Projects

ETH4Development

Climate Change Battle Fought in the Fields: Revitalising Soil with Cocoa Farming

Large chocolate corporations make sustainability claims with agroforestry. But is the impact on the ground as promising as the story on the packaging? Let’s take a look...

2 days ago

[y]our 2040

Hybrid

In Spring 2022, the Strategic Foresight Hub invited the ETH community for the second time to travel to the year 2040 and describe everyday life in the future. Essay 4...

1 week ago

[y]our 2040

ETH Today

In Spring 2022, the Strategic Foresight Hub invited the ETH community for the second time to travel to the year 2040 and describe everyday life in the future. Essay 3...

1 week ago

[y]our 2040

A typical Wednesday in the life of a chemistry Professor in Singapore in 2040

In Spring 2022, the Strategic Foresight Hub invited the ETH community for the second time to travel to the year 2040 and describe everyday life in the future. Essay 2...

1 week ago

[y]our 2040

2040 Essay Contest: Freedom of Choice

In Spring 2022, the Strategic Foresight Hub invited the ETH community for the second time to travel to the year 2040 and describe everyday life in the future. Essay 1 ...

2 weeks ago

Events, Future of Work, Innovation in Architecture

No1s1: An Autonomous Self-Owning House Goes to the World Economic Forum

At the WEF in Davos, the ETH Zurich Pavilion featured Hongyang Wang’s prototype of a self-owning house equipped with IoT systems and its own treasury on the blockchain....

3 weeks ago

ETH4Development, South Asia

Candela Energy: An ETH4D Grant Makes Serving the Underserved a Possibility

To help communities in need, it’s important to genuinely listen to their REAL needs, understand their REAL stress points, and attend to the differences between them. ...

4 weeks ago

RETHINKING LIVING

From Laax to Davos: Reflections on RETHINKING LIVING, Ep. 9

Episode 9: TASTELAB, ETH Zurich Food Science Spin-off...

1 month ago

ETH4Development, togETHer

ETH Solidarity with Ukraine

We talked to ETH4D's Grant Manager Patricia Heuberger, who has been appointed as the Scholars at Risk Coordinator in the ETH Support Group Ukraine. ...

2 months ago

ETH4Development

Breathe: A Pathway to Care

In low-resource settings, small measures such as targeted training combined with simple, efficient technology, yield meaningful change and progress. ...

2 months ago

Africa, ETH4Development

A Bird’s Eye View: Drone Imagery From the Vantage Point of Zambian Stakeholders

Two researchers shared large prints of aerial images with various stakeholders in Zambian landscapes to discuss opportunities and risks of drone technology....

2 months ago

Events, Machine Learning, Robotics

The Case for Biomimetic Machines

For his recent TED Talk (April 10), Robert Katzschmann introduced the audience to new approaches in robotics engineering. ...

3 months ago

Projects

Climate Change Battle Fought in the Fields: Revitalising Soil with Cocoa Farming

Hybrid

ETH Today

A typical Wednesday in the life of a chemistry Professor in Singapore in 2040

2040 Essay Contest: Freedom of Choice

No1s1: An Autonomous Self-Owning House Goes to the World Economic Forum

Candela Energy: An ETH4D Grant Makes Serving the Underserved a Possibility

From Laax to Davos: Reflections on RETHINKING LIVING, Ep. 9

ETH Solidarity with Ukraine

Breathe: A Pathway to Care

A Bird’s Eye View: Drone Imagery From the Vantage Point of Zambian Stakeholders

The Case for Biomimetic Machines

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