New Recommendations for Inclusive Language
How can we communicate in a way that truly includes everyone? A new website provides UZH staff and students with recommendations and tools to support inclusive communication.
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Pulling Together
If you want to be an entrepreneur, you have to be able to collaborate and develop solutions across disciplinary boundaries. This is a skill that can be learned. More than 150 students have already participated in a UZH Entrepreneurship Bootcamp. -
Building Bridges, Expanding Horizons
The School for Transdisciplinary Studies has been broadening UZH’s interdisciplinary curriculum for half a decade – time to celebrate! -
Learning from Children
UZH students mentor children and teenagers from socially disadvantaged backgrounds – and learn what children need to grow and thrive. -
A More Joined-Up Approach
In a seminar at the UZH Center for Crisis Competence, students work across disciplines to identify concrete solutions to urban conflicts. -
UZH Strengthens Interdisciplinary Studies
UZH is launching several new interdisciplinary study programs in the Fall Semester of 2025. -
“The value for money is unbeatable”
Patrik Beetz, the general manager of the UZH cafeteria portfolio, shares what he himself likes to eat and reveals what new changes he is planning in the interview below. And readers have chance to win a cafeteria voucher. -
Committed to a European Perspective
As members of the Una Europa Student Board Ladina Bischof and Lars Weidinger can make a true difference as students. -
Equal Access to University Life
UZH aims to eliminate barriers faced by people with disabilities. An extensive internal consultation process has generated 18 measures to help achieve this goal. -
“A more efficient process for disability accommodations benefits everyone”
Ulla Blume, the new head of the Disability Office, is moving forward with a project that aims to standardize and streamline the application process for reasonable accommodations. -
LGBTQIA+ Network at UZH Still Growing
For a little over a year now, LGBTQIA+ staff at UZH have been able to connect and build relationships through an in-house network. -
Study in Europe, Stay in Zurich
Thanks to the Una Europa alliance, UZH students can now easily add individual modules from other universities to their studies. -
“I want to rouse enthusiasm”
Biodiversity expert Florian Altermatt is the recipient of this year’s UZH Teaching Award. In the portrait below, he tells why he makes students count birds on Lake Zurich and divulges what that has to do with Pokémon. -
"A lot of work, but it pays off"
What does it take for persons with mobility, visual or hearing disabilities to be able to study at a university? Three people with disabilities reported on their university experiences in the UZH Accessible workshop series. -
Achieving More Together
In this series, we shine a light on UZH members dedicated to sharing knowledge, helping others and building a community on UZH’s campuses. -
Students Develop Bacterium to Protect Plants
Students at UZH developed a bacterium that can protect plants from negative environmental influences – and won the prize for Best Sustainable Development Impact at the international iGEM competition for synthetic biology. -
Journeying through History
How seabird excrement made history in the Caribbean – the term paper about this topic by history student Vivianne Rhyner received a semester award from UZH. -
Senate Reform
The Senate of the University of Zurich wants to play a more active role in matters of university-wide importance. It recently approved measures to achieve this goal.Der Senat der UZH will sich aktiver einbringen in Fragen von gesamtuniversitärer Bedeutung. Eine kürzlich beschlossene Reform kommt diesem Anliegen nach. -
Accessibility to Become Essential Part of University Culture
A workshop under the UZH Accessible project explored how to better embed accessibility in UZH culture. -
Cafeteria Food and Carbon Footprints
Decarb UZH is a strategic project that gives new momentum to achieving climate neutrality at UZH. The university is reviewing its current implementation strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as much as possible by 2030.