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In the last few weeks, the University Assembly (UA) has expressed its opinion to the Executive Board and the ETH Board on a number of subjects.

Forty-nine young professionals have passed their final apprenticeship exams. As part of the 2019 apprentice graduation ceremony, they celebrated completing their vocational training at ETH Zurich on Thursday.

Visit ETH Zurich all year round on a wide variety of public tours.

At its last meeting the Executive Board decided to strengthen the ombudspersons and specialist support units, setting up more contact points and advisory services. It also discussed the feedback from the consultation process for the development of the doctoral programme, and passed a corresponding package of measures with a number of changes.

Access to geodata for universities

Yesterday, ETH Zurich and the team of architects, building planners and construction managers involved in the project attended the ground-breaking ceremony for the HIF renovation and extension project at ÍþÁ®Ï£¶ûÌåÓýAPP_ÍþÁ®Ï£¶ûÖÐÎÄÍøÕ¾-ÏÂÔØÍøÖ· H?nggerberg. The event marks the beginning of the upgrade and renovation project at one of the largest building complexes on the campus. It will also be the home of the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering.

The latest version of the ETH app offers a new function: members of ETH can now easily report damage from their smartphone and contribute to quickly resolving problems.

ETH Zurich has been given top marks for its structures and processes in the Transition Review. Other topics in this issue of News from the Executive Board: making better use of the lecture halls; incremental increases in parking fees to reach market levels; and an expansion of Psychological Counselling Service.

To commemorate its tenth birthday, ETH Zurich¡¯s DOI Desk invites you to attend a one-day event on the topic of ¡°Persistent Identifiers in Research¡±.

ETH Zurich has received the SAP Innovation Award 2018 for its ¡°refine¡± IT project.