Sustainability in Practice

We collaborate with leading scholars and various players in the public and private sectors to bring sustainability to life in basic research, applied research, or knowledge transfer projects.

Scaling Smart City Projects - From Individual Pilots towards a Common Strategy of Industry Emergence

SPICE

Exploring how Smart City initiatives can be scaled effectively, this project addresses key challenges in city-wide implementation from business-model perspective.

IDG St. Gallen Hub

System Change Foundation Fellowship

SIL is the official partner of the System Change Foundation, leading a group of student-fellows in the process of co-shaping the World Systemic Forum 2025 - an annual event gathering some of the most influential minds to collaborate on the potential for future ways of living and catalyse system change!

SWEET CoSi Partner Finder

Exploring the potential of the Metaverse with Siemens

Siemens

Together with our industry partner Siemens, we explore the potential of the Metaverse.

CoSi project: Link between Energy and Societal Evolution in Switzerland

CoSi

The goal of CoSi (Co-Evolution and Coordinated Simulation of the Swiss Energy System and Swiss Society) is to explore the interactions between political, regulatory and societal frameworks and the evolution of the energy system. This transdisciplinary expertise from the natural sciences, engineering, economics, social sciences and the humanities will be incorporated into simulation models and enable more meaningful scenario analyses to successfully shape the energy transition.

Sustainable Mobility Solutions for Rural Switzerland

The SUSMOBTOGG project (2021-2024) focuses on identifying sustainable mobility concepts for rural areas in Switzerland across six work packages. Toggenburg serves as a case study here.

Accelerate Positive Clean Energy Districts

ASCEND

ASCEND The EU-funded project ASCEND seeks to speed up and scale the implementation of positive, clean energy districts (PCED) across Europe. For this, we will jointly realize solutions and business models in fields ranging from energy communities to mobility and energy-efficient buildings in eight European cities.