Association of Students at ETH
| Association of Students at ETH Zurich (VSETH) |
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| purpose | Representation of ETH Zurich students inside and outside the university. Stimulation of student life at ETH. |
| Chair: | Tierry Hörmann |
| Establishment date: | Winter 1862 |
| Number of members: | 10,656 (spring semester 2013) |
| Seat : | Zurich |
| Website: | www.vseth.ch |
The Association of Students at ETH (VSETH) is the umbrella organization for students at ETH Zurich . The association represents the interests of the student body externally and towards the university . In contrast to the situation in many other countries, Switzerland does not have its own legal form for student representatives (such as the German AStA ), which is why the VSETH is an association under Swiss law . Through a contract with the university, he is the official representative of all students at the bachelor and master level within the framework of the ETH . According to its own information, 10,000 of the approximately 12,000 students (excluding doctoral students) are members.
history
The association was founded seven years after the founding of the ETH Zurich (then a polytechnic) in the winter of 1862 . In the beginning, the association was a connection very similar, but never had the hierarchical for this so typical structure of members. Shortly after its founding, the association management at the time fell out with the school management of the Polytechnic, which led to the departure of half of the students at the time.
The association achieved its greatest success in 1969 when it alone held the referendum against the new ETH law and this was rejected at the ballot box. Although a new ETH law came into force in 1992, which did not differ significantly from the one that was rejected in 1969, the right of students to have a say in ETH matters has been significantly expanded since then.
In the 1970s, the VSETH was increasingly politically shaped, which led to the foundation of the SOS ETH , an apolitical student association. For two decades, the two associations shared the representation of students at the ETH level. Today the VSETH is again deliberately apolitical and, together with its professional associations, is the only student body at ETH.
In 2008 the association received official status through a framework agreement with the university.
In 2012 VSETH celebrated its 150th anniversary with the 150th anniversary of VSETH program .
tasks
The VSETH is active in two areas:
- He is the official university political representative of the students. This means that representatives of the VSETH have a seat on various bodies at ETH Zurich, for example the university assembly, and bring in the interests of the students there.
- It offers all kinds of services for the student body, primarily through its professional associations and commissions. These include the administration of the ETH premises provided for students and the organization of parties and events. Various other services such as collections of old exams are also available through the specialist associations.
Events
First semester festival
At the beginning of the academic year, the VSETH welcomes new students with the so-called first semester festival. With around 5,000 participants, it is one of the largest student parties in Switzerland and has been taking place on the Hönggerberg campus for several years.
Golden owl
The Golden Owl is a sympathy award given by the students to the lecturers at ETH Zurich. It is awarded annually by the VSETH and honors particularly committed teachers who offer their students excellent teaching.
All ETH members with a teaching position can win the Golden Owl. One teacher will be awarded per department. The award ceremony is held every year as part of the ETH Day.
financing
For a student organization, VSETH is unusually financially strong. This results from the fact that, in addition to a voluntary membership fee and mandatory student fees, he also organizes his own contact and company fairs with the Forum & Contact Commission (polymesse). At these events, companies have the opportunity to get to know students as future employees for a fee.
Various professional associations (such as computer science, mechanical engineering and electrical engineering or civil and environmental engineering) also offer specialized company fairs.
Professional associations
The VSETH is an umbrella organization. There is a professional association for all subjects that can be studied at ETH Zurich, which only represents the interests of the students in the subject. All professional associations of ETH Zurich are organized in VSETH, currently these are:
- AIV (Academic Engineer Association, Civil Engineering)
- AMIV (Academic Mechanical and Electrical Engineer Association at ETH)
- APV (Academic Pharmacy Students Association)
- architektura (architecture)
- erfa (Earth Science Association of the ETH)
- BSA (Biotechnology Students Association)
- GUV (Geomatics and Environmental Engineers Association of ETH Zurich)
- HeaT (Health and Technology)
- OBIS (Organization of Business and Industrial Engineering)
- SMW (materials science students)
- UFO (Association of Environmental Students at ETH Zurich)
- VCS (Association of Chemistry Students at ETH)
- VeBiS (Association of Biology Students at ETH Zurich)
- VIAL (Association of Engineer-Agronomists and Food Engineers at ETH Zurich)
- VIS (Computer Science, Association of Computer Science Students)
- VMP (Association of Mathematics, Physics and RW Students at ETH Zurich)
- GESS Who! (Department: Humanities, Social and Political Sciences)
Commissions
The VSETH can outsource clearly defined tasks to so-called commissions. The VSETH has the following commissions:
- Film station VSETH
- Debating Club
- Forum & Contact
- FliK
- Photo Laboratory Commission
- Cultural office
- ETH Model United Nations
- Nightline
- PapperlaPub
- Student Print On Demand (SPOD)
- Dance quotient (TQ)
- Challenge
- HönggerGames
- [project 21]
- Gaming and Entertainment Committee (GECo)
The following commissions were dissolved:
- Jubilee Commission
- KGB (Commission for Student Buildings and Construction Projects)
- Hönggerberg Neighborhood Commission (HöNK)
Networks
The VSETH, together with the Studentenraad TU Delft, the General Student Committee of the RWTH Aachen University and the Chalmers Studentkår, form the Idealistic as student representation at the level of the IDEA League .
The VSETH is also a member of the VSS .
See also
Association of assistants, research assistants and doctoral students at ETH Zurich
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ VSETH: About us
- ↑ ETHZ: data and facts
- ↑ a b 150 years of VSETH ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ First semester festival 2014 , website of the ESF 2014, accessed on September 17, 2014.
- ↑ Contact party company fair of the Association of Computer Science Students
- ↑ AMIV contact company fair electrical engineering / mechanical engineering
- ↑ Contact meeting Hönggerberg KTH company fair for D-BAUG
- ↑ VSETH: professional associations
- ↑ Commissions | VSETH. Accessed January 29, 2017 (German).
