Enriching partnership for research and innovation
Politics
Empa PSI
Energy transition, climate change, biodiversity and resource scarcity – today's challenges are complex, and the clock is ticking. So joining forces and working together ever more closely is the name of the game these days. This is exactly what the four research institutes of the ETH Domain – Empa, Eawag, WSL and PSI (Paul Scherrer Institute) – are doing. With cooperation platforms and joint projects, the four institutes are positioning themselves even more clearly than before as THE bridge between research and innovative solutions for today's challenges.
Cooperation Future Campus
Further Reading
EPFL team discover thousands of new transformable knots
Research
EPFL
Leveraging results from knot theory and using physical simulation, researchers in the School of Computer and Communication Sciences (IC) have created a data set of thousands of different elastic knots that can be used in the design of new structures.
Data Physics Cooperation
A human model for autism
Research
ETH Zurich
The CRISPR-Cas gene scissors enable researchers to study the genetic and cellular causes of autism in the lab – directly on human tissue.
Health Sciences Personalised Health Neurosciences
Children help create circular futures
Teaching
Empa
When the children’s creativity meets scientific expertise, new ideas are born – for example, about what the sustainable world of tomorrow might look like. Together with school children and the St. Gallen University of Teacher Education, Empa researchers are developing a children’s book about circular economy that is meant to inspire both young and old.
Society Climate Change
ETH Zurich
EPFL
PSI
WSL
Empa
Eawag
The ETH Domain strives to strengthen the competitiveness of Switzerland in the long term and contribute to the development of society through excellence in research, teaching and knowledge and technology transfer.
Imaging at the next level
Research
ETH Board
Their names are Marianne Liebi Adrian Wanner. Two young researchers who make the nanostructure of macroscopic samples, such as bones or brain tissue, visible in three dimensions using high-resolution images. They achieve this using measurement data obtained with X-rays at the Swiss Light Source at PSI, which is then processed and used for imaging.