Education Policy
How ETH Zurich plans to develop
Teaching
ETH Zurich
The “Institutional Priorities 2025–2036” and the “Development Plan 2025–2028” set out how the university plans to fulfil its mission over the coming years.
Nature’s classroom
Teaching
ETH Zurich
The Teaching Diploma in Sport at ETH Zurich is the only programme of its kind in Switzerland. Blending outdoor education with the romance of camp life, the course sees students brave cold water and river rapids.
Why we need space exploration
Research
ETH Zurich
Thomas Zurbuchen, Director of ETH Zurich Space, explains how Switzerland can do a better job of exploring and exploiting space – and how there’s still enormous potential to be tapped.
EPFL's Fribourg campus to get six additional research chairs by 2030
Teaching
EPFL
Six new research chairs will be created on the Fribourg campus over the next few years, bringing the total to ten by 2030. All chairs will be based at the Smart Living Lab (SLL) experimental building that will be constructed in the bluefactory innovation district starting next year. The decision to create the new research chairs follows the opening of EPFL’s new Centre for Worldwide Sustainable Construction (CWSC), which operates out of both the Lausanne and Fribourg campuses and works with organizations globally.
“You can ask a chatbot things you might not dare to ask in a lecture”
Teaching
ETH Zurich
Where is generative AI already proving its worth in teaching and what are its limits? Will avatars soon replace lecturers? In this interview, Jan Vermant, Vice Rector for Curriculum Development, talks about trends at ETH and his own experiences.
University funding: a national debate is needed
Politics
ETH Zurich
EPFL and ETH Zurich Presidents Martin Vetterli and Joël Mesot consider high tuition fees as in the English-speaking world to be the wrong approach to improving the financial situation of the two universities. Students should be seen as success factors for our country and not as cash cows.
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