Industrial Internship in India
Challenging Industrial Internship in India at Achira Labs Before starting this internship, my feelings were a mixture of excitement and fear. Excited to get the chance to...
Student Exchange Staff visits Seville for Important Networking
Seville, mid-September 36 degrees (about 97 Fahrenheit), and the sun is beating down from a cloudless sky. Unfortunately, we are not here to sit in the shade and drink Sa...
A New Symbol for San Jose, Silicon Valley
We had a wonderful experience in the capital of the Silicon Valley. As the culmination of a collaborative Bachelor thesis project between ETH Zurich and the San Jose Ligh...
How do Cocoa Farmers become Chocolate Entrepreneurs?
For more than six months now, I have been living and working with a community of small cocoa producers in a remote area of the Peruvian Amazon. This unique experience in ...
Discover how grad student Yassine pitches to Denmark’s Crown Princess Mary
My days at the UNLEASH Innovation Program were truly mind blowing! I formed a team with two amazing colleagues, received two awards, and pitched our global health idea ...
3 SCIENCE COMMUNICATION TRENDS FROM THE US WEST COAST
In an era of fake news and increasing science scepticism, science communications becomes more important than ever. What can we as researchers and science communicators do...
Tackling Youth Unemployment in Kosovo
Apart from the stereotypes, most Swiss people probably don’t know very much about Kosovo and it’s challenging path towards social and economical stability. Yet th...
Entrepreneurs from all over the Globe in South Korea
This summer, Sarah Massabni and I had the privilege of traveling to South Korea for the Global Entrepreneurship Camp, a 10-day program organized at the Korean Institute o...
Energy in Singapore
Did you know that ETH Zürich has an office in Singapore? And it’s ETH’s only research centre outside of Switzerland! I got the opportunity to spend 4 months in this ...
Zurich or Shanghai? Commuting between East and West
Every time I come back to Zürich I feel truly happy. I enjoy breathing the fresh air, swimming in the lake, watching trams passing by, or enjoying the sunset on the Poly...
Engineering for Development in Cape Town
Towards a climate of change Do you know the twisting feeling in your stomach when venturing into the unknown? That mixture between excitement and uneasiness? That is exac...
My Tesla Adventure in Central Asia
An Electric Car Crossing the Arteries of Oil The skeptics remained unconvinced: An electric car in Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, or even Iran, wouldn’t that be a notch ...