Since 2005, the Department of Architecture at the ETH in Zürich, Switzerland played a very important role as a strategic partner in introducing new academic structures, pedagogical concepts as well as a capacity building program, which continuously supported the exchange of faculty and students between the two institutions. So far, more than 15 staff members and students from Ethiopia were enrolled in various programs at ETH and more than 100 students of the ETH in Zürich visited EiABC and Ethiopia at large and participated in various seminar weeks, workshops and summer school projects. The Master Program in Urban Design at the Department of Architecture at ETH Zürich focused for the last 5 years on Ethiopia as a case scenario for future scenarios in developing territories. The publication Cities of Change Addis Ababa documents those efforts. The SUDU project as well as the SRDU project are commonly funded research activities of both institutions, which achieved international recognition. In May 2011, the ETH Zurich, Switzerland organized a scientific workshop on Sub-Saharan Africa on behalf of the Global Alliance of Technological Universities at the premises of EiABC. The workshop focused on research co-operation and capacity building between GlobalTech members and African partners.