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Employee-Led Initiatives

Working groups and initiatives within organizational units are important to implement sustainability at UZH. You can get engaged in an existing group in your unit or get in contact with similar initiatives in other organizational units.  
to the student initiatives 

Current information on UZH units and initiatives committed to sustainable development can also be found in the Sustainability Report.
Sustainability Report

The employee initiatives listed below look forward to hearing from you, your commitment or your offer to network with similar groups in other organizational units.

Is your working group missing? Please send us an email 
info(at)sustainability.uzh.ch.

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Working groups and initiatives at the UZH faculties

Organizational unit Topics 

Further information

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
  • Incentive tax on flight-related CO2 emissions
 Measures taken by the faculties - air travel

Faculty of Business, Economics and Informatics
  • Young scientists
  • Impact Awards
  • Women in science
  • Responsible management education
 Responsibility at WWF

Faculty of Law

  • Public lectures on sustainability

  • Sustainability in teaching

  • Sustainability in research

  • Sustainability in operations

 Sustainability at RWF
Faculty of Medicine
  • Sustainability Policy
 currently no website on sustainability 

Faculty of Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
  • Sustainability principles (mission)
  • MNF Sustainability Committee
  • MNF Sustainable Travel Policy for the Reduction of Flight-based CO2 Emissions

Sustainability at MNF

Faculty of Theology and the Study of Religion
  • Sustainability Research
  • Sustainability in Teaching
  • Collaboration
  • Sustainability management and CO₂ reduction
 Sustainability at TRF
Vetsuisse Faculty
  • Topic currently in progress
 website currently under construction
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Cross-institute working groups and initiatives

Organizational unit Topics 

Contact/Further information
Greenlab Zurich Group
  • Reducing energy and waste in laboratories (approx. five organiza-tional units are involved)

Greenlab Zurich

info(at)sustainability.uzh.ch
Science Lab UZH
  • Sustainability in teaching
  • Outreach science and sustainability
  • Sustainability in day-to-day faculty life (together with MNF Sustainability Committee)

Science Lab UZH

Morana Mihaljević

morana.mihaljevic(at)sciencelab.uzh.ch
Digital Society Initiative (DSI) Community Sustainability
  • interplay between sustainability and digitalization
 to the DSI Community Sustainability
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Working groups and initiatives of individual institutes and chairs

Organizational unit Topics 

Contact/Further information
Center of Dental Medicine
  • Sustainability in day-to-day department life

Guiding principle Center for Dental Medicine

contact:
Gwen Leyssens
gwen.leyssens(at)zzm.uzh.ch
Chair of Organization and Management
  • Air travel

contact:
Theresa Langenmayr
theresa.langenmayr(at)business.uzh.ch
Department of Geography
  • Sustainability in day-to-day department life
  • Air travel
  • Outreach 

Sustainability Task Force

contact:
sustainability(at)geo.uzh.ch

 
Department of Informatics
  • Sustainability in day-to-day department life

contact:
Annette Brunschwiler
annette.brunschwiler(at)uzh.ch
Department of Physics
  • Sustainability in day-to-day department life

Sustainability at Department of Physics

contact:
sustainability(at)physik.uzh.ch
Department of Political Science
  • Sustainability in day-to-day department life (IT, shared space)
  • Air travel

IPZ Institutsstrategie 2021-2024

contact:
Petra Holtrup
petra.holtrup(at)pw.uzh.ch
Department of Psychology
  • Air travel

Mission Statement and Strategic Orientation

contact:
info(at)psychologie.uzh.ch 

Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany and Department of Plant and Microbial Biology
  • Sustainability in day-to-day department life / in the Botanical Garden
  • Air travel
  • Dialogue/Communication/ Sensitization
  • Sustainability in research, teaching and operations

Sustainability

contact:
sustainability(at)systbot.uzh.ch
Deutsches Seminar
  • Mission statement
  • Seminar meeting on sustainability
  • Sustainability in day-to-day department life
  • Goals
 Sustainability at Deutsches Seminar (German)
English Department
  • Sustainability in day-to-day department life

Sustainability at the English Department

contact:
Kirsten Rudin
kirsten.rudin(at)es.uzh.ch
Institute of Sociology
  • Sustainability in day-to-day department life

contact:
John Flury
flury(at)soziologie.uzh.ch
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