Development
The SSC development team pushes for a more sustainable ETH at the institutional level, through working groups with specific focus on Strategic Planning, Education, Mobility, Food, Divestment, and Energy, Infrastructure and Biodiversity.
It closely works together with the VSETH HoPo team (university politics team) and units at ETH, such as ETH Sustainability and Campus Services. Members of the development team hold several delegate positions of VSETH, which makes them the elected representative of students for their project.
Our Projects
Strategic Planning
The Strategic Planning group is developing a strategy for a more sustainable University. Currently the main project of this group is writing a white paper that describes our visions, the status quo and brings ideas how to move towards more sustainable practices and shows good examples of other universities. Hence, this group is collaborating closely with all other working groups.
Education
The Education team is focused on how to make teaching and curricula more sustainability oriented, so that all students of ETH learn how to apply their field of study to sustainability. So that we are ready for a working environment, which is changing fast and where the importance of sustainability is rising.
Mobility
ETH is part of the Federal campaign “Exemplary Energy and Climate”. The Umweltkommission UmK has set “sustainable mobility” as the topic for 2023 and our Mobility group has been collaborating with Campus Services on an Action Week about Mobility in the beginning of May.
Food
The working group Food is pushing for more sustainable food options in the canteens and to remove financial barriers of a sustainable diet. Additionally, the group is working on establishing a small self-service shop, where people can buy local vegetables and other farm products on campus.
Divestment
Emissions caused through investment can be quite significant and it is important to only support businesses, where we can identify ourselves with. The Divestment team is dedicated to make ETHs investment more sustainable, both environmentally as well as socially, by divesting away from all fossil companies.
Energy, Infrastructure and Biodiversity
This group is focusing on more renewable energy supply like for example more solar energy on campus buildings. Another aspect is sustainability in new buildings, and to create more biodiversity on campus through several smaller projects.
A Look back at our Education Workshop
“How can we implement sustainability in all study programs at ETH Zürich?”
This was the leading question of our workshop moderated by Jan Linder and Emma Hilgenstock on the 2nd of March 2023. Together with representatives of six of our student associations, we discussed how we define sustainability, exchanged about our lighthouse projects/best practices and developed ideas for measures which we are going to realize in the coming semesters.
Since the ETH departments are responsible for implementing sustainability in their study programs, our first step is to create a working group with representatives of every student association to keep the exchange alive and make it easier to work on projects across the departments.
Subsequently, we are going to analyze every study program and find the subjects which match sustainability the best. In dialogue with the professors we will then try to either a) implement the topic in already existing lectures, b) make existing lectures available for other departments or c) create new lectures.
We are looking forward to working on these awesome projects together with them!
Thanks to the whole education team for this amazing work: Christian Rolli, Aude Champouillon, Johannes Dollinger
Come meet us! 
Our office is located at ETH CAB, office E14. Shoot us an email before-hand to make sure one of us will be there when you drop by.
We also host weekly office hours at the Student Project House (SPH, Zentrum) on Tuesdays from 1pm to 4pm. Next dates: March 7th, 14th, 21st, and 28th.