Les académies publient le plan d'action CoARA

Industrial sectors such as organic chemistry are structurally dependent on carbon and are therefore still largely fossil-based. Biotechnological processes could offer a decisive solution here. They enable the direct utilisation of captured CO₂ as a raw material and thus pave the way for circular chemistry. At the third SATW forum on defossilisation, around 30 experts discussed how far these technologies have already been developed and what is still needed to make them a reality.

On 9 April 1981, the nine specialist societies unanimously agreed to adopt the association's statutes in the Federal Palace in Bern, laying the foundation stone for the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences SATW. 45 years later, the organisation is what its founders had hoped it would be: an independent, active player at the interface between technology, science and society.