Swiss Center for Affective Sciences
The Swiss Center for Affective Sciences (French: Centre Interfacultaire en Sciences Affectives or "CISA" ) is a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research center based at the University of Geneva (Geneva, Switzerland).
The Center was founded [1][2] in 2005 [3] under the direction of Prof. Klaus Scherer at the University of Geneva as the host institution of the National Center for Competence in Research (NCCR) Affective Sciences supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). The Center has been directed by Prof. David Sander since 2011.
The Center brings together researchers from the natural sciences, humanities, and social sciences around the common goal of understanding emotions and other affective phenomena such as moods, stress, or well-being. It also develops methodologies and tools to study the neural, psychological, bodily and social underpinnings of affective phenomena. With this respect, the Center plays a role in the rise of affectivism in academia and beyond.
Likewise, the Center carries out applied research in collaboration with public and private partners.
In addition, the Center offers an Education & Training program for researchers in affective sciences. It coordinates training activities for the members of the Center and the academic community at large. The most important of them is the International Summer School in Affective Sciences (ISSAS), organized mainly for PhD students in the affective sciences from all over the world.
Lastly, thanks to outreach activities such as festivals and museum exhibits,[4][5][6] the Center cooperates with Swiss and international cultural institutions to better communicate to society current knowledge about emotion.
Notes and references
[edit]- ^ "Douze ans de révolution affective". www.unige.ch (in French). 20 April 2007. Retrieved 13 May 2024.
- ^ "PRN Sciences affectives". Fonds national suisse (FNS) (in German). Retrieved 13 May 2024.
- ^ "Campus n°76 - Campus - le magazine scientifique de l'UNIGE - DOSSIER: L'émotion en pole position". www.unige.ch (in French). 20 April 2007. Retrieved 13 May 2024.
- ^ "ÉMOTIONS - UNE HISTOIRE NATURELLE (2014)". Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Neuchâtel (in French). Retrieved 13 May 2024.
- ^ "Y a de la joie - Le Temps" (in French). 15 September 2017. ISSN 1423-3967. Retrieved 13 May 2024.
- ^ "Emotions". Braun Publishing. Retrieved 13 May 2024.
External links
[edit]- Official website - https://www.unige.ch/cisa/
- Official website -Teaching activities - https://www.unige.ch/cisa/education/education/
- Official website - Current specific research groups: https://www.unige.ch/cisa/research/research-groups/cisa-groups/
- Official website - Outreach activities - https://www.unige.ch/cisa/partnerships/sharing-research-public/
- Official website – Affectivism - https://www.unige.ch/cisa/research/current-specific-research-projects/affectivism/
- Alias website - affective-sciences.org