‘The keys to your future’: apprentice graduation ceremony 2024

‘With your successful completion of your vocational training, you hold a key in your hand that will enable you to fulfil your potential in life.’ Lukas Vonesch, Head of HR Consulting, welcomed the 51 ETH Zurich apprenticeship graduates at the 2024 apprentice graduation ceremony in the HCI building on the ETH Hönggerberg campus. After all, the guiding principle and aspiration of ETH's vocational training programme is to equip young people for the working world of the future.

Specialised training and personal development at the same time

In his speech, Ulrich Weidmann, Vice President for Infrastructure, emphasised that vocational training at ETH is valuable in many respects: ‘Your degree from us is valuable. Because it is not only a specialised training, but also a personal training - and there is a lot of ETH Zurich in it." Whether you are a businesswoman, laboratory technician or mediamatician: ‘I wish you that work and life are not opposites, but two sides of the same coin and thus a well-rounded thing,’ Ulrich Weidmann concluded his words to the graduates.

Thanks to the vocational trainers

Lukas Vonesch then addressed a few words to the parents, who were invited for the first time this year, and the vocational trainers. It is the commitment of the vocational trainers and supervisors that makes the high-quality training offered by ETH possible. Accordingly, they also deserve great thanks, which the audience expressed with appropriate applause. Before the well-deserved presentation of gifts, the proud graduates were honoured in a video - and the parents present very much appreciated being part of this moment.