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These are the finalists for WSC2025 in Switzerland.

This country-level selection had a specific national organizer and a national coordination page.

Files

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  • This country has a category for its files, other files from there might have been uploaded after the local deadline and moved to the 2025 international category if such deadline was still valid.
  • As of now, the files in the local category uploaded within the local deadline are 92, with 0 obviously unsuitable files.
  • Uploaders statistics are available here.

Specific classes of files

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Jury

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  • the selection was performed directly, with no tool.
  • coordinator: Alessandro Marchetti.
  • the jurors were provided by a national jury:
    - Alessandro COBBE (mathematics)
    - Dominik LANDWEHR (media specialist)
    - Alessandro MARCHETTI (chemistry, outreach)
    Emanuele PACCAMICCIO (photography, communication)
    - / Mascha STROOBANT (biology, outreach)
  • the selection lasted from 2026-02-01 to 2026-04-06.
  • the results were published on 2026-04-26.

Prefinalists

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No information about prefinalists was given in this case.


People in science

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1st national finalist 2nd national finalist
Gathering of ron tree fruits (Borassus akeassii) in southern Ghana for ex situ propagation (nurseries of the Multipalms project) and future reforestation plans.
Didier Roguet
National winner 		Wildlife photographer in camouflage clothing taking pictures.
Giles Laurent


3rd national finalist 4th national finalist
Gathering of ron tree fruits (Borassus akeassii) in southern Ghana for ex situ propagation .
Didier Roguet 		Wildlife photographer in camouflage clothing taking pictures.
Giles Laurent



5th national finalist 6th national finalist
Search and discovery of relict populations of Guinea doum palm (Hyphaene guineensis) in southern Ghana.
Didier Roguet 		Wildlife photographer in camouflage clothing taking pictures.
Giles Laurent


Microscopy images

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no finalist was selected due to lack of candidates

Non-photographic media

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1st national finalist 2nd national finalist
Common genet searching for food (filmed from an isolated hide with reflective glass, in its natural habitat and in the wild) Montseny, Catalonia. Spain.
Luis Scarabino
National winner 		European bee-eater trying to swallow an Emperor dragonfly in Pfyn-Finges, Switzerland.
Giles Laurent


3rd national finalist 4th national finalist
Young Flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus) fishing in Klingnau Lake.
Luis Scarabino 		European bee-eater landing, killing and eating a bee in Pfyn-Finges, Switzerland.
Giles Laurent
5th national finalist 6th national finalist
Wildlife photographer in camouflage clothing taking pictures.
Giles Laurent 		Common buzzard searching for prey.
Luis Scarabino
7thnational finalist
Large scale structure emerging from a decoration of the Penrose rhombus tiling.
Peter Stampfli

Image sets

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1st national finalist 2nd national finalist
Diet of European bee-eater .
Giles Laurent
National winner
Combination and reconstruction, see details here 		Eagle owl with prey in Montseny, Catalonia. Spain.
Luis Scarabino


3rd national finalist 4th national finalist
Measurement station for noise and vibration in Neuenkirch, Switzerland.
Uschoen
set of images reconstructed by the organizers. 		Common kestrel hovering in search of prey.
Luis Scarabino
5th national finalist 6th national finalist
Common genet in the Montseny area, Catalonia. Spain.
Luis Scarabino
set of images reconstructed by the organizers. 		.
Giles Laurent
Combination and reconstruction, see details here


7th national finalist
The aerodynamics of a griffon vulture during its flight over the Rémuzat region, France.
Luis Scarabino
set of images reconstructed by the organizers.

Nature and wildlife

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1st national finalist 2nd national finalist
European bee-eater (Merops apiaster) chasing an Aglais butterfly in flight in Pfyn-Finges, Switzerland.
Giles Laurent
National winner
extracted from a set of images by the organizers. 		Female wolf spider with her spiderlings on her back.
Roy Egloff
3rd national finalist 4th national finalist
Kingfisher diving into the water.
Luis Scarabino 		Members of a colony of griffon vultures in the Sierras de Solsona, Catalonia.
Luis Scarabino
5th national finalist 6th national finalist
Great tit in Pfyn-Finges, Switzerland.
Giles Laurent 		Male Alpine ibexes fighting during mating season in Grammont, Switzerland.
Giles Laurent
7th national finalist
Common kestrel hovering in search of prey.
Luis Scarabino
This file was uploade as part of a set

Astronomy

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1st national finalist
Vertical panorama of the Milky Way aligned with the Matterhorn reflecting in Stellisee, Switzerland. .
Giles Laurent
National winner

General category

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1st national finalist 2nd national finalist
Measurement station for noise and vibration in Neuenkirch, Switzerland - Locomotive passing.
Uschoen
National winner 		Measurement station for noise and vibration in Neuenkirch, Switzerland.
Uschoen


3rd national finalist 4th national finalist
Measurement station for noise and vibration in Neuenkirch, Switzerland.
Uschoen 		Aletsch Glacier in Canton of Wallis, Switzerland.
Giles Laurent
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