The idea is to have an online calendar where the seminars/talks from various departments at ETH are announced. The calendar will also include any special talks/events organised by ETH. It can be extended to announce lab visits or open day or exhibitions happening at ETH. It will also act as a central platform for publicizing the events or talks organized by lecturers to a much wider audience.
Consider a situation where a student has free time, then he/she can just go to this calendar and check if their is any interesting talk/exhibition going on at that moment at ETH and attend it. It will help students to increase their general awareness about various research activities happening at ETH. It will also inculcate interest of students in interdisciplinary research and widen their horizons about stimulating research and discoveries in various disciplines.
The calendar can also serve as a mailing list for students, customised based on their interests. they would be able to subscribe about notification of events based on keywords. In summary, it will be a central place where any student can go and browse various activities as compared to browsing through websites of all departments. It will essentially save a lot of time and effort. Furthermore, it will have an information if their is a free apero after the event 🙂
November 17th, 2011 at 6:57
I totally approve of this. The suggested idea can be implemented as a calendar with RSS feeds also so that people can be up to date about latest events. There are so many events happening in a University where departments are scattered, I personally remember missing out on so many interesting events.
Another extension of it would be to have tags for all events, so event creator can tag the event with one or more keywords of his/her choice and users can filter the set of events based on their interest.
November 17th, 2011 at 9:20
This is a great move and highly encouraged !
Thank you ETHZ :-).
November 17th, 2011 at 11:56
It is a cool idea and will definitely prove to be beneficial to students and as well to the organisers of the seminars and lectures. On several occasions students miss these seminars simply due to lack of ‘proper advertisement’. This step would therefore serve as a medium of advertisement and would increase participation. The idea of apero is awesome too.
November 18th, 2011 at 9:55
This is a great idea and it will be very useful to all the people, getting all the details about the events at one place.