Challenge accomplished

What a way to start the new year: Thanks to over 1600 committed donors, we have reached the challenge target of CHF 1 million! The million will be doubled to 2 million by the Fondation ALCEA.

Centre for Students & Entrepreneurs

16. January 2024

Thanks to the commitment of over 1600 ETH alumni, students and employees the challenge target of CHF 1 million was reached in only eight months. We would like to thank all donors. Special thanks go to the ETH juniors who brought the challenge over the finish line and to Jost Allmeling, Plexim, Prof Dr Roland Siegwart, Dr Severin Hacker, Andreas Friedrich, Heer und Co AG and the Werner Steiger Foundation.

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Centre for Students & Entrepreneurs

2. November 2023

The existing project resulted from a public tender in 2020. However, as it started to take shape, the project grew increasingly expensive, with the rise in costs reinforced by the inflation that has affected all building projects over the last two years. The Executive Board has therefore decided to commission a concept study to re-launch the project. The core idea – to establish a hotspot for creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship on the Hönggerberg campus – still remains. The valuable insights gained from the previous process will be incorporated into the new project, but costs are to be lower. The project will therefore be delayed by approximately two years. ETH feels particularly obliged towards donors, but also towards taxpayers, to build the new centre in a cost-effective way that maximises impact. The Centre for Students and Entrepreneurs represents an important milestone for ETH Zurich. When in operation, it will empower future generations of students to realise their creative ideas and enable entrepreneurial initiatives to achieve their full potential.

Centre for Students & Entrepreneurs

24. August 2022

Plans for a new building on ETH's Hönggerberg campus have taken a major step forward, thanks to a generous donation from UBS. The new space is to be a centre of dialogue and collaboration for creative students, the entrepreneurial ETH community, business and society. ETH Zurich and UBS are launching a strategic partnership to promote innovation and entrepreneurship. Over a ten-year period, UBS will invest up to CHF 20 million in two joint initiatives to promote entrepreneurship and innovation and raise interest in STEM subjects. In addition to these two initiatives, UBS will also make a donation of up to CHF 20 million to support the construction of a new ETH building on the Hönggerberg campus. The building will be a meeting platform for students and young entrepreneurs with business and society that will make an important contribution to ETH as an educational and innovative institution and strengthen Zurich and Switzerland as an innovation and business location. Thanks to the commitment of primary partner UBS, other organisations and numerous private individuals, CHF 25 million has already been raised to finance the space. For the remaining CHF 15 million further partners and donors are being sought.

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Ulrich O. Birch
Marco Jelmini
Lorrana Christal Glatthard
Fabian Michael Schmid
Catherine Schopfer
Fanny Masson
Georg Wüest
Edoardo Gai
Dr. Jiri Hoppe
Urs Tschudi
Dr. Philippe Wyrsch
Dr. Lars Massüger
Ciril Baselgia
Saskia Andrea Lienhard
Alexander Kochan
Jan Speckien
Christian Zbinden
Marc D. Nussbaumer
Dr. Miroslav Svercel
Florian Koch
Hans Stämpfli
Dr. David Rütti
Nathan Schmid
Rico Manz
Roland Baumann
Prof. Dr. h.c. Ernst Spiess
Ladina Saluz
Sandra Scherrer
Dr. Boris Sangiorgio
Daniel Kluge
Dr. Willy Schüep
Fabio Lucchinetti
Hans Rüegg
Dr. Markus Hosang
Dr. Simone Zürcher*
Dr. Vera de Vries
Elias Bürli
Urs Müller
Dr. Frédéric Baudraz
Ruedi Wassmer
Dr. Philippe Nater
Dr. Marc Wolf
Jürg Brandenberger
Christian Brändli
Ulrich Pistor
Ernst Ruchti
Urs Züger
Kurt Baumgartner
Hugo-Friedrich Kurth
Ka Kei Yeung
Dr. Michael Oettli
Dr. Julian Alexander Klinkmann
Dr. Ulrich Niklaus
Peter Hanhart
Jürg Nyfeler
Kurt Funk
Lukas Schwab
Prof. Dr. Christophorus Grab
Dr. Philippe Salle
Dr. Sergio Tagliaferri
Dr. Hans von Werra
Christoph Bachmann
Walther Steinegger
Dr. Christian Walter Frei
Dr. Thomas Isenschmid
Werner Schellenberg
Matej Janovjak
Klaus D. Floessel
Dominique André Stark
Andrea Susanne Kossinna
Julia Wysling
Familie Rhomberg*
Dr. Philippe Monteil
Beat Füglister
Hans Wernli
Frédéric Despont
Claudio Jeker
Dr. Hanna Brahme
Dr. Eva Zocher
Dr. Claude Bastian
Florian Fricker
Charles Vernon Wülser*
Andreas Gasser
Ermanno Keller
Werner Grünig
Ueli Leu
Dr. Emmanuel de Haller
Kalina Petrova
Silvano Mattei
Dr. Hardy P. Weiss
Eva Rampini-Egli
Albrecht Josephy-Hablützel
Manuel Bleichenbacher
Peter Burkhalter
Henri Hepp sel.
Philipp Berni
Walter Hauser
Roland Stähli
Norbert Thüring
Daniel Philipp
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