Heilbronn News 1/25 - Foundation for the ETH Campus in place
The incorporation of a non-profit organization is official, the managing director Michele de Lorenzi has started work in Heilbronn, and the Associate Vice President for The ETH Zürich Campus Heilbronn Boris Zürcher has been driving the project forward in Zurich since the beginning of the year.
Foundation in place
The incorporation of the non-profit limited liability company was completed in the old year, just before Christmas. “ETH Zurich Campus Heilbronn gGmbH” was entered in the commercial register at Stuttgart Local Court on December 19, 2024.
This marked the culmination of extensive preparatory work involving ETH members from various departments and external experts. The establishment of a campus in Germany raised many new questions for ETH Zurich as a Swiss university under public law.
With the entry in the commercial register, the foundation was laid for the Managing Director of the ETH Zurich Campus Heilbronn, Dr. Michele De Lorenzi, to take up his duties on site.
Many ETH Zurich members are involved in the establishment of the ETH Zurich Campus Heilbronn. And many more are interested in what is happening on the ETH campus in Germany. In the Heilbronn News on internal news, we will report at irregular intervals on project milestones and activities in connection with the new campus.
Employee number 1 has started work in Heilbronn
Michele De Lorenzi was appointed Managing Director of the Heilbronn campus in summer 2024. He worked at the CSCS supercomputer center in Lugano for 15 years, most recently as Vice Director. On January 1, 2025, he became the first ETH Zurich employee to start his new job in Heilbronn.
In the following months, he will focus in particular on setting up the office in Heilbronn, as well as seeking contact with the political and social authorities in Heilbronn and Baden-Württemberg. He will also recruit local employees for the development of the Heilbronn campus.
Michele De Lorenzi has initially moved into temporary offices in the “Kleiner Kiesel” building. In a year's time, ETH Zurich will move into the HIP Tower before moving into its permanent buildings in 2030.
Two two-part building complexes are planned on the south-eastern edge of the new Bildungscampus West, in the immediate vicinity of the Technical University of Munich, the Fraunhofer Heilbronn Research and Innovation Centers and the Ferdinand Steinbeis Institute.
Boris Zürcher starts as delegate for the Heilbronn campus in Zurich
With Boris Zürcher, who joined our university at the beginning of the year as Associate Vice President for the ETH Zurich Campus Heilbronn, the project has also been given a face in Zurich.
Boris Zürcher was Director of Labor at the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) from 2013 to the end of 2024. Prior to this, the doctor of economics was Director and Chief Economist at BAKeconomics, Vice Director and Chief Economist at Avenir Suisse, economic policy advisor to Federal Councillors Pascal Couchepin, Joseph Deiss and Doris Leuthard, as well as Head of Labor Market Policy at SECO. He has also been a lecturer at the Institute of Economics at the University of Bern since 2003.
Together with his team, Boris Zürcher is responsible for setting up the ETH Zurich Campus Heilbronn.
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