ETH Zurich set up the project platform Seed Sustainability as a service to coordinate and promote sustainable development activities, collaboration between society, industry and science and student research. Problems in need of solutions are delivered by external partners from business and industry, local government and NGOs –also by sources within the University - and investigated by students from various disciplines. With project-related sustainability research, consulting services and coaching, Seed Sustainability enables students to get actively involved in sustainable development and partnering activities with society, industry and science. Studies within Seed Sustainability are completed in the form of Bachelor and Master theses and Internship reports as well as dissertations.
The idea behind Seed Sustainability originated in 2001 from a student initiative and is now administered by ETH Sustainability.