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. They also discuss science and research: cooperation between universities of the two countries and Vietnamese university reform […]
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. The CSCS researchers, he says, will not […]
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. He salutes their role in music education for young people, three weeks before the vote on the […]
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. In 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 […]
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. He cites the OECD reports on the Russian and Swiss health systems and argues for cooperation on chronic diseases and ageing. Three […]
Alain Berset opens the Swiss Taste Week. He recalls that until recently he himself championed the recognition of regional products. Taste, 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. Speeches on […]
In Berne, Alain Berset and the Chinese Vice-Minister of Education, Du Zhanyuan, sign a memorandum on cooperation in higher education. The 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 […]
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. He speaks of his joy at having […]
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. He answers those who would like Swissmedic simply to adopt foreign decisions: those voices fall silent as soon as a scandal breaks. Mediator had disappeared […]
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”. He makes the scholar a kind of “Weltenbürger” before the term existed, one who thought beyond his own garden. Since 1987, around three […]
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 […]
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. The minister then visits the proton therapy centre of the Paul Scherrer Institute in Villigen. On the Saturday, the two ministers go on an excursion […]
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