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SSOM promotes the technical sciences in Switzerland, notably in the fields of optics, microscopy and nanotechnology. It represents its members to the outside world, exchanges experience, fosters national and international cooperation and provides specialist knowledge.

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Science in the parliament

Horizons No. 135

How do scientific findings reach politicians and influence their arguments and decisions?

Horizons No. 135
  • Persistence in the political jungle
  • How scientific findings can lead to a recommendation from the Federal Council
  • Science changes opinions
  • When science makes politics and vice versa
  • Where the strands of knowledge come together

  • Pictures of power, drawn with delicate strokes

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  • Politics
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