Meet the Talent 2019
11.04.2019 – At this year’s Meet the Talent event, more than 150 donors conversed with students supported through the Excellence Scholarship and Opportunity Programme (ESOP).
Outstanding talents, bright ideas
Pioneers & Innovators: bringing together benefactors and beneficiaries
21.03.2019 – The Pioneer Fellowship programme is proving effective: over the past eight years, young scientists at ETH Zurich have established over 50 spin-offs, successfully transforming themselves from researchers into entrepreneurs.
Forbes “30 Under 30 Europe”: Three Pioneer Fellows are on board
15.02.2019 – Since 2006, the business magazine Forbes annually selects the most influential personalities under 30 years of age. In 2019, three Pioneer Fellows from ETH Zurich are represented in the “Science & Healthcare” category. The Pioneer Fellowship Programme supports them on their way to entrepreneurship.
Sustainable concrete – Pioneer Fellow Gnanli Landrou makes it possible
11.02.2019 – When 16 year old Gnanli Landrou travelled from Togo to France to stay with family friends, he didn’t bring much more than an idea and scientific talent. Thanks to his host family, Landrou was able to attend school and with the help of a teacher, quickly caught up on two years’ worth of missed… Read more »
Pioneer Fellows once again strongly represented among best Swiss startups
10.9.2018 – Among the Top 100 Swiss Startups 26 ETH spin offs can be found this year, including 11 Pioneer Fellows. Each year 100 investors and experts pick the 100 most innovative and promising startups from 100’000 young entrepreneurs. The startups have to be less than five years old. At the award ceremony organised by Venturelab… Read more »
Pioneer Fellows win W.A. de Vigier Award 2018
31. May 2018 – Vincent R.J. Martinez and Luca Hirt and their ETH Zurich Spin-off nanoleq are one of the winners of the W.A. de Vigier Award 2018.
Meet the Talent 2018
20.04.2018 – At this week’s Meet the Talent event, donors to the Excellence Scholarship and Opportunity Programme met with recipients to learn more about their research projects and directly see the effect of their support.
Visit to SIX for Excellence Scholars
04.01.2018 – A visit to SIX organised at the FinTech Incubator & Accelerator F10 gave around thirty Excellence Scholars an opportunity to find out more about Switzerland’s financial market infrastructure.
Avina Foundation supports ETH Week
20.09.2017 – Once a year, just before the beginning of the Autumn Semester, ETH Week is on: An open, innovative course fostering critical thinking and creativity across disciplines. From September 10 to 15, 2017, a full 180 bachelor, master and exchange students tackled difficult tasks and challenges to do with “Manufacturing the Future” and presented… Read more »
Green Leaves Education Foundation supports talented Master students
11.09.2017 – The Green Leaves Education Foundation (GLEF) fosters education projects around the world and supports financially underprivileged pupils and students from developing countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. The foundation now supports the “Excellence Scholarship & Opportunity Programme” (ESOP) and thus secures that two students from the global South can enrol for a… Read more »