The University of Bern on the move

Media releases, information for representatives of the media Media Relations (E) Research at the University of Bern is being intensified: Innovative joint projects from different subject areas are being supported with the new Interfaculty Research Cooperations IRC. In teaching, the study of pharmacy is being expanded to a full-time course. The number of students is stabilising at a high level: Around 17,550 students will be newly enrolled in Bern. Rector Christian Leumann focussed on important developments and highlights from the past few months at the annual media conference. For example, the University of Bern has been accepted into the circle of Europe's most research-intensive universities, which are combined in the association "The Guild". The ARTORG Centre for Biomedical Engineering Research and the University Hospital of Bern (Inselspital), among others, have announced a breakthrough in research: After a decade of work, medics and engineers have developed an extremely precise assistant robot for operations on the inner ear. This has been used to perform the world's first robot-assisted cochlear implantation, which can give deaf patients their hearing back.