Michel
Status: Completed
Start: 01.05.2023
End: 31.05.2024
EDUDL+
(Re)imagining online assessments
Carbonel Henrietta // Jullien Jean-Michel
Approved amount:-
Funding scheme: -
Status: Completed
Start: 01.05.2023
End: 31.05.2024
EDUDL+