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The Swiss Research Foundation on Mobile Communication (FSM) is a non-profit foundation approved by the Swiss Federal Supervisory Board of Foundations. It operates from its office located in Zurich at the Laboratory for Electromagnetic Fields and Microwave Electronics of ETH Zurich. It was founded in fall 2002, and in January 2003 it was registered by the Commercial Registry Office of the Canton of Zurich. The FSM is sponsored by ETH Zurich, Orange, Sunrise and Swisscom. In addition, it is supported by the Swiss Federal Offices SFOPH (Office of Public Health), OFCOM (Office of Communications), FOEN (Federal Office for the Environment) and the NGO's Konsumentenforum (kf), EWZ, Stadt Zürich, Swiss Cancer League, Ingeniéur Hôspital Suisse and Swiss Heritage Society (SHS). The Research Foundation is Swiss coordinator for the COST-Action BM0704. |
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| MISSION | |
The aim of the FSM is to promote innovative research projects in the mobile phone sector in the broadest sense, as well as to collate and distribute the resulting research findings to scientists and the public at large. Scientific project evaluation and decisions about support are taken by the Scientific Committee of the FSM that guarantees for neutral, independent and science based decisions of high scientific quality projects. More about the procedure here. |
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| FUNDS | |
| The research money comes from a fund. The annual research budget amounts to 550'000 francs basically. In addition to the research fund, the administration, direction, and services of the FSM are subsidized with max. 250'000 francs per year. | |
| RESEARCH PROGRAMME | |
| The FSM funds
projects which investigate important questions of public concern to
do with the chances and risks associated with cellular phone technology.
Thematically the projects may concern one or more of the following
research areas (the list should not be considered final): |
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A .. Basic Research: in-vitro and in-vivo studies, dosimetry, human studies |
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B .. Risk perception &
-communication: Risk perception, risk communication, risk management, regulatory issues |
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C .. Technology & applied
Research: Eco-design (LCA's), design of mobile phone infrastructure, schemes for dismantling, siting issues, measurement problems |
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| ORGANISATION | |
| The Research
Foundation is run by the Foundation Board consisting
of:
.. Prof. Dr. Heinz Gutscher, Universität Zürich (President) .. Herr Philippe Horisberger, BAKOM (Vice president) .. Herr Christian Grasser, Swisscom .. Prof. Dr. Farhad Rachidi, ETH Lausanne .. Prof. Dr. Martin Röösli, Universität Basel .. Prof. Dr. Michael Siegrist, ETH Zürich .. Frau Franziska Troesch-Schnyder, Konsumentenforum kf |
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| The
members of the Scientific
Committee are: .. Prof. Dr. Peter Achermann, Universität Zürich (Chair) .. PD Dr. Urs Dahinden, IPMZ Zürich .. Dr. Gregor Dürrenberger, FSM (Executive Officer) .. Dr. Jürg Fröhlich, ETH Zürich .. Prof. Dr. Meike Mevissen, Universität Bern .. Dr. med. Regula Rapp, Universität Basel .. Prof. Dr. Primo Schär, Universität Basel .. Prof. Dr. Michael Siegrist, ETH Zürich |
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Executive Officer of the Research Foundation is Dr. Gregor Dürrenberger; the back office is in charge of Krisztina Meya. You can find all addresses
under Persons. |
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