Centers of Competence

Centers of Competence are interdisciplinary cross-faculty scholarly networks in which researchers and research groups of the University of Zurich coordinate their work according to strategic objectives. Some Centers of Competence are run by the University of Zurich together with other universities.

Researchers who would like to establish a Center of Competence first contact the Office of the Vice President Research (Division Research Development) to clarify the suitability of the project for this form of organization and to discuss the further procedure.

• Zentrum Altertumswissenschaften Zürich (ZAZH)
• Center for Applied Biotechology and Molecular Medicine (CABMM)
• Developmental Science Network Zurich (DSN-ZH)
• Center for Ethics
• Center for Gerontology
• Center for Higher Education and Science Studies (CHESS) 
• Center for Information Technology, Society and Law (ITSL)
• Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution (ISLE)
• Center of Competence Sleep & Health Zurich (SHZ)
• Jacobs Center for Productive Youth Development
• Center for the Arts and Cultural Theory
• Latin American Center Zurich (LZZ)
• UZH Blockchain Center (BCC)
• UZH Center for Crisis Competence (CCC)
• Center for Medicine – Ethics – Law Helvetiae
• Human Rights Competence Center
• Center for Reproducible Science (CRS)
• Language & Medicine Zurich (L&M)
• Center for Research in Sports Administration
• Center of Competence for Sustainable Finance (CCSF)
• Zurich Kidney Center (ZKC)

• Competence Center – Citizen Science (CC-CS)
• Neuroscience Center Zurich
• Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center