Month: February 2019

position paper by “actionuni der Schweizer Mittelbau”

Today actionuni der Schweizer Mittelbau published its position paper on the promotion of young researchers at Swiss higher education institutions. The position paper was drawn up jointly with all members and unanimously adopted at the last delegates’ meeting.  Florian Lippke, former Co-President of actionuni and member of the Swiss Accreditation Council, commented: We are aware that every university…
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AVETH General Assembly

The next AVETH general assembly will take place on Thursday, March 7, from 18:00 in restaurant Bellavista at Hönggerberg. The board will present an activity report from 2018 and an outlook for the year 2019. The new board of AVETH and all commission representatives will then be elected. The complete agenda and relevant documents are…
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Our Survival Guide

We are pleased to bring back our Survival Guide. Updates and some optimization to the content will follow soon!

Doctoral studies in the spotlight – Symposium “Doctoral Supervision”

What makes good supervision for doctoral students? What factors define the relationship between the supervisor and the doctoral student? A two-day symposium was held in January at the ETH main building to answer these and many other questions. In total, 200 ETH lecturers, half of them professors at all levels, about 80 doctoral students (including…
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