Swiss Center For Design And Health

Swiss Center for Design and Health (SCDH) - Profile The Swiss Center for Design and Health is a national technology competence center and a research institution of international significance. At the interface of design and health, it combines interdisciplinary evidence based academic research and private industry projects with a focus on knowledge and technology transfer. Founded in 2019 as a public-private-partnership, it is strongly supported by public and private partners from business and academia. The SCDH conducts research, teaching, projects and practice advisory, from idea generation to prototyping up to the development and launch of innovative new products. It currently employs eleven people and is based in Nidau near Biel. The federal government and the canton of Berne are financially subsidizing the first couple of years of the center. From 2030, the Center is supposed to be self-funded.