ETH Zurich
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich
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| 2025 | ETH Zurich ranked 7th worldwide and 1st in Switzerland in the QS World University Rankings 2025. |
| 2025 | ETH Zurich ranked 1st in Europe in the QS Europe rankings 2025. |
| 2024 | A new Student Project House space is expected to open on the Hönggerberg campus. |
| 2024 | ETH Zurich ranked 11th worldwide and 1st in Switzerland in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2024. |
| March 2024 | Climate change findings reveal Zurich's temperature increases: July temperatures rose by 1.77°C and December temperatures increased by 3.41°C between historical and contemporary measurement periods |
| March 2024 | Climate analysis shows October precipitation increased by 1.45 mm, February snowfall decreased by 0.16 mm, and March sunshine duration reduced by 0.56 hours |
| 2023 | AMZ broke their previous world record, setting a new Guinness world record for fastest electric car acceleration at 0-100 km/h in 0.956 seconds. |
| 2023 | ETH Zurich ranked 20th worldwide and first in Switzerland in the Nature Index of academic institutions. |
| 2023 | ETH Zurich ranked 20th worldwide in the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2023. |
| March 2023 | Google Zurich workers staged a solidarity movement with the IT workers' union Syndicom to oppose lay-offs and salary cuts. |
| 2022 | Simone Brander was elected to the Civil Engineering and Waste Management Department of the Zurich City Council. |
| 2022 | Municipal Council elections held, resulting in a new distribution of seats across seven political parties: SP (37 seats), FDP (22 seats), GPS (18 seats), GLP (17 seats), SVP (14 seats), AL (8 seats), Mitte (6 seats), and EVP (3 seats). |
| March 2022 | Günther Dissertori becomes Rector of ETH Zurich |
| February 2022 | Sarah Springman concludes her term as Rector of ETH Zurich |
| February 13 2022 | The last regular election for the Zurich City Council was held, maintaining the current political composition. |
| 2021 | In fDi Magazine's 'Global Cities of the Future 2021/22' report, Zurich placed 16th in overall rankings and 2nd in the 'Mid-sized and small cities' category. |
| September 2021 | AMZ achieved a total of 13 overall victories in Formula Student Events, including a double victory at Formula Student Germany in both Electric and Driverless categories. |
| 2020 | Introduced a new fully electric eLink bus service as part of the ETH Link transportation system, providing free transportation for students, faculty, and affiliates between campuses. |
| 2020 | Andrea Töndury was appointed as Legal Counsel for the Zurich City Council. |
| January 2020 | Zürich Hauptbahnhof (Zürich HB) serves approximately 470,000 passengers and nearly 3,000 trains daily, establishing itself as the largest and busiest railway station in Switzerland and an important European railway hub. |
| 2019 | ARIS, the Swiss Academic Spaceflight Initiative from ETH Zurich, won 2nd place at the Spaceport America Cup in the 10,000 ft COTS Engine challenge, demonstrating their expertise in space-related technology development. |
| 2019 | Didier Queloz, associated with ETH Zurich, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, marking the most recent Nobel laureate connected to the institution. |
| 2019 | Approximately 70,000 people were studying at the 20 universities, colleges, and higher education institutions in Zurich. |
| 2019 | Revised timeline for the bike tunnel project, with the infrastructure development pushed back to at least this year, causing criticism from cycling advocacy groups like Pro Velo about the project's implementation. |
| 2019 | Mercer ranked Zurich among the ten most liveable cities in the world, alongside Geneva and Basel. |
| January 2019 | Joël Mesot becomes President of ETH Zurich |
| 2018 | ETH Zurich launched an electric bike sharing system connecting its two campuses, offering yearly subscriptions subsidized by the university and establishing rental stations on both campuses. |
| 2018 | Filippo Leutenegger was re-elected to the Education and Sports Department of the Zurich City Council. |
| 2018 | Karin Rykart was elected to the Security Department of the Zurich City Council. |
| 2018 | Andreas Hauri was elected to the Health and Environment Department of the Zurich City Council. |
| 2018 | Michael Baumer was elected to the Industrial Facilities Department of the Zurich City Council. |
| December 2018 | Lino Guzzella concludes his term as President of ETH Zurich |
| 2017 | AMZ became leader of the Formula Student world ranking and began dominating the autonomous driving category, winning all events attended with their autonomous car. |
| 2017 | ETH Zurich board approved the creation of the 'Student Project House' to encourage student projects and foster innovation, establishing initial makerspaces on the Hönggerberg campus and near the main building. |
| 2017 | Zurich was ranked as the 11th most competitive financial centre globally and second most competitive in Europe after London in the Global Financial Centres Index. |
| March 2017 | Archaeological discovery of a woman's burial from around 200 BC at the Kern school complex in Aussersihl, with well-preserved clothing and personal items. |
| 2016 | The Collegium Helveticum began a research period focused on digital societies, with fellows elected for a five-year term to collaborate on this subject. |
| 2016 | AMZ continued holding the Guinness world record for fastest electric car acceleration. |
| 2016 | ETH Zurich began consistently ranking in the top 10 universities worldwide. |
| 2016 | Planned institution of a bike tunnel beneath the main railway station tracks, which was originally scheduled for this year but was subsequently delayed. |
| 2015 | AMZ set the first Guinness world record for fastest acceleration of an electric car, achieving 0-100 km/h in 1.513 seconds with their car grimsel. |
| January 2015 | Sarah Springman begins her term as Rector of ETH Zurich |
| January 2015 | Lino Guzzella begins his term as President of ETH Zurich |
| 2014 | Filippo Leutenegger was elected to the Education and Sports Department of the Zurich City Council. |
| 2014 | Raphael Golta was elected to the Social Services Department of the Zurich City Council. |
| December 2014 | Lino Guzzella concludes his term as Rector of ETH Zurich |
| December 2014 | Ralph Eichler concludes his term as President of ETH Zurich |
| March 25 2014 | Zurich recorded its lowest temperature for March during the night/early morning. |
| March 20 2014 | Zurich experienced its highest temperature for the month of March, reaching a sunny afternoon peak. |
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