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In 2017, ETH Zurich board approved the creation of a "Student Project House" to encourage student projects and foster innovation. A test consisting of a "makerspace" and co-working space was established on the Hönggerberg campus, [41] [42] followed by a 6-story space near the ETH Zurich main building. Both locations function as a unified ...
The office building of the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, with part of the computing building on the left edge of the photo. The building at the new location Lugano-Cornaredo has a pillar-free machine hall of 2,000 m 2 and can be powered with up to 20 MW electricity.
The Swiss Seismological Service [a] at ETH Zurich is the federal agency responsible for monitoring earthquakes in Switzerland and its neighboring countries and for assessing Switzerland's seismic hazard. When an earthquake happens, the SED informs the public, authorities, and the media about the earthquake's location, magnitude, and possible ...
Each of these building modules was realized together with research and industry partners. On the research side, ETH Zurich, EPF Lausanne, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), for example, have used the NEST platform to date. The thematic focus of most of the units is on resource and ...
The Image archive is located in the main building of ETH Zurich. The Image Archive of ETH Library indexes the library's image holdings. Its nationally and internationally significant image holdings document the development of ETH Zurich, research expeditions, settlement development and changes in society, politics and technology in Switzerland.
The ETH Zurich University Archives are responsible for safeguarding, indexing and mediating documents belonging to ETH Zurich (founded in 1855) and the ETH Board. They also curate the private papers of scientists and societies with ties to ETH Zurich. Its holdings aid research on national and international academic, university and technical ...
1854: A Parliamentary resolution establishes a federal polytechnic school in Zurich, on the basis of the 1848 constitution. 15 October 1855: Opening of the ‘Swiss Federal Polytechnic School’ with six divisions, including the Engineering School and – although not originally envisaged – the ‘Building School’.
The Eawag was founded in 1936 as an advisory board of the ETH Zurich for wastewater treatment and drinking water supplies. [5] Less than ten years later this information center officially becomes the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (or EAWAG as per its German acronym) whose mission is increasingly devoted to developing integrated approaches to water management and ...