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On 22 October 2021, the MTEC Department honoured its MSc, MAS and doctoral graduates at this year’s MTEC Day. MTEC Day is an annual event that brings together graduates, alumni, faculty and key stakeholders from business and academia, with the aim of strengthening the personal and professional relationships between them.

Jointly initiated by Micheline Calmy-​Rey – former member of the Swiss Federal Council – and D-​MTEC's Professor Michael Ambühl, ETH Zurich and UNIGE have founded the Lab for Science in Diplomacy (SiDLab). It shall leverage quantitative and computational methods to address the complexity of negotiation problems – both in practice and analysis.

Following troubles in global supply chains, KOF Swiss Economic Institute revised their economic growth forecast for 2021 to +3.2%. The recovery from the pandemic shifts to 2022, says KOF Director Jan-​Egbert Sturm.

To recover from the pandemic, subsidies and payments abound globally. Banks lend and buy readily. As they do not face the same increase in regulations compared to after the financial crisis this increases the risk for inflation, D-​MTEC's Hans Gersbach says to Handelsblatt.

The ETH Board has appointed Lint Barrage Associate Professor of Energy and Climate Economics at D-MTEC. Professor Barrage’s research focuses on the macroeconomic and social consequences of ecological developments and environmental policy decisions.