More than 20 organisations support this initiative, including the ETH Board. A call is being made to parliamentarians to ensure that the necessary funding can be approved by December, as part of the Bilateral Agreements III package.
On 26 August, the Federal Council elected environmental scientist Tobias Walser to the ETH Board as a delegate of the university assemblies of ETH Zurich and EPFL.
At its meeting of 15/16 July 2026 and upon application of the President of ETH Zurich, Professor Joël Mesot, and the President of EPFL, Professor Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, the ETH Board appointed a total of seven women and three men as professors and awarded the title of professor to one individual and the title of Professor of Practice to one individual.
FIT for the future: the organisational development of the ETH Domain
The ETH Board is currently working on the organisational development of the ETH Domain in order to make it fit for the future and identify its optimal organisation and structure. This should ensure that the ETH Domain is better equipped for the urgent challenges now facing it as well as those that lie further ahead.
Annual Report 2025
Within the scope of its obligation to report annually to the Confederation, the ETH Board illuminates various aspects of the development of the ETH Domain in its annual report. This report is based on the Federal Council’s strategic objectives and is submitted to the Federal Council.