The federal institutes of technology (FIT) or known as ETH and EPFL institutes play a leading role in basic and applied research, teaching, innovation and services in the public sector. These institutions also achieve world-class results in the promising, future-oriented disciplines of life sciences, nanotechnology and communications technology. In Switzerland one finds two locations, one in Lausanne (EPFL) in the french part and one in Zurich (ETHZ) in the german part of Switzerland.
