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At UZH, four representative bodies represent the interests of students and staff.
This is defined in the University Law and the University Statutes.
To ensure that they have a say, the four representative bodies organize the election of delegates on the basis of the election regulation.
VAUZ as UZH mid-level faculty organization organizes the election of the delegates of junior researchers. All UZH mid-level faculty members are members of this body. The delegates represent all UZH mid-level faculty members in the committees to which they have been elected.
The main election of delegates takes place every two years in spring. The term of office for delegates is two years. All seats are then re-elected.
The delegates of junior researchers are organized in the UZH mid-level faculty organization VAUZ. Together they form the Extended VAUZ Board and represent all UZH mid-level faculty members.
The elected delegates coordinate themselves in VAUZ. They become members of the VAUZ Board Meetings team. The delegates meet for six coordination meetings per year to improve the situation of UZH PhD students, postdocs, assistants, senior assistants and student assistants in a sustainable and continuous manner.
The main task of the delegates is to create opportunities for optimizing the working and support environment for the UZH mid-level faculty and to maintain the flow of information and exchange between the mid-level faculty, the delegates and the Extended VAUZ Executive Board.
Delegates in UZH organs, committees, commissions and working groups regularly report on the activities of "their" commission at VAUZ Board meetings. Ideally, they should write a meeting report in the Meeting-Report-Tool.
If delegates resign, they report their resignation here: Report resignation
Ideally, they should familiarize their successors with the respective committee's work and hand over the business and its documentation.
VAUZ sends out a monthly newsletter with information on events and current vacancies. The delegates make their colleagues aware of this and help to recruit new VAUZ members and new delegates.
It is essential that new mid-level faculty employees are informed about VAUZ and its activities as soon as they take up their post. This serves to improve integration and demonstrates the advantages of symbolic VAUZ membership and participation, whether as a delegate or as an active member of VAUZ.
In order to discuss current topics, report on or plan activities and prepare the election of delegates, the members of the Extended VAUZ Board - i.e. all delegates active in the VAUZ - meet for six Board meetings a year as well as the annual VAUZ General Assembly.
At the Annual General Meeting, the members of the VAUZ Executive Board are elected and assume responsibility for one of the departments:
In faculties, the delegate on the faculty board organizes cross-institute communication with all mid-level faculty members.
In institutes, the delegate in the institute assembly ensures the flow of communication with the mid-level faculty members of the institute, the delegates in the respective faculty and the Extended VAUZ Board.
In order to coordinate the mid-level faculty members across the university, at least one representative from each faculty takes part in the meetings of the Extended VAUZ Board and the VAUZ General Assembly, thus ensuring communication within VAUZ as the UZH mid-level faculty association.
The delegates in institute, faculty, university-wide and cross-faculty committees regularly report on the content of the respective committee meetings at the meetings of the Extended Executive Board and obtain the opinion of the UZH mid-level faculty via meetings of the Extended Executive Board for strategic co-determination.
The delegates represent the collective opinion of the UZH mid-level faculty members, which they represent in all committees.