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What does Industry 4.0 mean? Our partner Swissmem, the association of the Swiss mechanical, electrical and metal industries, explains it in a short video.

uptownBasel and Swissmem have signed a six-year partnership. As gold partner and sponsor, the innovation campus supports Swissmem Berufsbildung in preparing young professionals for EuroSkills and WorldSkills.

Swiss television SRF reports on a solution from the uptownBasel Co-Creation LAB that aims to improve distancing safety on construction sites, developed in response to the COVID-19 crisis.

Together with the government of Basel-Landschaft and around 100 guests, uptownBasel celebrated the official foundation stone ceremony on 7 June 2019. The first leases are signed, and a competence center for Industry 4.0 is taking shape on the largest construction site in northwestern Switzerland.

On 26 March 2019, construction began on the first major building of uptownBasel, a future competence center for Industry 4.0 on the former industrial site on Schorenweg in Arlesheim.