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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Alexander Kaufmann
Jakob Grünenfelder
Dr. Albert J. Ganz
Isabel Portmann
Dr. Ulrich Kammer
Dr. Entela Kanani
Dr. Müge Yüksek Meiller
Dr. Jakob Troller
Monique Annemarie & Jean-Philippe Lieberherr
Flavio Pfaffhauser
Ilyas Besler
Alexander Kochan
Michael Rufer
Prof. Dr. Meinrad Klaus Eberle
Dr. Erich Oswald
Dr. Simon Lukas Häne
Paul Stebler
Kurt Hoppe
SWF Stiftung für wissenschaftliche Forschung
Felix C. Jenny
Carlotta Ginevra Valentina Cimiotti
Dr. Thomas Etter
Christian Lanz
Dr. Michael Zürcher
Dr. Alexander Brändli
Dr. Vera de Vries
Dr. Vincent Michel
Ivo Fölmli
Erik Fonseka
Ernst Baumann
Dr. Gottfried Gehriger
Michael Gut
Ernst Berger
Dipl.-Ing. Gianpietro Dinner
Familie Rhomberg*
Dr. Renato Joos
Dr. Marco de Tomasi
Max Zollinger
Claudio Ceschi
Daniel Cordey
Dr. Markus Rexroth
Dr. Ernst-Peter Krebs
Andreas Meyer
Patrick Feller
Prof. Dr. phil.ll Hans Peter Ruffner
Hans Peter Schaufelberger
Dr. Christian-Thomas Monn
Dr. Marc von Waldkirch
Dr. Kurt Pernstich
Dr. Philippe Corboz
Franz Bernasconi
Dr. Peter Hemmi
Prof. Dr. Anton Wutz
Ernst Gujer
Dr. Dieter Trachsler
Dr. David Stefanovits
Ueli Maag
Christian Zahler
Lukas Schwab
Adrian Widmer
Emil Schneider
Pier Luigi Ballabio
Tonia Weibel
Frank Heckner
Aikaterini Tsampazi
Dr. Werner Witz
Armin Jossi
Prof. Dr. Markus W. Sigrist
Sonja Rüegg Stammbach
Luciano Iannicello
Aldo Roger Reibke
Eric Bourloud
Dr. Roger Emil Wick
Dr. Marc Wolf
Jörg Thomas Sommerau
Reto Montani
Jörg Schenker-Karrer
Anna Buchmann
Urs Rieder
Dr. Chris Brändli
Patrick Loepfe*
Lovro Soldo
Dr. Josefine Reber
Marco Galli
Dr. Markus Zobrist
Dr. Christian Adlhart
Simone Croci
Alex Streichenberg
Dr. Heinz Mäder
José Solo de Zaldivar
César Keller
Omar Cervantes Funes
Mark Albrecht
Dr. Max R. Kaufmann
Matej Janovjak
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Wehrli*
Peter Gafner
Oliver Zimmermann
Dr. Sebastian Schnoz
Fritz Conradin
Thank you!