Running projects

The SwissCollNet projects are launched!

SwissCollNet has terminated the evaluation of a two rounds of project submissions. 68 projects are financially supported, of which 41 are based on cooperation between the collection institutions and in most cases institutions from several cantons are working together.

The projects, which last up to two years, cover a wide range of thematically diverse collections from botany, mycology and zoology to palaeontology, geology or anthropology. Most of the objects in the collections are from Switzerland.

The focus lays partially on conditioning of collections, following defined standards to prepare the specimens for digitisation. Considerable effort will be made to digitise the collections and make them publicly accessible. Digitised, the collections provide unique data for climate, biodiversity and landscape research as well as for environmental authorities and educational institutions. A further goal is to promote training for collection management and taxonomic expertise.