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Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship holders can find an overview of events here, some of which they must attend. Platforms offering events for students or all ETH members are also listed.

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Welcome & introduction meeting  

  • 21 August 2024, 15.30 – 16.45 (CEST, Zurich), webinar (link will be sent by email shortly before the event)
  • Important: Mandatory participation.
  • Content: Official welcome by the Reception Service at ETH, important information about your stay in Switzerland and at ETH e.g., health insurance matters, scholarship payment, public transport, and oncoming events for scholarship holders. Information session around one hour, then Q&A.
  • Target group: All new incoming scholarship holders 2024/25
  • Organisation: Reception Service at ETH
     

Orientation event for doctoral students

  • 5 September 2024, 15.00 – 17.30, CHN C14 (building CHN, Universit?tstrasse 16, 8092 Zurich)
  • Important: Participation mandatory for FCS doctoral students (other groups: see below). Mandatory online registration prior to the event, see conditions of the Doctoral Administration at ETH. Inform your supervisor that you wish to participate in this event to be well prepared for your doctoral studies.
  • Target group: For ETH doctoral students. FCS visiting students doing their research at ETH might also wish to learn more about ETH as an institution and its services. Postdoctoral students and FCS visiting students doing their research at research institutions are not eligible for this event.
  • Content: Important information for newly arrived doctoral students to help them integrate into the ETH culture and administrative processes for doctoral students.
  • Organisation: Doctoral Administration at ETH
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City tour of Zurich  

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Intercultural competence workshop: Expand your cultural perspective

  • 15 October 2024, 11.15 to 13.15, PBS Labs (RZ building; Clausiusstrasse 59, 8006 Zürich)
  • Important: Registration required, link will be sent by email at the end of September
  • Content: Successful and enriching transition to Switzerland. Insights into social norms, values, and cultural practices that define everyday life in Switzerland and at ETH. Learn to identify unconscious biases and to implement strategies to effectively mitigate them. A joint event with international Master's students and an opportunity to connect.
  • Target group: New scholarship holders interested in cultural self-awareness, Swiss norms and values, intercultural communication etc.
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Intercultural competence workshop: Expand your cultural perspective

  • 17 October 2024, 17.45 to 19.45, HIT building (Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 27, 8093 Zürich)
  • Important: Registration required, link will be sent by email at the end of September
  • Content: Successful and enriching transition to Switzerland. Insights into social norms, values, and cultural practices that define everyday life in Switzerland and at ETH. Learn to identify unconscious biases and to implement strategies to effectively mitigate them. A joint event with international Master's students and an opportunity to connect.
  • Target group: New scholarship holders interested in cultural self-awareness, Swiss norms and values, intercultural communication etc.  
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Official welcome evening

  • 21 October 2024, beginning from approximately 17.00
  • Important: Participation highly recommended. Separate invitation with instructions, exact time and location will follow. For the round of introductions, participants must send a high-quality picture by Monday, 30 September 2024. It should show something typical from their home country (nature, buildings, traditions, food etc.) that each participant will present to fellow students of the programme.
  • Content: Official welcome with Prof. Dr. Ulrike Lohmann, Vice Rector for Doctoral Studies, and FCS delegate Professor Stefano Bernasconi. Round of introductions and dinner.
  • Target group: All scholarship holders
  • Organisation: Reception Service at ETH

Polyball

  • 30 November 2024, approx. starting at 19.00
  • Important: Self-organised. Must buy a ticket in advance (limited quantity). Ticket refund (student price) by Reception Service at ETH.
  • Content: Biggest decorated ball in Europe, traditional event at ETH with several ballrooms according to the ball theme
  • Target group: All scholarship holders
  • Organisation: KOSTA foundation
external page Open the Polyball website

Christmas event 

  • 7 December 2024, beginning from approximately 15.30
  • Important: Participation highly recommended. Registration required, separate invitation with instructions, exact time and location will follow.
  • Content: Visit to the external page Christmas market in Bremgarten followed by dinner at external page Restaurant JoJo together with the scholarship holders from the University of Zurich.
  • Target group: All scholarship holders
  • Organisation: Reception Service at ETH

Farewell event

  • Between June and August
  • Important: Participation highly recommended. Separate invitation with exact date and location will follow.
  • Target group: All scholarship holders
  • Organisation: Reception Service at ETH

Your ETH department might hold additional events that are not included above.

Time management

Unpunctuality is perceived as very disrespectful in Switzerland. Therefore, make sure that you arrive on time.

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