Your Representative Body Organization of the UZH

VAUZ (the Association of the academic mid-level faculty staff of the University of Zurich) is the Representative Body Association of Junior Researchers of the University of Zurich.

All UZH assistants, doctoral students, senior assistants, and postdocs belonging to the UZH representative body are welcome and can get involved in VAUZ.

With VAUZ, you can voice your concerns and help shape a safe working environment for UZH early career researchers.

The management of the University of Zurich is "based on the principles of subsidiarity, participation, transparency and balance of interests. The appropriate inclusion of members of all levels in decision-making is an expression of their shared responsibility."
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University Act (in German)
415.11_15.3.98_108.fm (zh.ch)
F. Representative Bodies of the University and Organization of Students, p. 8
(Stände der Universität und Organisation der Studierenden)

There are four representative body associations at UZH. They represent the respective UZH staff categories. VAUZ is the non-profit-organization of mid-level faculty staff, consisting of all UZH PhD students, postdocs, assistants and senior assistants in temporary training and on qualification positions. The VAUZ coordinates and represents the concerns and interests of more than 7000 members of the UZH body of junior researchers vis-à-vis the UZH and other stakeholders.

For this purpose, VAUZ organizes the election of delegates of the junior researcher staff category.

In various UZH internal and external committees, delegates of the junior researcher staff represent the interests of the staff and thus exercise their co-determination and co-responsibility in university politics in university-wide and faculty committees as well as in committees of seminars, institutes and clinics.