Events

«LIVE with Swiss Humanitarian Aid: Humanitarian Challenges in the Shadow of Covid-19»

Thursday, 20.08.2020 – Thursday, 20.08.2020
web conference

LIVE with Swiss Humanitarian Aid: Humanitarian Challenges in the Shadow of Covid-19 20 August 2020, 13:30–15:00 (CET, Bern) ONLINE

Location: Online

Swiss launch of the UNESCO 2020 Global Education Monitoring Report

Tuesday, 23.06.2020 – Tuesday, 30.06.2020
web conference

The Swiss launch of the UNESCO Global Education Monitoring Report hosted by the SDC and its partners on 30 June 2020 will be an opportunity to explore the theme for 2020: inclusion in education. (With simultaneous translation FR / ENG / GER / IT)

Location: Online

Humanitarian Aid – no thanks? Where aid meets its limits

Friday, 27.03.2020 – Friday, 27.03.2020
Public event; Conference Assembly

Humanitäre Hilfe – nein danke? Wo Hilfe an Grenzen stösst Jahrestagung Humanitäre Hilfe und SKH Freitag, 27. März 2020, 13.30 Uhr

Location: Kultur und Kongresszentrum Trafo Baden, Brown Boveri Pl. 1, 5400 Baden

Conference Art at Risk – creative work in challenging contexts

Thursday, 27.02.2020 – Saturday, 29.02.2020
international conference

Conference Art at Risk – creative work in challenging contexts in Zurich, Feb.  27th to 29th 2020

Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur

Tuesday, 05.11.2019 – Sunday, 10.11.2019

SDC panel discussion: Swiss support for health reforms in cooperation with Eastern Europe

Friday, 04.10.2019 – Friday, 04.10.2019

SDC panel discussion Swiss support for health reforms in cooperation with Eastern Europe. What synergies and strengths can be drawn from the Swiss health system?

Location: Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana SUPSI, via Violino 11, Stabile Piazzetta, 6928 Manno

Zürcher Theater Spektakel

Thursday, 15.08.2019 – Sunday, 01.09.2019

The SDC supports the productions of artists from the South and from the East at the Zürcher Theater Spektakel.

Location: Zürich

72nd Locarno Film Festival

Wednesday, 07.08.2019 – Saturday, 17.08.2019
Cultural event; Public event

The SDC supports the Locarno Festival's Open Doors section, which every year spotlights a different part of the world where there are few opportunities for film-making and the promotion of culture.

Location: Locarno

70 years Switzerland – UNESCO

Monday, 17.06.2019 – Thursday, 20.06.2019
Conference Assembly

From the 17th to the 20th of June the Swiss Commission for UNESCO will celebrate the 70th anniversary of its creation and of Switzerland's adhesion to UNESCO on the Waisenhausplatz in Bern, with multiple conferences, expositions and networking.

Location: Bern, Waisenhausplatz

African Book Fair 2019

Wednesday, 01.05.2019 – Sunday, 05.05.2019
Public event

The African Book Fair 2019, which promotes authors and publishers from Africa, is supported by the SDC.

Location: Geneva

Exhibition "Displaced" – In the footsteps of refugees

Saturday, 06.04.2019 – Sunday, 05.01.2020
Public event; Cultural event

Every day we see images of people who fled their homeland, only to tragically lose their lives. But what does it mean to be forced to abandon your home, work, family and country? The exhibition "Displaced" allows visitors to put themselves in the shoes of refugees and to get some idea of what it is like to be forced to flee one's home.

Location: Historical and Ethnological Museum St. Gallen

Visions du Réel

Friday, 05.04.2019 – Saturday, 13.04.2019
Public event

The SDC supports the Visions du Réel international film festival, which seeks to give film-makers from the South and the East greater access to the Swiss public and the international film market.

Location: Nyon