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

‘The keys to your future’: under this motto, 51 young professionals from ETH Zurich celebrated the successful completion of their vocational training on 12 July 2024 - and thus also their entry into the professional world of the future.

Group photo of the young professionals
This year's apprenticeship graduates. (All photographs: Leandra Wüthrich/ETH Zurich)

‘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.

Pictures of the ceremony

ETH Zurich’s 2024 vocational training graduates

Operational maintenance specialist

  • Kerim Erdogan
  • Rafael Meier
  • Sham Weldegergish

Office administrator

  • Ana Djordjevic
  • Kassim Al-Amari

Electronics technician

  • Florian Adrian Züger
  • Iven Alex Nufer
  • Jannis Nicola Bader
  • Jonas Simon Botzenhardt
  • Pius Quirin Leserf
  • Robert Paulo Früh 
  • Valentin Samuel Hager

Information and documentation specialist

  • Olisa Jashanica

Interactive media designer

  • Monika Lydia Hanke

Computer Scientist Application Development

  • Fynn Westerath
  • Nico Laurin Menzi

Computer scientist platform development

  • Alessandro Iannelli
  • David Weisstanner
  • Justin Barthel
  • Kirthikan Ravishangar
  • Layne Jamie Pletscher

Design engineer

  • Paul Sebastian Dittmar

Business administrator

  • Adelisa Hafizovic
  • Chiara Oprandi
  • Lejla Mustafi
  • Mihailo Djuric
  • Minh Ky Chu
  • Nehir Açikgöz
  • Seraina Manni
  • Robin Marc Bosshard

Laboratory technician, specialising in biology

  • Afnan Zameli
  • Jamila Islam
  • Matilda Werner
  • Stojanka Mitrovic

Laboratory technician, specialising in chemistry

  • Aina Perappadan
  • Chiara la Rocca
  • Elena Löher
  • Lionel Gautier
  • Nereo Santoro

Logistician

  • Haris Sahinovic

Media technician

  • Anina Kunz
  • Elena Chiara Marta Stendardo

Physics laboratory technician

  • Leandro Noel Meyer
  • Lukas Lehmann
  • Nikola Rebac
  • Samira Spielmann
  • Samuele Ancona

Polymechanic

  • Denis Haxholli
  • Jeremy Brandon Klein
  • Marvin Kéet Giger
  • Odin Max Bär

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