The Design-and-Build Studio
Last year, 45 students built a room in Peru for archaeologists and kids. 10 months later, the site is fully operational. ...
Humanitarian Logistics: a report from the Field
ETH is applying its engineering know-how to make humanitarian operations more efficient. Here is a report from the field....
Magic beans – breeding disease resistant beans for smallholder farmers
Although I have been working with beans for two years now, I only fully realized the importance and impact of my project when I arrived in Uganda two weeks ago. The tradi...
Rowing the Atlantic
This is it! The Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge 2017 is about to get started. These words were the culmination of a three-and-a-half year long period of juggling my st...
How do Cocoa Farmers become Chocolate Entrepreneurs?
For more than six months now, I have been living and working with a community of small cocoa producers in a remote area of the Peruvian Amazon. This unique experience in ...
Exploring Rural Peru with a Tablet in the Pocket
For the past three weeks, my colleague Jia and I traveled in Peru, specifically in San Marcos, Province of Cajamarca, which is a small village of about 5’000 inhabi...