Challenges, Appointments, and Financial Struggles at ETH Domain

The ETH Domain, including institutions such as ETH Zurich and EPFL, is facing challenges due to budget cuts, lack of compensation for inflation, and exclusion from the EU's Horizon Europe program. The disadvantages of non-association with Horizon Europe cannot be compensated by national funding.

The ETH Board has appointed Thomas Zurbuchen, former Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at NASA, as a professor at ETH Zurich. The board has also started the process of appointing a successor to the President of EPFL, Martin Vetterli.

The institutions of the ETH Domain train specialist staff for Switzerland and have produced 4,000 master's degree graduates, 1,500 doctorates, and 54 spin-offs in 2022. The ETH Domain faces financial challenges, including the inability to receive an inflation adjustment and being excluded from Horizon Europe.

Thomas Zurbuchen will head the ETH Zurich Space initiative and aims to expand space research and teaching. ETH Zurich has restricted matriculations for its Bachelor's degree in Human Medicine due to high demand.

The ETH Board has initiated the procedure for selecting a new President of EPFL, and Pascale Bruderer will join the ETH Board as Vice President in 2024..

(Quelle:Swiss Federal Council modified with ChatGPT)

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