The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH) is making the discussion around climate change and energy a priority with its ETH Climate Roundtable, Energy Week and Energy Now! initiative. Energy Now! was launched as a collaborative ETH initiative between the Energy Science Center (ESC) and the Institute of Science, Technology and Policy (ISTP) to deal with the potential energy crisis this winter. The initiative is a platform for those within ETH and external parties to develop new ideas, prototypes and solutions to address this imminent crisis. The first workshop will take place at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, 19 October.
The ETH Climate Roundtable 2022 will follow on Thursday, 20 October. It is being organized by the ESC and the ETH Center for Climate Systems Modeling (C2SM). According to ETH, the theme of the discussions and presentations is: “Weather extremes in climate change: are we ready?” It is free to take part, with registrations closing on 14 October.
The ETH Energy Week will take place from 5 to 9 December. It will begin with a symposium on Monday, 5 December. Representatives from science, politics and industry will present and discuss the latest findings from energy research, technology and policy.
On Tuesday, 6 December, the Energy Sprint event will be held at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa) in Dübendorf in the canton of Zurich. Focus Dialogues are scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday. The Energy Week will conclude with an Energy Panel including drinks reception at ETH’s main building on Friday, 9 December 2022.
For the first time, the event will be complemented by an energy exhibition in ETH’s main hall throughout the entire week. This will reportedly inform about Switzerland’s current and future energy system.
