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For the past four years, we have featured conversations with experts on current research topics in the ETH podcast. At the moment the podcast is taking an indefinite break. Until we launch a new podcast format, 43 exciting episodes are available for you to listen to. The alumni podcast "We Are ETH", a podcast series featuring stories from alumni and friends of ETH Zurich moved to its own channel: https://circle.ethz.ch/podcast/ -- ETH Zurich – Where the future begins! Our university for science and technology dates back to the year 1855, when the founders of modern-day Switzerland created it as a centre of innovation and knowledge. At ETH Zurich, students discover an ideal environment for independent thinking, researchers a climate which inspires top performance. Situated in the heart of Europe, yet forging connections all over the world, ETH Zurich is pioneering effective solutions to the global challenges of today and tomorrow. ETH Zurich has an excellent reputation in scientific circles: 21 Nobel laureates have studied, taught or researched here, and ETH regularly ranks as one of the world’s top universities.

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episode 52: Stick to Science


The exclusion of Switzerland from European Research

Horizon Europe is the European Union’s multi-billion-euro research programme. Until a year ago, Switzerland was an associated country. Scientists at Swiss universities could apply for prestigious grants from the European Research Council. Due to political differences, Switzerland is now largely excluded from this programme.

Robert-Jan Smits talks in no uncertain terms in the ETH Podcast. Smits is the former Director-General of Research and Innovation at the European Commission and wants research to reunite. Stick to Science is not only a petition that he and many others signed. He truly believes that this is the only way to advance research. ETH professor Andreas Wallraff and ERC starting grant recipient Katharina Gapp also talk about their frustration at the impact that politics is having on their research, namely quantum and neuroscience.

Read on interview with ETH president Joël Mesot on the "Stick to Science" initiative following this link as well as the Stick to Science campaign here.

Also, find out more about Professor Didier Queloz's call to stick to science here.

More on the ERC grants to be found in this news article: Are these the last ERC grants for ETH?

Check out the work of Katharina Gapp here and professor Andreas Wallraff here. as well as the Quantum Device Lab here.

Last, not least find out more about the ETH podcast producers Audiobande here.


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