EDI News
News list
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Happy holidays and all the best for 2026!
The EDI Office looks back on a successful year 2025 and wishes everyone a peaceful end to the year and all the best for 2026.
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UZH is the first university to join the Allianz Digitale Inklusion Schweiz
As of January 2026, UZH will become a member of the Allianz Digitale Inklusion Schweiz (ADIS).
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Code of Conduct — Campus Life
The Code of Conduct for Campus Life is based on UZH's core values and principles and is valid for all members and guests of the university. It promotes a positive, discourse-oriented campus culture.
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Farewell to Dr. phil. Elisabeth Maurer Lutz
Elisabeth Maurer, the former UZH Women’s Representative, died on May 4, 2025.
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2. Rising Scholar Conference in Finance
Verena Meyer Visiting Professor Caroline Flammer will again lecture at UZH and will again give the keynote speech at the second Rising Scholar Conference in Finance of the Department of Finance.
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The Office for Gender Equality and Diversity is now the EDI Office
As a result of its expanded mandate on inclusion, the former Office for Gender Equality and Diversity has been renamed the Office for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion (EDI).
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35 years of equality at UZH
The event celebrating 35 Years of Equality at UZH took place on June 24, 2024. The diverse program encouraged discussion about the history and present of equality at universities.
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Rising Scholars Conference on Sustainable Finance
Verena Meyer Visiting Professor Caroline Flammer will again be lecturing at UZH. She will deliver the keynote address at the Department of Finance's Rising Scholars Conference on Sustainable Finance.
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14 and 15 June 2024 for Equality and Diversity
UZH, together with other Zurich universities, is expressing its solidarity with the LGBTQIA+ communities at Zurich Pride 2024.
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Sexual Harassment Awareness Day interview
Legal scholars Brigitte Tag and Sina Staudinger explain what UZH is doing to protect against sexual harassment.
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Gender Equality Plan: New information leaflet
Hot off the press: Information leaflet for UZH's Gender Equality Plan 2022 - 2027
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Promoting acceptance of different identities
Pride Month: UZH News talks to four people from the LGBTIQ community
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Appointment statistics 2021: Higher proportion of women
For the first time, more female professors than male professors have taken up their posts at UZH.
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New Visiting Professor: Dr. Tamar El-Or
Dr. Tamar El-Or is Inge Strauch Visiting Professor at the Department of Religious Studies and the Faculty of Theology (UZH).
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New Visiting Professor: Dr. Kerstin Pull
The new Inge Strauch Visiting Professor will teach at the Faculty of Business, Economics and Informatics (UZH).
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Honorary Doctorate for Andrea Büchler
UZH legal scholar Andrea Büchler was granted an honorary doctorate in September by the University of Vienna for her outstanding and courageous academic contributions.
- Happy holidays and all the best for 2026!
- UZH is the first university to join the Allianz Digitale Inklusion Schweiz
- Code of Conduct — Campus Life
- Farewell to Dr. phil. Elisabeth Maurer Lutz
- Sustainable Finance Event
- The Office for Gender Equality and Diversity is now the EDI Office
- Anniversary
- Sustainable Finance Event
- Zurich Pride und Frauenstreik 2024
- Sexual Harassment Awareness Day interview
- CommUNIty Campaign
- Gender Equality Plan: New information leaflet
- Age-friendly UZH
- Promoting acceptance of different identities
- Appointment statistics 2021: Higher proportion of women
- New Visiting Professor: Dr. Tamar El-Or
- New Visiting Professor: Dr. Kerstin Pull
- UZH Equal Pay Analysis
- Honorary Doctorate for Andrea Büchler