January
International Student Summit on Climate: Call for Applications
In July 2020, Université Laval (in Quebec, Canada) will host an International Student Summit on Climate, aimed at young university students or recent graduates from across the world. A call for applications is being launched in January 2020 and the deadline to submit an application will be on February 12, 2020, at midnight (Quebec time, Canada).
50th St. Gallen Symposium FREEDOM REVISITED: Where aspirations get inspired
Compete in the Global Essay Competition, get the chance to win the St. Gallen Wings of Excellence Award and qualify for participation as a Leader of Tomorrow in the world's premier opportunity for intergenerational debates: The St. Gallen Symposium.
Call for projects: Apply to the Impact Collaboration Programme (ICP) 2020!
The Geneva Science-Policy Interface (GSPI) works at the intersection of science and policy, leveraging the synergy between actors of international Geneva and an extensive network of researchers to promote the development of effective practices. In 2020, the Impact Collaboration Programme (ICP) will give particular attention to projects that develop or apply methodologies with the aim to foster data-driven decision-making.
Science, Technology and Policy Alumni General Assembly and Alumni Talk
On the 4th of December 2019, the Science, Technology and Policy Alumni faculty group (STP Alumni) held its second event of the year and the first occurrence of its Alumni Talk series. The event was split into two parts, a small general assembly followed by the keynote from Alumnus Philippe Stadler Benz about his work at the Smart City Lab Basel. (Re-post from ETH Alumni News)
Tenants Should Drive Electric Vehicles Too, highlights an article published in the "Tages-Anzeiger"
The Swiss Daily Newspaper Tages-Anzeiger recently published an insightful article about the preliminary results of an ETH Zurich Mobility research project. According to these, electric mobility is not suitable for mass use yet. “Charging stations close to apartment facilities should change that,” says ETH Prof. Thomas Bernauer, who gave a talk together with various experts in the field of Electric Mobility on Tuesday, January 14, 2020.
Climate signals detected in global weather
Searched for and found: climate researchers can now detect the fingerprint of global warming in daily weather observations at the global scale. They are thus amending a long-established paradigm: weather is not climate – but climate change can now be detected in daily weather. (Re-post from ETH News)