WTT Young Leader Award

Successful market research project for GIFAS

OST project team achieves 2nd place and wins the audience award

Every year, the WTT Young Leader Award of the OST – Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences honors the best practice-oriented projects in the categories of market research and management conception. The focus is on real assignments from companies that are scientifically supported and implemented by students. The aim is to promote innovation, entrepreneurial spirit and knowledge transfer between university and business.

2nd place and audience award for the project with GIFAS

At this year's awards, the OST project team, which realized a market research project for GIFAS-ELECTRIC GmbH, was able to impress twice over: The team achieved 2nd place in the market research category and also won the audience award.

The project brief focused on the topic of employee satisfaction and loyalty at GIFAS-ELECTRIC GmbH - a valuable basis for the further development of our internal structures and corporate culture. The result shows how successfully scientific methods and practical questions can be combined to develop concrete recommendations for action for companies.

GIFAS team at the Young Leader Award - Award for market research

OST students in conversation with GIFAS expert in production in Rheineck - insight into modern production technology.

Congratulations and thanks

We would like to congratulate the OST project team on this outstanding achievement! Special thanks go to the entire team for their commitment, professional cooperation and the exciting insights that the results offer us.

This award underlines how valuable the exchange between university and business is – and how new perspectives are created through partnership-based collaboration.

Pitch clip

The OST project team examined employee satisfaction at GIFAS-ELECTRIC GmbH in Rheineck.

See the pitch clips from the GIFAS-ELECTRIC GmbH project team.