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On 15 October, partners of the Interreg France-Suisse REPLAY project gathered at Caran d’Ache in Geneva for their first technical meeting, marking another step towards facilitating the use of recycled plastics in industry. Following the project’s official launch in Lyon, this meeting brought together researchers and industrial partners to exchange expertise, discuss technical challenges and […]

How can digital learning technologies be effectively integrated into Swiss classrooms? The Lighthouse EdTech Initiative, supported by the Jacobs Foundation, is exploring this question by bringing together researchers, EdTech companies, and schools to evaluate educational technologies in real-world learning environments. The initiative recently shared insights from six pilot projects conducted in Swiss classrooms, highlighting the […]

For our latest iCoSys Over-the-Lunch, we welcomed Loïc Moisan for a presentation on “MCP and AI: Interacting with Enterprise Data Using Natural Language.” “How many units did we sell last month?” or “What is the latest contract we signed?” These simple questions illustrated how AI could provide a more natural way to interact with enterprise […]

Members of the iCoSys team recently took part in ICDAR 2026 in Vienna, an international conference dedicated to document analysis and recognition. One of the highlights was the hands-on tutorial “Agentic AI for Document Analysis Systems,” presented by Ornella Vaccarelli, Olivier D’Ancona, Tim Hallyburton, Anna Scius-Bertrand and Beat Wolf. Agentic AI for document analysis During […]

The AI Days will return from 17 to 19 February 2027, bringing together the artificial intelligence community across Yverdon-les-Bains, Geneva and Fribourg. The call for contributions is now open, with a submission deadline of 25 November 2026. Organized by the Swiss Artificial Intelligence Centre for SMEs (CSIA-PME) and funded by the Engineering and Architecture domain […]

The Fribourg-based LegalTech start-up Neur.on has been acquired by the Paris-based group Legal 230, marking a new step in its development. The foundations of Neur.on were laid through Datalambic, an applied research project conducted by iCoSys together with Hieronymus AG. The project combined expertise in AI, data engineering and document processing to address the challenges […]

The Swiss AI Center was pleased to take part in the “L’IA sur mesure” (Tailor-Made AI) event, organized by Alliance innovation, alongside Alp ICT, Innovaud, and the Swiss Data Science Center. On this occasion, Jean Hennebert, Director of the Swiss AI Center, presented the opportunities available to companies to develop and integrate artificial intelligence solutions by […]

On 28 August, as part of ACM DocEng 2026 in Fribourg, iCoSys hosted the first edition of the Workshop on Legal Document Engineering (WoLDE 26) – one of the first workshops dedicated specifically to document analysis in the legal domain. Organized by Aixiu An, Andreas Fischer, Mark Drenhaus and Sébastien Rumley, the workshop brought together […]

New iCoSys research on energy-efficient Document AI How much additional energy is required to improve the accuracy of Document AI systems – and at what point does the extra computational effort stop being worthwhile? At ACM DocEng 2026, iCoSys researchers Adam Grossenbacher, Loïc Guibert, Beat Wolf and Jean Hennebert presented their paper, “More Power, More […]

AI for good – Biodiversity PMC, the One Health Library powered with AI The iCoSys team (HEIA-FR), together with the Swiss AI Center for SMEs, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, took part in the AI for Good Global Summit 2026, organised by the International Telecommunication […]