Calls for Student Challenges, Prizes, Scholarships, and Fellowships
On this web page, you can find various information from internal and external sources regarding challenges, prizes, scholarships, fellowships, and summer schools for D-ITET students. Some of the content is only available in German.
The James Dyson Award is part of James Dyson's wider commitment to encouraging budding engineers and designers to apply their knowledge and discover new ways to improve lives through technology. Inventions that could make a real difference to people's lives are in demand. Since its inception in 2005, the James Dyson Award has supported more than 400 inventions with prize money totalling £1 million.
Task: Design something that solves a problem. This problem can be a nuisance that we all face in our daily lives or a global problem. The important thing is that the solution is effective and demonstrates thoughtful design thinking. Unlike other competitions, participants are given full autonomy over their intellectual property.
Procedure: All entries will be judged at national level by a panel of external judges and a Dyson engineer. One national winning project and two national runner-up projects will be selected in each of the 28 participating countries. From these, a jury of Dyson engineers will select a top 20 shortlist. These 20 projects will then be reviewed by Sir James Dyson, who will select the winning projects at international level.
Prize money: The winners selected by Sir James Dyson at international level will each receive prize money of €36,000 (£30,000).
More information: external page James Dyson Award
Latsis Symposium 2025 - Call for Contributions
Are you a doctoral or postdoctoral researcher conducting research that supports sustainable development or humanitarian action in low- or middle-income countries? Join the Latsis Symposium and present your research in a short presentation and discuss it with other researchers and decision-makers in a poster session.
- Application Process: Download and complete the application form found on our website. Upload the completed application form and the scientific paper your poster will be based on.
- Application Deadline: 20 May 2025.
Download Latsis Symposium 2025 Call for Contributions (PDF, 88 KB)
«Best Thesis Award 2025 – Power Engineering Transmission»
The Swissmem Environmental Engineering Industry Sector awards the “Best Thesis Award” for outstanding Bachelor's or Master's theses related to the field of “power engineering transmission”.
The Award comes with prize money of CHF 3,000 (1st prize), CHF 2,000 (2nd prize) and CHF 1,000 (3rd prize). The call for proposals is aimed at future graduates of universities/federal institutes of technology and universities of applied sciences who will be submitting their written thesis in this calendar year and before the submission deadline.
- Closing date for applications: 8 August 2025
- Submission deadline: 12 September 2025 (on approval)
Further information:
Download Best Thesis Award 2025 (PDF, 163 KB)
Starting in 2025, the Center for Project-Based Learning (PBL) will serve as a key hub for external page Prototypes for Humanit (P4H) reinforcing ETH’s commitment to innovation with real-world impact. This initiative will foster groundbreaking prototypes addressing global challenges, leveraging ETH’s expertise in wearable positioning systems, Edge AI, and smart sensor technology. The initiative supports students’ projects addressing some of our most pressing global social and environmental challenges.
By acting as a central node for collaboration, PBL will support teams in developing forward-thinking solutions that bridge technology and humanitarian action.
P4H, through the collaboration with PBL, seeks to benefit from its world-leading expertise in developing innovations in areas such as AI and IoT, as well as continue to grow the applications from innovators in these areas from both ETH and other leading global academic institutions.
More information of the initiative: external page https://www.prototypesforhumanity.com/apply-now-2025/
The PBL is always looking for motivated students to join our ambitious projects in cutting-edge research areas, including embedded systems, AI at the edge, intelligent sensing, and energy-efficient computing. If you are passionate about innovation and eager to work on impactful real-world applications, we encourage you to get in touch.
To receive support from PBL, please send an email to Michele Magno () and Sibylle Hochuli () with a brief introduction of the project and your CV.
Paul Baran Young Scholars
The Marconi Society is proud to honor the emerging innovators in information and communications technology that are creating the connected world of the future and bringing the opportunities of the network to everyone. Nominations for the Paul Baran Young Scholars are accepted through June 15, 2025.
Benefits:
- Entry into a fellowship of some of the most influential inventors of our time. Young Scholars meet and network with the pioneers of our connected world.
- Global exposure and recognition for their work, which has led to critical collaborations and opportunities for past Young Scholars.
- Celebration at our Marconi Awards Gala in November, in Los Angeles, CA. A $5,000 stipend to support their important work.
Women’s Europe Datathon
Hosted by Citadel and Citadel Securities in partnership with external page Correlation One, this event is open to top students across Europe who identify as women.
Our Datathons challenge students from the world's best universities to tackle real-world social challenges in topics such as urban traffic, renewable energy, and education while working through large and complex datasets. Women’s Datathon is a national data science competition, bigger and more exciting than our regional events! Check out this video from our first-ever North America Women’s Datathon event in Miami.
When: May 12-19
Where: Virtual
Who: Undergraduate and graduate students who identify as women
Prizes: $15,000USD + Exclusive recruiting opportunities with Citadel and Citadel Securities APPLY FOR WOMEN'S EUROPE DATATHON
Admissions are made on a rolling basis, so I encourage you to apply now! Please don't hesitate to reach out to us at if you have any questions. We look forward to receiving your application.
Ausschreibung für offene Ph.D. Stellen in Cambridge in Künstliche Intelligenz
Hyperloop-Seminare in Zusammenarbeit mit Swissloop
Die external page EuroTube Foundation ist ein vom Bund anerkanntes Forschungsinstitut, das sich auf die Erforschung von Vakuumtransport-Technologien spezialisiert hat. Seit 2020 organisieren wir in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Forschungsprojekt Swissloop der ETH Zürich sogenannte Hyperloop-Seminare, deren Ziel es ist, Wissen über diese innovative Technologie zu verbreiten. Ein wichtiger Teil des Zielpublikums dieser Seminare sind Studierende und Absolventen.
Ziel dieser Seminare ist es, Studierenden die Möglichkeit zu bieten, Einblicke in die Hyperloop-Technologie zu gewinnen. Darüber hinaus bieten sie eine ausgezeichnete Gelegenheit, Kontakte zu Industriepartnern zu knüpfen und potenzielle Thesen und Projekte zu initiieren.
Every Monday, starting again
October 18-19h CET
for the zoom link to the seminar visit external page hyperloopseminar.org
ENHANCE Alliance educational opportunities
- Online and Winter School "Design of Measurement Systems in Integrated Programming Environments" at Gdansk University
- Online and Winter School "Microphone Array Project" at TU Berlin
- Online and Winter School "Data Literacy - Healthcare" at WUT
To the website: ENHANCE educational opportunities
SensUs
SensUs is an annual international student competition on biosensors for health. By involving students, industry, and health partners we strive to accelerate the development of biosensors for better healthcare.
Students form all over the world compete to make biosensors. Each university will be presented by a multidisciplinary team of students.
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external page Bewerbungstrainings der Universität Zürich für Studierende und Doktorierende
