Using three examples, this opinion piece argues that introductory economics can provide an effective context in which to introduce university students interdisciplinary learning and thinking. The first example illustrates how input-process-output diagrams be used stimulate thinking classrooms when teaching the concept of production. second third examples illustrate elasticity circular economies...

In this paper, we present the CItA corpus (Corpus Italiano di Apprendenti L1), a collection of essays written by Italian L1 learners collected during the first and second year of lower secondary school. The corpus was built in the framework of an interdisciplinary study jointly carried out by computational linguistics and experimental pedagogists and aimed at tracking the development of written...

Switzerland, with its ETHZ and EPFL, universities, advanced technical colleges, the CSEM, the Empa and the Paul Scherrer Institute, possesses a complete chain of knowledge and interdisciplinary competence which ranks it among the worldwide leaders in medical technology. To ensure that a wider range of excellent research results are translated into marketable products and methods, the CTI Agency...