Studierende bearbeiten in Projektteams Fragestellungen von Praxispartner:innen aus dem Agro-Food Bereich. Sie entwickeln wissenschaftlich fundierte, praxistaugliche Lösungsvorschläge und wenden dabei ihre im Studium sowie im Rahmen der Lehrveranstaltung erworbenen fachspezifischen, methodenspezifischen, sozialen und persönlichen Kompetenzen an.

This course is an introduction into forage cropping and grassland sciences. Topics include: extensive/intensive use, grassland evaluation, grassland maintenance and management using fertilization, grazing, cutting, etc. Relationships between site, vegetation composition and management will be explored.

This course focuses on the interactions of global change, ecosystem processes, land use practices, politics, and society. Impacts of global change on forests and agro-ecosystems that will strongly affect sustainable resource use across the 21st century and responsible and smart solutions are addressed.

This course focuses on grasslands globally and their respective properties. Spatial distribution, vegetation composition, soils, management and productivity as well as the impact of fire, invasion or over-exploitation will be discussed. The use of existing data sets will be one topic as well.

In the module "Integrative Plant Sciences", which consists of the online course and seminar "Plant Response to Stress" (PRESS) and the colloquium "Challenges in Plant Sciences" , the focus lies on interdisciplinarity, ranging from molecular biology and biochemistry to ecosystem research, and an integrated understanding of plants in their environments.

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This lecture provides an introduction into crop and forage sciences - with a focus on sustainable management methods.

This course provides an introduction into crop and forage sciences - with a focus on sustainable management methods in Switzerland and Europe.

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This lecture provides an introduction into crop and forage sciences. Aspects of sustainable production, interaction with and control of weeds will be topics as well as an introduction to the wide diversity of local plants and their groups in general. Scientific and application-related literature will be discussed; excursions provide an in-depth-learning experience.

When studying at a University, but especially when carrying out a Master’'s or doctoral thesis, students are joining the scientific community and, therefore, have to learn about the codes of professional and responsible conduct in research.

This course introduces students to scientific work with data, covering the full workflow from importing datasets (e.g., from Excel) to performing basic statistical analyses and generating clear, scientifically accurate visualizations. Through hands-on exercises in R and RStudio, students gain practical experience in data analysis and the creation of meaningful graphical representations.

This course provides an overview about the applicability of stable isotopes (carbon 13C, nitrogen 15N, oxygen 18O and hydrogen 2H) to process-oriented ecological research. Topics focus on stable isotopes as indicators for the origin of pools and fluxes, partitioning of composite fluxes as well as to trace and integrate processes. In addition, students carry out a small project during lab sessions.

Die Grundlagen des Welternährungssystem werden anhand von Fallbeispielen aus der Forschung entlang der Wertschöpfungskette vermittelt.In einem begleitenden Lernelement können die Studierenden nicht nur selbst gewählte Themen des Welternährungssystems vertiefen, sondern lernen auch Methoden der Künstlichen Intelligenz – wie etwa ChatGPT oder vergleichbare Modelle – kennen und anwenden.