The top 100 Swiss startups of 2014 were announced yesterday evening, and 18 ETH spin-offs were included in the list. What’s more, the startup with the best prospects of success started life at ETH Zurich.

Imperial has been shortlisted for International Collaboration of the Year in the 2014 Times Higher Education Awards.

WMG, at the University of Warwick, has announced the creation of a new Advanced Steel Research Centre. The new Centre complements Tata Steel’s announcement today, Tuesday 23rd September 2014, of the creation of their new international research centre to be based at the University of Warwick.

The Aalto University Board has appointed three new vice presidents, to commence their work on 1 October 2014. The current vice presidents' term ends on 30 September 2014.

Researchers at Chalmers are first to show the use of sound to communicate with an artificial atom. They can thereby demonstrate phenomena from quantum physics with sound taking on the role of light. The results are published by the journal Science.

The objective of the EBGC team is to combine the talents of entrepreneurs with the knowledge of Europe’s leading business schools

The Federal Council took a decision in principle in favour of the innovation park on Wednesday. To this end, it plans to reserve 70 hectares in Dübendorf. Today's military airdrome is also to be used for civil aviation in the future.

Professor Iain McCulloch has been presented with the Wolfson Research Merit Award in recognition of his outstanding work on semiconducting materials.

ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich are pooling their expertise in biomedical imaging technologies. Their new competence centre EXCITE Zurich aims to efficiently translate new ideas from basic research into clinical practice. The centre will be inaugurated on Saturday.

On Thursday, the Finnish Government appointed Aalto University Dean Risto Nieminen as a member of Board of the Academy of Finland.