Budget cuts and lack of compensation for inflation present challenges for the ETH Domain
Berne/Zurich, 25.5.2023 - In view of the ETH Domain’s announced budget cuts, lack of compensation for inflation and exclusion from the EU’s “Horizon Europe” framework programme, the institutions of the ETH Domain face major challenges. At its meeting on 24/25 May, the ETH Board stated that the disadvantages of non-association with Horizon Europe cannot be compensated by means of national funding. The ETH Board awarded Thomas Zurbuchen, former Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at NASA, a professorship at ETH Zurich. The ETH Board launched the procedure for appointing the successor to the President of EPFL, Martin Vetterli.