Today at #EC106 🇨🇭 urged all States Parties to collaborate fully with OPCW & comply with all obligations under the #CWC. I also stressed the importance of regional and gender balance & highlighted the training course for women first responders held last week in 🇨🇭 Spiez Laboratory.

Today the #Youth4Biosec Fellows are visiting Spiez Laboratory 🇨🇭. A key visit to: ☑️ Understand how a high containment facility works #BSL4 ☑️Learn about the lab's contribution to the #1972BWC ☑️Gain insights on biological emergency response teams Thank you to SwitzerlandUN Swiss MFA

6th Spiez CONVERGENCE conference started with 76 participants from 13 countries and 4 organisations

6th Spiez CONVERGENCE conference successfully completed. Report available online by the end of 2024.

9th UNSGM Designated Laboratories workshop 2024 started with 68 participants from 15 countries and 7 organisations.

9th UNSGM Designated Laboratories workshop 2024 successfully completed. Report available online by end 2024.

At the IAEA - International Atomic Energy Agency ⚛️ Ministerial Conference, director of Swiss Federal office of Energy Benoît Revaz, highlighted how Switzerland supports and strengthens the Agency’s nuclear science and technologies through Swiss institutions such as Spiez Laboratory, EPFL and Eawag.

The report of the 6th Spiez CONVERGENCE conference is now available online. backend.spiezlab.admin.ch/fileservice/sd…

The report of the ninth UNSGM Designated Laboratories Workshop is now available online. backend.spiezlab.admin.ch/fileservice/sd…

Just finished collecting seawater samples near Fukushima Daiichi NPS with experts from China, South Korea, Switzerland & @IAEAorg. This is part of additional measures to facilitate broader participation in monitoring treated water release and independently verify safety.

Spiez Laboratory congratulates director Dr. Marc Cadisch for his appointment as Full Member to the 🇨🇭Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences SATW in recognition of contributions to protection against nuclear, biological and chemical threats.☢️☣️🧪 satw.ch/en/news/satw-w…

Today at the OPCW Executive Council, 🇨🇭co-hosted a Side Event together with Spiez Laboratory about the 10 years anniversary of #SpiezCONVERGENCE conference. Great opportunity to stress the importance of science- and evidence-based decision making OPCW!

10th #UNSGM Designated Laboratories Workshop 2025 started with 60 participants from 16 countries and 6 organisations.

10th #UNSGM Designated Laboratories Workshop successfully completed. Report available online by end of 2025.

Celebrating 100 years of Spiez Lab! Committed to a world free of chemical weapons, our expertise remains available to our partner OPCW. We trust that🇨🇭Amb. Dallafior EDA - DFAE could contribute to this mission as DG of OPCW. We wish her success for the ongoing election process.

Spiez Laboratory congratulates 🇨🇭 Amb. Sabrina Dallafior Matter on being recommended by the Executive Council of the OPCW as the next Director-General. This is an important acknowledgment of her expertise and Switzerland’s commitment to chemical disarmament.

Congratulations to 🇨🇭 Switzerland’s Spiez Laboratory on its 100th anniversary: for more than a century, the Lab has advanced science in service of public protection, including important work in radiation protection and nuclear safety. Joined the anniversary ceremony hosted by

In the presence of Rafael Mariano Grossi & Federal Councillor Martin Pfister, the Spiez Laboratory was today redesignated as a Collaborating Centre of the IAEA - International Atomic Energy Agency ⚛️. As such, the Laboratory will be able to share resources, knowledge and expertise with other members.

Das Spiez Laboratory hat heute in Anwesenheit von BR Martin Pfister in Bern sein 100-jähriges Jubiläum gefeiert. Neben diversen Ansprachen umfasste das Programm des Festaktes auch eine eine fotografische Hommage. Erfahren Sie mehr zum Jubiläum 👉 bit.ly/47kBWjb