Essay contest: Vote now for your favourite entry
What does life at a hybrid university in the year 2040 look like? This is the question that members of the ETH community explored in this year’s Strategic Foresight Hub essay contest. Four entries have now been selected for public voting.
In spring 2022, the Strategic Foresight Hub invited the ETH community for the second time to describe their own vision of the future in a brief essay. This year’s essay contest focused on what higher education will look like in 2040. Sixteen time travellers submitted essays exploring this topic. Their vivid descriptions range from students living in decentralised hubs to robots controlled by thought to lectures that have to be held at night due to high outside temperatures.
Public voting now open
Now it’s your turn: the Strategic Foresight Hub team has shortlisted four of the essays for public voting. You can read them on the essay website and vote for your favourite until 1 July 2022. The essay chosen by the public plus another one selected by the Strategic Foresight Hub team will be further developed together with the authors and published as a booklet.
Last year’s winning essays
Last year, too, two of the submitted essays received an award: the Community’s Choice award went to Monitoring and Self-Optimization by Katja Abrahams-Lehner, and the Strategic Foresight Hub award went to The Future of Today is Happening Tomorrow by Elizabeth Rembelska. All essays shortlisted for last year’s public voting can be found on the website for the 2021 essay contest.
Choose your favourite essay
Vote for your favourite essay! You have until 1 July 2022. Click here to read the contenders.
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