Degree programmes and departments
With PAKETH, the programme regulations will be structurally harmonised and streamlined. All Bachelor's and Master's degree regulations will be updated for introduction in the Autumn Semester 2027.
Here you will find offers from the Rectorate to support you during the implementation phase of PAKETH:
Develop qualification profiles:
You can find advice and support for degree programs regarding the development or revision of qualification profiles on the Advisory Services page, as well as by contacting the UTL contact persons for curriculum development for programme responsibles.
Programme regulations:
The Educational Legislation team (AkD) provides counselling on the programme regulations and supplies templates for the new programme regulations - including instructions for use and general factsheets on frequently asked questions relating to the organisation of the degree programmes. Programme responsibles can find these documents in an external page external folder with restricted access.
The departments are very welcome to directly by email to arrange meetings to discuss questions relating to the structure of degree programmes and other aspects of the programme regulations.
Implement teaching optimisation:
There is a lot of potential to revise your own degree programme in line with PAKETH in the coordination between the individual courses within one’s degree programme.
The two new factsheets "external page Competence orientation"* and "external page From content to competence"* show procedures for this and also serve as a basis for consultations by UTL.
Workload planning and monitoring:
How can degree programmes ensure that workload peaks are avoided during the semester?
UTL offers counselling, analyses and support in the coordination between degree programmes and lecturers. You can find more information in the teaching sub-project.
- Here you will find support for the organisation of service teaching.
- Curriculum Information Tool for programme responsibles.
- UTL Contact persons for curriculum development for programme responsibles.
Current status of the project
21 July 2026
Team & Availability
- The PAKETH Sub-Projects Administration & Operations (Patricia Moser), Education Legislation (Franziska Moll), and the Planning and Academic Support Processes unit within Academic Services (AkD) (Kornel Le Grand) work closely together as the AkD PAKETH Team to coordinate their activities in the implementation of PAKETH.
- Since May 2026, Vaida Menezes has been supporting the team in project coordination and administration. In her cross-functional role, she facilitates collaboration across different areas, coordinates joint activities, advances the development of project documentation, and helps establish a central knowledge base.
- A central email address has been set up for the AkD PAKETH Team. Going forward, it will serve as the shared point of contact for questions and enquiries. Questions related to PAKETH that concern the AkD PAKETH Team can now be sent to . The previous email address, , has therefore been discontinued.
- Draft versions of programme regulations and their admission appendices should continue to be sent to . Please note that, depending on the nature of your enquiry, additional questions may be forwarded to , where they will be handled.
Current Focus Areas
- Alongside organisational work, the substantive preparations for the implementation of PAKETH are continuing. The team's current priorities include the transition of students to the new regulations, the future representation of study pathways, and the alignment of requirements with various internal stakeholders, in particular with the Digital Campus Academic Support Processes team.
Deadlines & Timeline for Admission Appendices
- The departments have been informed that the Education Legislation Office will not be able to finalise all admission appendices for Master's degree programmes before the first meetings of the Teaching Commissions and Department Conferences in the Autumn Semester 2026. The remaining appendices should, where possible, be completed by the second meetings of the Teaching Commissions and Department Conferences.
- The overall project timeline remains unaffected. The admission appendices will be published together with the programme regulations and the new ordinances in summer 2027. Degree programmes that have not yet submitted their admission appendix for review are kindly asked to do so as soon as possible.
- Older status messages sup-project.
- Current status of the overall PAKETH project.
Relevant Documents in Use
protected page PAKETH Manual Version 1.3 (Updated version 19 March 2026) Concept and implementation guidelines of the Rectorate.
Supporting working documents in the implementation phase:
How to? …Download write a Qualification Profile (PDF, 526 KB).
external page Folder with restricted access*: Factsheets, templates for programme regulations and other working documents for the implementation of PAKETH.
* Authorised: Directors of Studies, study programme coordinators, Educational Developers (LSP), employees in departments, administration and operations, access.
“Now that all departments are thinking about their degree programmes at the same time and exchanging ideas with each other via PAKETH, the courage to make big changes is growing.”Dr Urs Brändle, sub-project manager of degree programmes PAKETH, UTL
Procedure and timelines
For degree programmes, the focus is currently on classifying the learning content of the degree programme into categories. The AkD offers support on the legal basis, programme structure and (teaching) application, while UTL provides support on content and didactics.
The qualification profile serves as a framework for the content of this process. If content adjustments are planned for the assigning to the categories, the qualification profile should be revised in advance.
The programme regulations and all annexes (including the qualification profile) must be finally approved by the Department Conferences (DK) by the end of Spring Semester 2026 at the latest.
Best practice: The mapping of the qualification profile in modules starts with its revision. The critical factor is the interplay between content delivery and workload for everyone.
PAKETH Expertise and Networking
Be inspired and expand your working network at PAKETH-related events:
Listen to PAKETH – Podcast “Inside PAKETH”
Tune in now and gain fresh insights: an overview of all episodes is available on the website.
Discuss PAKETH – Online events “Refresh Teaching”
Regular professional exchange and personal networking at practice-oriented events over the lunch break, offering fresh impulses for teaching – Refresh Teaching.
Discover PAKETH – UTL “Booster Workshops”
The easiest way to get to know PAKETH and adapt it to your own context. Find all UTL workshops for your didactic further education on the Booster website.
Please submit study regulations and appendices for admission well in advance
The Education Legislation Office kindly reminds all departments to continue submitting programme regulations (including Master's programme regulations) and admission appendices. The review process by the Education Legislation team takes some time. Due to the current high volume of incoming requests, processing is taking slightly longer than usual. Thank you for your cooperation.
Equivalency Table: Modalities for Academic Services (AkD) in Progress
Regarding the transfer of students (equivalency table), Academic Service is currently working out the modalities and will actively reach out to the schools in due course. We appreciate your patience.
Good to know: Support for qualification profiles
If you have any questions regarding qualification profiles, UTL's ASP-Club is here to help.
Keeping track of coordination – with the Curriculum Information Tool (CIT)
Where multiple degree programmes intersect, coordination becomes crucial. The CIT makes these interfaces visible: you can now highlight course units attended by students from several degree programmes – or, if preferred, only compulsory courses. This allows you to identify early on where changes require particular coordination.
New feature in the current version
- Previously, it was already possible to see which learning units within a curriculum are offered by other departments and which of our own learning units are part of the curricula of other degree programs.
- With this update, you can now also highlight all learning units attended by students from more than two different degree programs with a single click. Optionally, this selection can be limited to required courses.
- These learning units often require increased coordination if their content or the semester in which they are offered changes.
Data informed curriculum support
- The Curriculum Information Tool (CIT) supports you in developing evidence-based curricula: service courses, interdependencies and highly popular course units become transparent.
- This new feature specifically enhances this view where coordination is crucial – for well-founded decisions and robust degree programmes.
Visit the CIT page if you would like to map your degree programme now and benefit from the new features. The CIT support team will assist you with your first steps.
Valuable diversity at ETH in the PAKETH process: At the Study Conference (Stuko), the Directors of Studies from D-MAVT and D-ITET shared their experiences of curriculum development and workload planning for PAKETH.
The exchange clearly demonstrated how both departments are using the structural reform to further develop existing curricula in a targeted manner.
ITET is focusing on the new semester symmetry to improve workload planning and the integration of essential fundamentals of electrical engineering, whilst MAVT is systematically addressing ‘pain points’ from the 2022 reform and collecting workload data as part of an Innovedum project.
The panel discussion highlighted just how differently the degree programmes are shaping their reform processes – and how valuable this diversity is for ETH.
If you would like to reflect on your own processes, optimise structures or undertake a well-founded review of workload planning, you will find your UTL contacts for assistance and support on the contact page.
We would be happy to provide you with information about our advisory services, data analyses and our range of courses, and we look forward to working with you.
In the article of Internal News, Rector Prof. Günther Dissertori explains the reasons for postponing the introduction. He also discusses the reasons behind the decision to give PAKETH, Digital Campus and all those involved more time to ensure quality and security during implementation.
The timetables for Digital Campus and the PAKETH sub-projects are currently undergoing a thorough review. The programme regulations already provide clarity regarding the new timings:
- The programme regulations, including all appendices, will be adopted at the latest at the first department conference (DK) of the 2026 autumn semester (see illustration above).
- This also includes the appendix equivalence table, which provides a summary of the transition.
- A detailed version of the equivalence table only needs to be available in December 2026 – this is used for the automated transfer from the old to the new system.
Communication to students: The communication concept, including schedules, is currently being revised. The website for students has been updated.
- Newsletter sent to students: Thursday, 22 January 2026, in the afternoon.
We will provide further information on the implications of the postponed launch date for Digital Campus and PAKETH in a later edition of the PAKETH newsletter.
The PAKETH team is available to respond to your feedback and support requests via .
Submit Innovedum PAKETH project proposals by 2 March: The timing for funding contributions for innovative pilot projects in teaching remains unchanged. With an Innovedum teaching project PAKETH Edition, you can pilot innovative solutions within degree programmes that are adapted in the context of PAKETH.
The adjusted schedules for Digital Campus and PAKETH may now give you an opportunity to develop an innovative idea into a pilot project in your degree programme.
The Innovedum team looks forward to hearing from you via . Go directly to the project application.
Aligning modules with subject-specific competencies: examples from D-BAUG and D-EAPS: How can technical skills be systematically developed and anchored in the curriculum from the commencement of studies?
In the online event Refresh Teaching on 11 December, lecturers from various departments present their practical approaches to effectively combining computational competencies through aligned learning paths.
Learn about approaches to competence-oriented curriculum planning and how the CodeExpert programming environment supports the development of problem-solving skills in students as early as their first semester.
The presentations and videos from the event provide concrete ideas for planning and further developing your own range of study programmes.
No change in timing: Regulations to be finalised by the end of spring semester 2026. It is slowly getting cold outside, and in many degree programmes, the channels are buzzing hot with ideas on how to best implement PAKETH.
The timing for this is still correct: what needs to be included in the programme regulations must be finalised by the end of the 2026 spring semester. The content can be finalised at a later date. The corresponding workshop on PAKETH Day will provide further impetus for both endeavours.
Anyone who would like support and brainstorming before PAKETH Day is welcome to contact us at any time by email at: . We look forward to hearing from you.
New Update: The Curriculum Information Tool or CIT (formerly Mapping Tool) for degree programmes has been updated.
Philip Barth (Curriculum Development Team UTL) and Urs Brändle (Coordinator Computational Competencies Initiative, Sub-project Manager Degree Programmes PAKETH) use the example of computational competencies to show how the new features can be used to visualise competence development and learning paths in degree programmes.
You can find external page the video-recording of the entire conversation here. You can select individual topics in the chapter overview (e.g. external page the visualisation of a learning path) or see for yourself that counselling sessions with the UTL can certainly contain external page humorous episodes.
The templates for the Bachelor's and Master's programme regulations, as well as the appendices on direct doctorates and the equivalence table, have
been slightly revised.
The changes are listed in the working document ‘Use of templates for programme regulations and appendices’. You can now download these from the folder containing the working documents for PAKETH.
Important note: You can continue to use the templates you have already filled out as working documents. The Education Legislation Team will of course make the necessary adjustments for you in accordance with the changes mentioned above. The updates to the documents should not result in any additional work for you.
The template for the appendix on admission will be sent shortly to each degree programme with certain fields already filled in, and will then serve as your working document.
You are welcome to contact the Education Legislation Team at any time with your working documents by email: . We will be happy to help you with the revision process for internal committees.
** Access to the documents is restricted to Director of Studies, study programme coordinators, LSPs, employees in departments, administration and operations. Please request access by E-Mail to: .
There are new factsheets - already proven useful - that support the competence-oriented development of your degree programmes: "external page Competence Orientation (PAKETH)"* and "external page From Content to Competence"*.
The video "Qualification Profiles in Action" from the last Refresh Teaching shows how D-USYS and D-EAPS use such procedures as described in the factsheets.
PAKETH now also does podcast. Under the title Inside PAKETH, we share know-how and experiences from the ongoing reform process.
In the first episode, Christian Sailer from D-BAUG talks about how feedback from students and alumni helps to coordinate service teaching under PAKETH.
Here you can find the external page documents* (questionnaire and process description) that D-BAUG used in this process.
The fit between service and follow-up courses is currently being reviewed in several degree programmes.
The video from Refresh Teaching Event on 26 June will provide an overview of the selected procedures.
The Legislation team provides support with questions on study structures, the legal framework, mapping in the teaching applications and the use of the study regulations templates.
UTL provides support for adaptations to qualification profiles,
competence-oriented planning of the courses at degree programme level
and alignment of service teaching.
The contact list of UTL specialists for curriculum development has been published on the PAKETH contact page.
The consultation period for submissions on the concept adjustment has expired and the results have been summarised in a protected page report.
The decisions of the PAKETH steering group on the open implementation decisions were communicated to the Stuko on 6 March 2025.
Here you can find the review of the PAKETH teaching retreat on 15 January 2025.
protected page Download Keynote Jan Vermant.
protected page Download Keynote Core Team PAKETH.
You can look up the development of the project to date in detail on the PAKETH Context page.
We also recommend the video by Rector Günther Dissertori about PAKETH.
If you would like to be kept up to date on how PAKETH is progressing, please subscribe to our PAKETH-Newsletter.
Contacts and participation
On the contact page you will find all contact persons and the opportunity to enter into dialogue with the PAKETH Team.
Support for PAKETH Teaching Projects
The ETH Innovedum Fund can support teaching innovations that are launched in connection with PAKETH.
Procedure and criteria on the Innovedum website.