Starmind Blog

On January 16, 2011, Starmind and Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) signed a collaboration contract, making the ZHAW the first university of applied sciences to join the Starmind network.

The ZHAW is one of the largest and most productive universities of applied sciences in Switzerland with about 9000 students enrolled in a total of 24 Bachelor’s degree programmes and 11 consecutive Master’s programmes.

Heinrich Stülpnagel and Pascal Kaufmann after the signing of the contract in Zurich

Starmind, as exclusive marketplace for know-how and solutions, is only accessible by invitation or to members of partner organizations. This contract allows all students and employees of the ZHAW, identified by a ZHAW email address, to directly access Starmind. Through innovative know-how exchange mechanisms on Starmind, ZHAW students can obtain creative solutions to posted challenges and apply their knowledge to solve practical problems, fully compliant with the ZHAW philosophy of close connection to everyday working practice.

The Starmind team looks forward to successfully cooperating with the Zurich University of Applied Sciences and wishes all ZHAW students fun exchanging know-how!

We would like to invite you to a presentation by Starmind CEO Pascal Kaufmann on Monday, January 17, 2011 at the Zurich College of Technology.

The topic of the presentation on eSociety and Crowdsourcing is the “Future of global Know-How trading”, a highly topical and exciting subject. As CEO of Starmind, Pascal Kaufmann will talk about his experience and express his opinion on this topic.

Global know-how trading with Starmind: The Starmind network

The event will take place at 1.15pm in room 252 of the Technopark premises of the College of Technology. The exact address is: Lagerstrasse 41, 8021 Zürich.

Please find here the site plan of the location.

Everyone is welcome to attend this presentation with following discussion. Please sign up by sending an email to hsz@starmind.com

We would be happy to welcome you at this unique presentation.

On Saturday, January 8, 2011, Pascale Bruderer, Member of the Swiss National Council and Starmind supporter, was awarded one of the most prestigious prizes of Switzerland: The SwissAward.

The SwissAward is given to outstanding Swiss individuals who made a positive impression in the past year for their achievements, courage, innovation or creativity. It is awarded in the categories economy, society, culture, politics and show. From 15 Swiss people who are nominated in each category, the winner is chosen by a jury of 100 personalities.

Pascale Bruderer, who stands for a new generation of politicians and connects elders and youth, won the award in the category politics, making her Switzerland’s politician of the year 2010. “I have always tried to bridge the gap between politics and the people”, Pascale Bruderer stated after receiving the SwissAward.

We congratulate Pascale Bruderer to this award and her achievements in the past year.

The new Starmind office

We are very happy to announce that on January 7, 2011, our new Starmind headquarter located in the center of Zurich was officially inaugurated.

The address of our new office is: Brandschenkestrasse 33, 8002 Zurich, Switzerland. Our new telephone number: +41 55 511 50 40.

After several weeks of hands-on team work, building and decorating the premises, the relocation of our new Starmind headquarter in the centre of Zurich could successfully be completed.

We would like to thank everyone who helped moving-in and building up the Starmind headquarter and are looking forward to developing and expanding Starmind further.

See below some pictures of the building:

Starmind office premises before move-in

Building new walls in the Starmind office

Robin and Pascal putting up a new wall in the Starmind office

Marc installing the Starmind logo onto the new office walls

In the november issue from 2010, the Alumni journal of Basel University published an article on the newly signed collaboration agreement between Starmind and alumniBasel, the alumni association of University of Basel.

AlumniBasel was founded in the year 2005 and is the university orientated and professional alumni association of Basel University.

Please find here the novembner issue featuring the Starmind article : Problemlösungsplattform Starmind – jetzt für Mitglieder von AlumniBasel zugänglich