05 March 2021
Gender Strategy 2021–2024
The ETH Domain aims to improve the gender balance among its member institutions by increasing the share of women in education and in research, as well as in management positions. Ensuring equal...
"We don't have an energy problem, we have a CO2 problem."
Mr Bach, mobility is crucial in tackling the climate crisis. Why? If we are seeking to have a CO2-neutral economy by 2050, this primarily means that we have to stop using fossil fuels from...
Knowledge that works
Homo faber is something of a Swiss national hero. One of the few engineers to have achieved fame in world literature. Damien C. Weber, head of proton therapy at the PSI, has another hero. “Have you...
Cybersecurity, the Swiss way
Cybersecurity. Or security in the digital realm, which is frequently no longer even called cyberspace be-cause it has long since become part of our everyday lives. And that’s precisely where the...
The fun of pure thinking
Alessio Figalli hurries into his office in the main building of ETH Zurich and apologises in a heartfelt Italian way for being two minutes late. His shirt freshly ironed; on his desk a few piles of...
Heating and cooling with lake water
Zurich town hall was heated with water from the Limmat as far back as 1938. Nowadays, four lake water networks around the Lake Zurich basin deliver heating and cooling to the surrounding buildings;...
Storing power in gas
On the site of the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Villigen, the future of energy is housed in six white containers, which are lined up on a platform called "Energy System Integration", or "ESI" for...
History goes digital: Virtual time machine allows you to step back into the past
“Recently, I was standing on the Rialto Bridge in Venice in front of one of the tourist shops and couldn’t help thinking that in 1740, in this exact spot, Francesco Raspi’s bottega was selling...12 December 2017
Gender Strategy 2017–2020
The Gender Strategy 2017–2020 is an overarching strategy to foster gender balance and equal opportunities for women and men within the ETH Domain. While the broader concept of diversity is important...