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The exhibition and event programme “Together for the Sustainable Development Goals” is back – this time at ETH Hönggerberg and the Student Project House. From 7-18 March, 2022, the exhibition raises awareness for the 17 goals and highlights selected contributions from the ETH community.

Since summer 2020, all members of the ETH community have had the option of using Microsoft Teams. While some people are already familiar with this platform for digital collaboration, others are perhaps just getting to grips with it. This article presents some helpful tips, especially for new users.

From 28 March to 1 April, the Informatiktage (Computer Science Days) will take place. The Department of Computer Science and ETH Zurich’s IT Services are once again involved as partners and offer a variety of events for school classes, teachers and interested students.

Do you remember? On Wednesday, March 18, 2020, the very last restaurant door at ETH was closed. This makes us, the members and guests of ETH, as well as our business partners, all the happier to be able to look positively into the future once again. The restaurant operators are very pleased to be able to welcome and serve their guests again in an almost familiar manner.

For all ETH Library locations regular opening hours apply from 17 February on and all services are available without restriction.

ETH Zurich is following the Federal Council’s lead and relaxing COVID restrictions: returning to the workplace, eliminating COVID certificate checks and scaling back the mask mandate. The university is adopting a more cautious stance in its relaxation of the rules, however.

Today’s tip is about certificates. Not the kind we have thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, but these are important, too: e-mail certificates are a way for you to make your daily communication more secure. Installation is quick and easy.

Would anonymising application processes increase equity and help ETH recruit the best talent? Or are gender, age and cultural background also important elements of a team’s success? Have your say on the matter in the next issue of life magazine!

The Citizen Science Knowledge Center is hosted by the SDU Library and is striving for a shift toward open science. Learn about the strategies and thinking behind it at the 17:15 Colloquium on 24 February 2022.

The University of Zurich and ETH Zurich have established the Wyss Zurich Foundation. With this step, the two Zurich universities aim to put the Wyss Zurich Translational Center, a joint accelerator for translational research specializing in regenerative medicine and robotics, on a stable long-term footing.