Offers for Kids
Children are our future students, researchers, teachers and innovators. We want them to explore the world around them, to keep asking "why" and "how" and "what if". Therefore ETH Zurich is involved in resources and programs that help spark interest and curiousity for STEM subjects in the young people in our community. This includes support for teachers and schools.
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.”Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr Seuss), American children's book author and cartoonist
Various Offers and Activities
- Nationaler Zukunftstag welcomes children to explore the great diversity of the professional world at ETH. The main offering is tailored to 5th to 7th grade pupils keen to find out more about work and study at ETH Zurich.
- Treffpunkt Science City is ETH Zurich’s public science programme for all ages held in German. From kids’ university to seniors’ university and public lectures, the programme has something for everyone. The free events bring people from all generations together to experience the exciting world of research. Everyone is welcome – just come along!
- external page mint & pepper is an outreach project of external page Wyss Zurich that offers programs for children and young people in their free time that is fun, stimulates creativity and opens up career perspectives. Alongside the school program, they organize holiday camps and weekend activities.
- EducETH is the ETH competence center for teaching and learning. They bring together empirical research into teaching and learning with school teaching: Science meets School! (German only)
- The Department of Chemistry (D-CHAB) aims to give interested children, young people, students, and teachers an insight into chemistry, laboratory work, and studies whenever possible.
- ETH Unterwegs awakens interest in STEM subjects: an exhibition with hands-on experiments and exhibits, competitions and lectures – this is what students and lecturers from ETH Zurich bring to secondary schools in Switzerland with ETH Unterwegs.
- There are also many more exciting opportunities for school groups to visit ETH Zurich, such as Morph Tales – Exploring Artificial Intelligence and Globi’s Forest Lab. Find out more about visiting with a school.
- external page mint & pepper provides support and modules for schools to offer STEM learning to students in Switzerland.
- The ETH and UZH external page kihz Ferienbetreuung is running holiday programs during school holidays providing all-day childcare.
- The CreativeLabZ offers children and young people the opportunity to be creative and self-sufficient. In workshops, project weeks and holiday camps, the children and young people design their own projects and objects. In doing so, they combine materials, instruments and research methods from the natural sciences, technology, art and design.
- Many exciting offers for kids around Switzerland can be found at the external page Pro Juventute website.
- Offers from the City of Zurich can be found at the external page Ferienplausch site
- Check out the external page holiday pass from ZVV, available for those born between 2008 and 2018.
- external page EducaMINT is a Swiss platform that supports teachers in creating STEM-lectures.
Globi at ETH
A book about the Swiss comic-figure Globi is titled "Globi und die verrückte Maschine" and sparks children's fascination for science. The book can be purchased in various bookstores around Switzerland.