Cicor Closes Challenging 2020 with Solid Result
Cicor, a leading international technology company in the fields of printed circuit boards and hybrid circuits, printed electronics, microelectronics as well as EMS (Electronic Manufacturing Services), based in Boudry (Switzerland), reported a sales decrease of 15.4 percent year-on-year to CHF 214.9 million in 2020 (2019: CHF 253.9 million), due to the ordering behavior of selected major customers during the COVID 19 pandemic, which is at the upper end of guidance due to a pick-up in business towards the end of the year. In local currencies, the decrease in sales amounted to 11.9 percent. With an order intake of CHF 216.0 million (2019: CHF 208.9 million), the previous year was exceeded by 3.4 % and a positive book-to-bill ratio of 1.01 was achieved.
Robots in schools: new teaching methods on the horizon?
The pandemic is forcing us to rethink everything, even how we teach. What if robots are the future of education?
This content was published on March 1, 2021 - 15:39
March 1, 2021 - 15:39
Sara Ibrahim
Writes about the impact of new technologies on society: are we aware of the revolution in progress and its consequences? Hobby: free thinking. Habit: asking too many questions.
Thymio, Lexi, Elias, Pepper, Nao, Anastasia, Kaspar: they could be your child s new classmates. They are diligent but not competitive, they know a lot but are not arrogant, they learn from others while helping them to learn. But instead of being flesh-and-blood children, they have a metal heart and an electronic brain. They are robots and are mainly used in education and schools.
Federal bilateral programmes for cooperation in research and innovation with non-European partner countries 2021â2024 State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation Bern, 25.02.2021 - The Dispatch on the Promotion of Education, Research and Innovation for the years 2021â2024 provides for a continuation of the bilateral cooperation programmes with non-European partner countries launched in 2008. An international assessment conducted in 2020 confirmed that these programmes play an important role in the diversification of international research collaborations and result in a significant increase in the number of scientific co-publications by Swiss and non-European partners. The funding instrument has now been confirmed for another four years and performance agreements signed with five Leading Houses.