2026

CELLSIUS,?an association of students at ETH Zurich, has been awarded the Jakob Ackeret?Prize 2025. The award recognises the development of the H2-Sling, a?hydrogen-powered aircraft that, to the best of current knowledge, is the?world¡¯s first fully functional student-built hydrogen aircraft.

Make your research easy to understand, present your findings in a compelling way and convey a confident image to the media: Improve your communication skills with the courses from the Communication Academy. The course programme for the Spring 2026 Semester is now online.?

At the turn of the year, the ETH Zurich Executive Board once again looked back on the past twelve months and gave an outlook for 2026 during its virtual town hall meeting. A recording of the event is now available.

The use of generative Artificial Intelligence in communications poses new challenges for many ETH employees. Practical guidelines are designed to ensure confidence and clarity in dealing with AI.

ETH Zurich today announced a major step towards advancing research transparency, promoting open and trustworthy digital research output. At the New Year¡¯s town hall meeting, the Vice President for Research introduced a new Charter and a new funding programme, both established to foster a shared commitment to the FAIR principles ¨C making research data and all digital research assets Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable.?

Get yourself and your research project in shape with our research data management workshop programms. You can now register for the Spring Semester 2026 workshops.??

Andrew Jackson is Professor of Earth and Planetary Magnetism at D-EAPS. His instrumental work in the field of geomagnetism led to the creation of a model which has been used by "virtually every study of the historical magnetic field of the last 20 years". In receiving the Society's highest honour - which dates back 200 years - he joins the likes of Stephen Hawking, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Albert Einstein and Edwin Hubble.

Christophe Cop¨¦ret, Professor of Surface and Interfacial Chemistry at?D-CHAB, has been elected to the French Academy of Sciences. The Academy plays a?key role in promoting scientific dialogue.?

Regulations or guidelines? Speed or Security? Trying things out or reading instructions? We asked the new Vice President for Knowledge Transfer and Corporate Relations a series of rapid questions.

Since the start of the year, the Executive Board domain of Finance and Controlling has been divided into five administrative departments. The new structure partially realigns knowledge and specialist skills from the previous units and is intended to create a solid foundation for tackling challenges in the areas of compliance, controlling and the digitalisation of administrative processes in the best possible way.