2015

Quiet Christmas time at SusTec is not all that quiet. SusTec members organized two brilliant team events challenging the teams’ skills and courage. Of course both challenges were successfully managed.

On November 4th 2015, ETH’s Group for Sustainability and Technology together with ZHAW Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship and Impact Hub Zürich hosted the first Energy Startup Day at the Umweltarena Spreitenbach.

Fanny Frei, PhD candidate at SusTec, discusses the challenges that exist in relation to planning wind farms in Switzerland in her article recently published in “Aktuelle Technik”.

A recent study on biogas in Germany shows that technologies might be confronted with legitimacy problems even in later stages of development, after they have matured and expanded successfully.

From 2 to 3 December 2015 the 3rd International QCA Expert Workshop is going to take place at ETH Zurich.

Four researchers from SusTec and the Energy Politics Group (EPG) have examined determinants of knowledge spillovers within and across technologies.

How self-consumption can ensure PV's profitability when no subsidies are present

The perfect opportunity to find out, what chances arise from startups to incumbment companies in the Swiss energy and cleantech sector.

The recent issue of Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions features one article and four viewpoints on conceptual advancements of the technological innovation systems (TIS) framework. Researchers at SusTec have contributed to three of these.

We say "hats off" and present Dr. Tillmann Lang with his doctoral cap!

Fanny Frei, PhD candidate at SusTec, discusses the challenges that exist in relation to planning wind farms in Switzerland.  

In August 2015, Ann-Kristin Zobel joined SusTech as a senior researcher. Ann-Kristin brings in significant academic expertise on innovation ecosystems in the renewable energies sector.

From 2 to 3 December 2015 the 3rd International QCA Expert Workshop is going to take place at ETH Zurich. The workshop will bring together junior and senior QCA experts from political sciences, sociology and management research to provide an opportunity for presenting research, exchanging ideas and establishing contacts.  

A small group of researchers from ten different countries spent five exciting days in the Swiss Alps for SusTec's annual scientific seminar on Sustainability and Technology.  

A team of students from SusTec's "Sustainability Start-Up Seminar" has been awarded this year's SSIA and are also the winners of the SSIA Audience Award.

Florian Naegele has completed his dissertation and received his doctoral degree after a successful examination last week. 

SusTec welcomes a new team member: Dr. Erik Jentges has joined to help in redesigning our flagship lecture on "Corporate Sustainability".

For the third consecutive year, a team of 14 SusTec and EPG members has finished the SOLA relay run in Zürich. 

A recent study by Jochen Markard, Marco Suter and Karin Ingold on coalitions and policy change in the Swiss energy transition is now available as a working paper.

Florian Naegele and Tillmann Lang, PhD candidates at SusTec, discuss findings from a recent research project on energy efficiency in buildings.

SusTec's senior researcher Johannes Meuer and co-authors Christian Rupietta and Uschi Backes-Gellner have written an article on different innovation systems in Swiss firms published in Research Policy.

The SusTec team congratulates Falko Paetzold on the completion and successful defense of his dissertation.

Fanny Frei, PhD candidate at SusTec, has written an article discussing the particularities in relation to the planning of wind farms in Switzerland.

On Sunday, March 8th, three group members made their debut as runners in the 42 kilometer's cross-country ski marathon in Engadin, Switzerland.

On February 1, Johannes Meuer, previously senior researcher at the Department of Business Administration of University of Zurich, joined the SusTec team to work on questions related to innovation in the energy sector.

A study on coalitions in the Swiss energy transition was presented by Jochen Markard at the SPRU Friday Seminar Series

The SusTec team congratulates Dr. Jörn Hünteler on a successful doctoral examination and on his doctoral degree.

As of February, Tobias Schmidt will leave SusTec and lead the new Energy Politics Group at ETH’s Department for Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (D-GESS)

SusTec researcher Annegret Stephan won the Best Presentation Award in the field of social sciences at the “Third International Education Forum on Environment and Energy Science” in Perth, Australia.