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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20121114
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20121115
DTSTAMP:20261020T172909Z
CREATED:20261016T004308Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T172909Z
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SUMMARY:HIV/AIDS\, migration and discrimination
DESCRIPTION:At the event organised by the SDC and the Swiss AIDS Federation\, Alain Berset first says what Switzerland can be proud of: 25 years of the STOP AIDS campaign\, now LOVE LIFE\, and the harm reduction of the four-pillar policy\, developed under Ruth Dreifuss. \nThen the problems that remain\, including discrimination. For\, as he reminds his audience\, “humanity cannot be divided!” \nSpeeches on this site \n\nVIH/sida : « L’humanité n’est pas divisible » (in German\, French-language page)
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/hiv-aids-migration-and-discrimination/
LOCATION:Zurich
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20121113
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20121114
DTSTAMP:20261020T172909Z
CREATED:20261016T004304Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T172909Z
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SUMMARY:40 years of the World Heritage Convention
DESCRIPTION:At the Dampfzentrale\, Switzerland celebrates 40 years of the UNESCO Convention concerning the Protection of the World Heritage. The Swiss Commission for UNESCO presents the first book devoted to all the Swiss sites on the list. \nAlain Berset opens with Malraux: “The future is a present given to us by the past.” He recalls the commitment Switzerland made by ratifying the Convention in 1975; as a member of the World Heritage Committee\, it emphasises the conservation of sites over new inscriptions. \nSpeeches on this site \n\n40 ans de la Convention du Patrimoine mondial (French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFederal Council\, press release of 14.11.2012
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/40-years-of-the-world-heritage-convention/
LOCATION:Berne
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20121113
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20121114
DTSTAMP:20261020T172908Z
CREATED:20261016T004300Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T172908Z
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SUMMARY:National Palliative Care Congress
DESCRIPTION:Alain Berset opens the National Palliative Care Congress. “There are three things that concern every human being on this planet\, whether pastry chefs\, cosmonauts or Federal Councillors: being born\, living and dying.” \nWe prepare for birth\, not for death. He calls for end of life to be given more attention again\, in society as in the health system. The national palliative care strategy has just been extended. \nSpeeches on this site \n\nCongrès national des soins palliatifs (French-language page)
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/national-palliative-care-congress/
LOCATION:Bienne
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20121112
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20121113
DTSTAMP:20261020T172908Z
CREATED:20261016T004257Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T172908Z
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SUMMARY:SwissnexDay: brain circulation
DESCRIPTION:The annual conference of the swissnex science consulates is devoted to “brain circulation”. Alain Berset quotes Kissinger: “there is nothing more international than science”. 35% of scientific articles are the result of international cooperation. \nHalf of the teaching staff at Swiss universities come from abroad. He defends openness to people\, ideas and goods as the foundation of prosperity\, and the role of the swissnex offices in Boston\, San Francisco\, Singapore\, Shanghai and Bangalore. \nSpeeches on this site \n\nSwissnexDay (French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFederal Council\, speech of 12.11.2012\nFederal Council\, press release of 09.11.2012
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/swissnexday-brain-circulation/
LOCATION:Berne
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20121109
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20121110
DTSTAMP:20261020T172908Z
CREATED:20261016T004253Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T172908Z
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SUMMARY:Working visit to Paris to Health Minister Marisol Touraine
DESCRIPTION:Alain Berset travels to Paris for a working visit to Marisol Touraine\, French Minister of Social Affairs and Health. He is accompanied by the Director of the FOPH. \nAfter the meeting at the ministry\, the Swiss Embassy organises a small-group meeting at the residence. \nFriday 9 November 2012 — Paris\n\nMeeting with Marisol Touraine at the Ministry of Health\nMeeting at the residence of the Swiss Ambassador
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/working-visit-to-paris-to-health-minister-marisol-touraine/
LOCATION:Paris
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20121105
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20121107
DTSTAMP:20261020T172907Z
CREATED:20261016T004251Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T172907Z
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SUMMARY:Admission of doctors and National Health Policy
DESCRIPTION:On 5 November\, at a conference in Berne\, Alain Berset concludes the consultation on reintroducing\, for three years\, the restriction on the admission of doctors. Since the freeze was lifted at the beginning of the year\, applications for billing numbers have risen sharply. Dispatch to Parliament planned for the 2013 spring session. \nThe next day\, at the Zentrum Paul Klee\, he opens the 14th Working Conference of the National Health Policy\, devoted to “outpatient care for the future”. The no to managed care has not buried integrated care\, he says; he welcomes the cantons’ support for the needs clause. \nSpeeches on this site \n\nPolitique nationale de la santé : les soins ambulatoires (French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFederal Council\, press release of 05.11.2012
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/admission-of-doctors-and-national-health-policy/
LOCATION:Berne
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20121102
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20121103
DTSTAMP:20261020T172907Z
CREATED:20261016T004247Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T172907Z
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SUMMARY:Opening of Bédémania
DESCRIPTION:In the evening\, Alain Berset opens Bédémania\, the comics festival of Belfaux\, his village. He has been coming “for years”\, but speaks there for the first time as a Federal Councillor. \nComics\, he says\, achieve “the feat of saying a lot in few words. A feat that not many politicians have mastered!” He cites Spiegelman and Maus\, Chappatte on Syria\, and Cosey: “in a comic there is a story\, you don’t need to take three aspirins to understand it”. \nSpeeches on this site \n\nBédémania (French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFederal Council\, speech of 02.11.2012
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/opening-of-bedemania/
LOCATION:Belfaux
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20121102
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20121103
DTSTAMP:20261020T172907Z
CREATED:20261016T004243Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T172907Z
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SUMMARY:Opening of the Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences
DESCRIPTION:Alain Berset opens the Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences\, near EPFL. He recalls that two thirds of Swiss research is privately funded\, nearly twelve billion francs in 2008. \nHe stands by the closeness between the Federal Institutes of Technology and companies\, contested in Parliament\, while acknowledging the questions it raises. \nSpeeches on this site \n\nNestlé Institute of Health Sciences (French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFederal Council\, speech of 02.11.2012
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/opening-of-the-nestle-institute-of-health-sciences/
LOCATION:Lausanne
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20121031
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20121101
DTSTAMP:20261020T172906Z
CREATED:20261016T004240Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T172906Z
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SUMMARY:Swiss Goûts et Terroirs fair
DESCRIPTION:Alain Berset speaks at the Swiss Goûts et Terroirs fair in Bulle. “Terroir naturally marks a sense of belonging. But taste sets people apart even more\, for taste is a private matter.” \nHe lets slip that he has “some – rare – disagreement” with the fair’s president\, on public health issues linked to products “so delicately intoxicating”. Then he talks about the emblem of the Bénichon: the cuchaule and its mustard. \nSpeeches on this site \n\nGoûts et Terroirs (French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFederal Council\, speech of 31.10.2012
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/swiss-gouts-et-terroirs-fair/
LOCATION:Bulle
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20121030
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20121031
DTSTAMP:20261020T172906Z
CREATED:20261016T004236Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T172906Z
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SUMMARY:Capital Region Switzerland Forum
DESCRIPTION:At the forum of the Capital Region Switzerland\, Alain Berset pokes fun at the caution of the Mittelland: the Solothurn “S’isch immer so gsi”\, the Bernese “Nume nid gsprängt”\, the historian Fritz René Allemann’s mistrust of “Gstürm”. \nAnd yet\, a vision. He defends it against the suspicion of naivety: Switzerland has also known phases of historical acceleration\, from 1848 to the nuclear phase-out. That Berne was not classified as a metropolitan region was\, in his view\, a stroke of luck: it forced the five cantons to cooperate. “Die Hauptstadtregion ist eine realistische Vision.” \nSpeeches on this site \n\nRégion capitale Suisse (in German\, French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFederal Council\, speech of 30.10.2012
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/capital-region-switzerland-forum/
LOCATION:Berne
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20121029
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20121030
DTSTAMP:20261020T172906Z
CREATED:20261016T004233Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T172906Z
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SUMMARY:First extraordinary congress of the World Meteorological Organization
DESCRIPTION:With WMO President David Grimes and Secretary-General Michel Jarraud\, Alain Berset opens in Geneva the organisation’s first extraordinary congress in 62 years. MeteoSwiss then comes under the FDHA. \nThe congress is to adopt the implementation plan of the Global Framework for Climate Services\, without waiting for the ordinary congress of 2015. A subject that is “hot in every sense of the word”\, he says. \nSpeeches on this site \n\nCongrès de l’Organisation météorologique mondiale (French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFederal Council\, press release of 29.10.2012\nFederal Council\, speech of 29.10.2012
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/first-extraordinary-congress-of-the-world-meteorological-organization/
LOCATION:Genève
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20121025
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20121026
DTSTAMP:20261020T172906Z
CREATED:20261016T004229Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T172906Z
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SUMMARY:Swiss Design Awards
DESCRIPTION:At the Museum Bellerive\, Alain Berset presents the Swiss Design Awards for the first time\, including three “Grand Prix Design”: Franco Clivio\, the studio Gavillet & Rust and Karl Gerstner. \nHe speaks of an “Aladdin’s cave” and defends the Confederation’s model for promoting design\, a field in which\, unlike others\, cities and cantons are little involved. \nSpeeches on this site \n\nPrix fédéraux de design (French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFederal Office of Culture\, press release of 24.10.2012\nFederal Council\, speech of 25.10.2012
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/swiss-design-awards/
LOCATION:Zurich
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20121012
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20121014
DTSTAMP:20261020T172905Z
CREATED:20261016T004225Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T172905Z
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SUMMARY:Visit of German Health Minister Daniel Bahr
DESCRIPTION:At his invitation\, Alain Berset receives the German Health Minister\, Daniel Bahr\, in Berne. The working session and the meal focus on the health reforms under way in both countries. \nThe minister then visits the proton therapy centre of the Paul Scherrer Institute in Villigen. On the Saturday\, the two ministers go on an excursion in the canton of Fribourg. \nSources \n\nFederal Council\, press release of 11.10.2012
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/visit-of-german-health-minister-daniel-bahr/
LOCATION:Berne\, Villigen\, Fribourg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20121001
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20121004
DTSTAMP:20261020T172905Z
CREATED:20261016T004222Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T172905Z
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SUMMARY:Working visit to India
DESCRIPTION:Three days in New Delhi\, one theme per day. On 1 October\, health: with Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad\, Alain Berset agrees on a memorandum of understanding (universal coverage\, non-communicable diseases\, medicines\, complementary medicine)\, to be signed at the 2013 World Health Assembly. He also sees the Minister of Culture\, Kumari Selja\, and presents Swiss foreign health policy at the Public Health Foundation of India. \nOn 2 October\, culture\, with Pro Helvetia. On the 3rd\, science: with Minister Vayalar Ravi\, he signs a joint declaration on scientific cooperation for 2013–2016 and opens the joint committee of the Indo-Swiss research programme\, extended to renewable energy and biomedicine. \nMonday 1 October 2012 — New Delhi\n\nMeeting with Ghulam Nabi Azad\, Minister of Health and Family Welfare\nVisit to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)\nMeeting with Kumari Selja\, Minister of Culture\nSpeech at the Public Health Foundation of India\nReception at the ambassador’s residence\n\nTuesday 2 October 2012 — New Delhi\n\nMeeting with the Pro Helvetia liaison office and artists in residence\nVisit to Humayun’s Tomb with the Aga Khan Trust for Culture\nVisit to the Sanskriti Foundation\n\nWednesday 3 October 2012 — New Delhi\n\nMeeting with Vayalar Ravi\, Minister of Science and Technology\, and signing of a joint declaration\nOpening of the joint committee of the Indo-Swiss research programme\nVisit to the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi\nVisit to the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology\nMeeting with the Swiss media\nWorking dinner with Indian figures\n\nSources \n\nFederal Council\, press release of 01.10.2012\nFederal Council\, press release of 03.10.2012\nFederal Council\, press release of 27.09.2012
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/working-visit-to-india/
LOCATION:New Delhi
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120927
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120928
DTSTAMP:20261020T172905Z
CREATED:20261016T004220Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T172905Z
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SUMMARY:25 years of the Erasmus programme
DESCRIPTION:Alain Berset celebrates 25 years of the European Erasmus programme\, in which Switzerland is then a partner. He places it under the motto of Erasmus: “Die ganze Welt ist ein gemeinsames Vaterland”. \nHe makes the scholar a kind of “Weltenbürger” before the term existed\, one who thought beyond his own garden. Since 1987\, around three million young Europeans have studied abroad thanks to the programme. \nSpeeches on this site \n\n25 ans Erasmus (French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFederal Council\, speech of 27.09.2012
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/25-years-of-the-erasmus-programme/
LOCATION:Berne
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120920
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120921
DTSTAMP:20261020T172904Z
CREATED:20261016T004216Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T172904Z
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SUMMARY:10 years of Swissmedic
DESCRIPTION:Alain Berset congratulates Swissmedic on its tenth anniversary. He recalls that the control of medicines is much older: in 1900\, Switzerland was one of the first countries to regulate it. \nHe answers those who would like Swissmedic simply to adopt foreign decisions: those voices fall silent as soon as a scandal breaks. Mediator had disappeared from the Swiss market as early as 1998\, on evidence of serious side effects. The Swiss authority must also be able to authorise innovative medicines on its own\, sometimes as the first in the world. \nSpeeches on this site \n\n10 ans Swissmedic (in German\, French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFederal Council\, speech of 20.09.2012
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/10-years-of-swissmedic/
LOCATION:Interlaken
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120918
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120919
DTSTAMP:20261020T172904Z
CREATED:20261016T004212Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T172904Z
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SUMMARY:Association of Former Members of the Federal Assembly
DESCRIPTION:Alain Berset addresses former federal parliamentarians\, as a former member of the Council of States and as a member of the government. He describes how quickly he left Parliament: the announcement of the result on 14 December shortly before noon\, the swearing-in\, then sixteen days before taking office. \nHe speaks of his joy at having taken over the FDHA\, “ein äusserst vielfältiges Departement”\, and talks about it with humour. \nSpeeches on this site \n\nAssociation des anciens membres de l’Assemblée fédérale (in German\, French-language page)
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/association-of-former-members-of-the-federal-assembly/
LOCATION:Berne
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120914
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120915
DTSTAMP:20261020T172903Z
CREATED:20261016T004209Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T172903Z
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SUMMARY:Memorandum with China on higher education
DESCRIPTION:In Berne\, Alain Berset and the Chinese Vice-Minister of Education\, Du Zhanyuan\, sign a memorandum on cooperation in higher education. \nThe text raises to 25 a year the maximum number of exchange scholarships for young researchers\, provides for the waiving of tuition fees for up to 30 advanced students\, and involves the Chinese ministry in the Sino-Swiss science cooperation programme launched in 2008. \nSources \n\nFederal Council\, press release of 14.09.2012
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/memorandum-with-china-on-higher-education/
LOCATION:Berne
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120912
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120913
DTSTAMP:20261020T172903Z
CREATED:20261016T004205Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T172903Z
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SUMMARY:Opening of the Swiss Taste Week
DESCRIPTION:Alain Berset opens the Swiss Taste Week. He recalls that until recently he himself championed the recognition of regional products. \nTaste\, he says\, is a chain that begins with the farmer: without good produce\, no great cooking. “Global kochen\, lokal essen”. The speech shares two paragraphs with the one at Goûts et Terroirs. \nSpeeches on this site \n\nOuverture de la Semaine suisse du Goût (French-language page)
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/opening-of-the-swiss-taste-week/
LOCATION:Berne
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120910
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120911
DTSTAMP:20261020T172903Z
CREATED:20261016T004202Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T172903Z
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SUMMARY:Swiss Russian Health Forum
DESCRIPTION:In Basel\, Alain Berset opens the second Swiss Russian Health Forum\, after a first edition in Moscow in October 2011. He recalls the Bernoullis and Euler\, Basel scholars who went to St Petersburg. \nHe cites the OECD reports on the Russian and Swiss health systems and argues for cooperation on chronic diseases and ageing. Three months later\, he is in Moscow. \nSpeeches on this site \n\nSwiss Russian Health Forum\n\nSources \n\nFederal Council\, speech of 10.09.2012
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/swiss-russian-health-forum-2/
LOCATION:Bâle
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120907
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120908
DTSTAMP:20261020T172903Z
CREATED:20261016T004158Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T172903Z
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SUMMARY:London Paralympic Games
DESCRIPTION:Alain Berset attends the London Paralympic Games: road cycling at the Brands Hatch circuit\, then athletics at the Olympic Stadium. He presents medals in two disciplines. \nIn between\, he meets the Swiss Paralympic delegation in the Swiss supporters’ area. For the FDHA\, which is responsible for equality for people with disabilities\, the Games are also a message of inclusion. \nFriday 7 September 2012 — London\n\nCycling events at Brands Hatch and medal ceremony\nMeeting with the Swiss Paralympic delegation\nAthletics events at the Olympic Stadium and medal ceremony\n\nSources \n\nFederal Council\, press release of 05.09.2012
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/london-paralympic-games/
LOCATION:Londres
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120901
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120902
DTSTAMP:20261020T172902Z
CREATED:20261016T004155Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T172902Z
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SUMMARY:150 years of the Swiss Band Association
DESCRIPTION:Alain Berset speaks at the ceremony marking the 150th anniversary of the Swiss Band Association in Aarau. He links the date to that of the federal state: music societies have grown at the same pace as modern Switzerland. \nHe salutes their role in music education for young people\, three weeks before the vote on the constitutional article. \nSpeeches on this site \n\n150 ans de l’Association suisse des musiques (in German\, French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFederal Council\, speech of 01.09.2012
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/150-years-of-the-swiss-band-association/
LOCATION:Aarau
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120831
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120901
DTSTAMP:20261020T172902Z
CREATED:20261016T004151Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T172902Z
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SUMMARY:Opening of the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS)
DESCRIPTION:Alain Berset opens the new building of the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre in Lugano. He opens with Deep Blue\, the first computer to beat a world chess champion\, and with “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”\, in which a computer answers “42” to the great question of life. \nThe CSCS researchers\, he says\, will not need 7.5 million years of computing: the supercomputer will serve research across the whole country. \nSpeeches on this site \n\nCSCS – Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFederal Council\, speech of 31.08.2012
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/opening-of-the-swiss-national-supercomputing-centre-cscs/
LOCATION:Lugano
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120830
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120831
DTSTAMP:20261020T172902Z
CREATED:20261016T004147Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T172902Z
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SUMMARY:Visit of Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan
DESCRIPTION:At Alain Berset’s invitation\, the Deputy Prime Minister of Vietnam\, Nguyen Thien Nhan\, is received in Berne. The meeting and the lunch focus on the challenges facing the two health systems\, with presentations by the FOPH and Swissmedic. \nThey also discuss science and research: cooperation between universities of the two countries and Vietnamese university reform (Higher Education Reform Agenda 2006–2020). The visitor then meets Johann Schneider-Ammann. \nSources \n\nFederal Council\, press release of 30.08.2012
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/visit-of-vietnamese-deputy-prime-minister-nguyen-thien-nhan/
LOCATION:Berne
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120827
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120828
DTSTAMP:20261020T172901Z
CREATED:20261016T004144Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T172901Z
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SUMMARY:13th Venice Architecture Biennale
DESCRIPTION:Alain Berset opens the Swiss Pavilion at the Architecture Biennale\, devoted to the architect Miroslav Šik and his exhibition “And Now the Ensemble!!!”. He also visits other pavilions with Pro Helvetia. \nOn the sidelines\, he meets the French Minister of Culture\, Aurélie Filippetti. The two ministers agree to intensify Franco-Swiss cultural cooperation and discuss copyright at a time when works are distributed on the internet. \nMonday 27 August 2012 — Venice\n\nWelcome at the Swiss Pavilion by Pro Helvetia and tour of the exhibition with Miroslav Šik\nVisit to the French Pavilion\nPro Helvetia reception at the Palazzo Trevisan\nOpening of the exhibition at the Swiss Pavilion: speech by Alain Berset\nVisit to the German Pavilion\nMeeting with Aurélie Filippetti\, French Minister of Culture and Communication\n\nSpeeches on this site \n\nBiennale d’architecture Venise\n\nSources \n\nFederal Council\, press release of 28.08.2012\nFederal Council\, speech of 27.08.2012
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/13th-venice-architecture-biennale/
LOCATION:Venise
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SUMMARY:Vote on music education for young people: campaign launch
DESCRIPTION:With Isabelle Chassot\, President of the Swiss Conference of Cantonal Ministers of Education\, Alain Berset launches the campaign for the federal decree on the promotion of music education for young people. The text\, a counter-proposal to the “youth + music” initiative\, which has been withdrawn\, anchors music in the Constitution. \nIt provides for national objectives for music teaching in schools and easier access to music-making outside school. On 23 September\, the people accept it by nearly 73%. The same day\, the initiative “Protection against passive smoking”\, which the Federal Council opposed\, is rejected by around two to one. \nSources \n\nFederal Council\, press release of 20.08.2012\nSwiss Parliament\, popular vote of 23.09.2012
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/vote-on-music-education-for-young-people-campaign-launch/
LOCATION:Berne
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120801
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120807
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SUMMARY:65th Locarno Film Festival
DESCRIPTION:On the evening of 1 August\, Alain Berset opens the 65th Locarno Film Festival in the cloister of the Scuola Magistrale\, in French and Italian. He quotes Hermann Hesse on Ticino and makes Locarno\, in August\, “la vera capitale culturale della Svizzera”. \nOn 3 August\, at a press conference with Jean-Frédéric Jauslin\, Director of the Federal Office of Culture\, and Ivo Kummer\, Head of the Film Section\, he sets out his line: the state provides the framework conditions\, without quotas; cultural policy must “aim for quality and artistic originality\, and reward success”. He argues for Switzerland’s participation in the European MEDIA programmes and announces new Swiss Dance Awards from 2013. In the evening\, at the Leopard Club\, he talks about financing culture\, between the state\, sponsors and crowdfunding. \nWednesday 1 August 2012 — Locarno\n\nMeeting with the festival management\nOpening speech of the festival\nNational Day speech on the Piazza Sant’Antonio\nOpening film on the Piazza Grande\n\nThursday 2 August 2012 — Locarno\n\nMeetings with the media\n\nFriday 3 August 2012 — Locarno\, Ascona\n\nPress conference on cultural and film policy\nLunch hosted by the festival at Monte Verità\nFederal Office of Culture aperitif\nAddress at the Leopard Club\n\nSaturday 4 August 2012 — Locarno\n\nMeeting with members of Parliament\, at the invitation of the Federal Office of Culture\n\nMonday 6 August 2012 — Locarno\n\nVisit to the session of the Federal Film Commission\n\nSpeeches on this site \n\nOuverture du 65e Festival du film de Locarno (French-language page)\nLocarno : conférence de presse sur la politique culturelle et du cinéma (French-language page)\nLeopard Club : encouragement public et sponsoring de la culture (French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFederal Council\, press release of 03.08.2012
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/65th-locarno-film-festival/
LOCATION:Locarno
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120731
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120802
DTSTAMP:20261020T172900Z
CREATED:20261016T004132Z
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SUMMARY:National Day in the three language regions
DESCRIPTION:For his first 1 August as a Federal Councillor\, Alain Berset speaks in the three main language regions: on the evening of 31 July in Middes\, in his own canton\, at midday on 1 August in Altdorf\, and in the evening in Locarno. The same speech\, in three languages: “Un pays à la fois solide et solidaire”\, “Stark und solidarisch mit den weniger Starken”\, “Forti e solidali con i meno forti”. \nHe opens with “a patriotism without pathos” and with the first 1 August speech\, given by Emil Welti in 1891. Since the end of the Cold War\, Switzerland can no longer define itself by what it is not. It must face up to Europe in crisis: “Das Schicksal Europas ist auch unser Schicksal.” \nTuesday 31 July 2012 — Middes\n\nNational Day speech\n\nWednesday 1 August 2012 — Altdorf\, Locarno\n\nWelcome by the mayor of Altdorf and midday speech\nEvening speech on the Piazza Sant’Antonio in Locarno\, after the opening of the Film Festival\n\nSpeeches on this site \n\nUn pays à la fois solide et solidaire (French-language page)\nStark und solidarisch mit den weniger Starken (in German\, French-language page)\nForti e solidali con i meno forti (in Italian\, French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFederal Council\, speech of 31.07.2012\nFederal Council\, speech of 01.08.2012 (Altdorf)\nFederal Council\, speech of 01.08.2012 (Locarno)
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/national-day-in-the-three-language-regions/
LOCATION:Middes\, Altdorf\, Locarno
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120629
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120630
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CREATED:20261016T004127Z
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SUMMARY:Visit of Margaret Chan\, Director-General of the WHO
DESCRIPTION:A month after her re-election\, Margaret Chan is received in Berne by Alain Berset for a working lunch. She also sees State Secretary Yves Rossier and visits the SDC. \nOn the agenda: the follow-up to the World Health Assembly\, non-communicable diseases\, research into medicines for diseases of developing countries\, and WHO reform. Switzerland then sits on the organisation’s Executive Board and draws on its foreign health policy\, adopted in March. \nSources \n\nFederal Council\, press release of 29.06.2012
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/visit-of-margaret-chan-director-general-of-the-who/
LOCATION:Berne
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120622
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120623
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SUMMARY:Employers’ Day
DESCRIPTION:Before the Swiss Employers’ Association\, Alain Berset opens with the end of the honeymoon: six months after taking office\, “der Moment\, in dem die Medien nervös zu werden beginnen”. He describes a “heimlicher Konsens”: political stability is Switzerland’s real asset. \nThen he defends the welfare state head-on before the employers. “Der Sozialstaat hat sich keinesfalls überlebt. Dem Sozialstaat gehört das 21. Jahrhundert.” \nSpeeches on this site \n\nDie Schweiz – viel mehr als ein Standort (in German\, French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFederal Council\, speech of 22.06.2012
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/employers-day/
LOCATION:Berne
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