AI & digital society
How emerging systems can expand human capability and serve the public interest.
↗Independent nonprofit initiative · Zurich
Ideas move forward when people move together.
LOIS IIC brings research, technology and enterprise into conversation around ideas with the potential to serve the public good.
A shared space for new possibilities
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Why LOIS IIC
Innovation matters most when its benefits travel.
A promising idea rarely advances on its own. It needs people who can connect knowledge, ask better questions and turn possibility into useful progress.
LOIS is being shaped as a nonprofit initiative for that work: an independent meeting point for researchers, builders and institutions exploring how innovation can contribute to a healthier, more resilient and more open society.
Areas of interest
Big questions deserve more than one point of view.
LOIS IIC is developing an international perspective across fields where research, technology and everyday life increasingly meet.
Science & health
How discovery moves across disciplines, institutions and communities.
↗Climate & resilient places
How practical innovation can support more adaptive, sustainable communities.
↗Open collaboration
How people and organizations can share knowledge and create lasting connections.
↗A way of working
Make room for the next useful connection.
The center is being developed around thoughtful exchange, shared learning and collaboration across borders and disciplines.
Bring different minds together
Create space for researchers, entrepreneurs and institutions to meet around common challenges.
Ask what progress is for
Consider the wider effects of new ideas and the people who stand to benefit from them.
Let knowledge move
Encourage open exchange so insight can travel beyond its original discipline or setting.
A European base, an international outlook
Rooted in Zurich. Open to the world.
Zurich offers a meeting point for research, technology and enterprise. LOIS IIC is conceived there with a perspective that reaches across Europe and beyond.
Get in touch
Good work begins with a conversation.
For general enquiries, ideas and conversations about collaboration, write to us at any of these addresses. Messages are received through the LOIS IIC Post Office.