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On Friday, an era came to an end. For 20 years, Robert Perich helped to shape the development of ETH Zurich as Chief Financial Officer (CFO), restructured Finance & Controlling and developed it into an instrument of university management. It was important to him that the professorships and departments manage their funds autonomously and that ETH pursue a sustainable financial policy.

Stefan Spiegel will head up Finance and Controlling at ETH Zurich starting on 1 April 2023. The 52-year-old Swiss manager and finance expert boasts extensive leadership experience in state-affiliated firms and stock-listed companies.

More and more companies say that AI will be an important tool in the future. AI could also be useful for administration and management – but this journey has only just begun.

For ETH Zurich, lean and efficient resource and financial processes are essential. And now, for the transition of its personnel and finance databases to a state-of-the-art SAP HANA database, the university has been presented with the Innovation Award from software manufacturer SAP Switzerland.

ETH Zurich’s 2014 Annual Report is now available, featuring the most significant achievements, developments and events of the past year.

ETH Zurich has set up a data interface to the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) as part of a nationwide pilot project. In doing so, it has become the first university in Switzerland to receive information on new project funding in digital form as soon as it is approved.

Universities love to boast of their success in university rankings, but reducing the quality of an institution to a single ranking position does not do justice to the richness of the education and research landscape. U-Multirank is a new tool that aims to remedy this with its unique ‘multidimensional’ comparison of higher education institutions. Urs Hugentobler from Finance and Controlling at ETH Zurich explains how.