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Over the coming years, the former district heating power plant (FHK) will be transformed into a place for students to pursue their own projects.

26,500 people work and study at ETH Zurich. How does our university manage to create a sense of unity, ensuring that everyone is working together towards a common goal? We explore this question in the current issue of “life”, the ETH community magazine.

Dieter Schorno has been Head of Vocational Education and Training for 18 years, and will be retiring at the end of June. Fabienne Jaquet took over his role on 1 June 2016.

ETH Zurich and the SWITCH foundation have decided to launch the Safe Exam Browser Consortium.

As of now, more than 600 eBooks on topics such as Windows, Office, CAD, image processing or programming can be downloaded as PDFs.

The study programme Science in Perspective enables students at ETH Zurich to develop new perspectives on their core subjects’ scientific and technological issues.

With its holdings of around 300 objects, the historical collection of instruments from the former Eidgenössische Sternwarte Zurich is now available online on E-Pics.  

In early June, Peter Widmayer led his last University Assembly meeting as president. As a token of appreciation for his services, the University Assembly presented the avid gardener with a fig tree.

At a public event of the Latsis Symposium 2016 at ETH Zurich on 29 June 2016, ETH members and the public will have the chance to discuss the opportunities and risks of personalised medicine with researchers from ETH and the University of Zurich.

ETH Zurich encourages students to become more engaged in the teaching and learning process. The Student Innovedum project will enable students to transform their ideas into reality.