Davos is one of the most famous sports and holiday resort of the Alps. A less known fact is that Davos is also an important city for research and education.

Already in 1878 the Fridericianum – a kind of high school for students suffering from tuberculosis – was founded in Davos. Right after the turn of the century Carl Dorno – founder of today's Physic-Meteorological Observatory Davos and World Radiation Center – founded a first small research institute. These beginnings laid the foundation stone for Davos as science city (Wissensstadt.ch).