Vision

The diversity organization envisions an open, inclusive, unbiased environment, where students, employees and faculty thrive and achieve their highest potential. With respect and tolerance, we learn from each other and leverage the great potential that lies in the heterogeneity of personal, educational and professional backgrounds.

Mission

The mission of Diversity @ ITET is to be a diverse and inclusive scientific community, where we fully support responsible leadership and personal development from all parties. We, professors, staff, and students strive to express respect towards each other, and to listen openly to different viewpoints, opinions, thoughts, and ideas. We strive to embrace a culture of tolerance and inclusion, where we appreciate the other. We are open-minded and curious to learn from individuals and groups. By this, we aim at creating a space where people feel emotionally, physically and intellectually safe and where difficulties are acknowledged and openly addressed.

Strategic Objectives

Our objective is to foster personal development, help with career planning, strengthen professional networks and create a supportive community. We facilitate this by organizing:

• Workshops – Initiate discussions on challenging topics (e.g., on unconscious bias).
• Skillset Trainings – Host trainings on technical and methodical skills (e.g., programming, presentation, negotiation).
• Mentoring – Organize peer mentoring (e.g., study groups) as well as senior mentoring (e.g., professors, company contacts).
• Outreach – Raise awareness for the D-ITET diversity organization (e.g., actively welcome new PhD students, website including upcoming events)

Sources

Interesting (academic) reads provided by AVETH diversity:
AVETH Diversity-Library

Contact

Curious? Ideas, questions, or fancy a coffee?
Contact us: diversity@ee.ethz.ch

The Team

We are current and former doctoral students at D-ITET

Leonard Deuschle	Cindy Karina
Ilan Bouquet	Alexander Dietmüller

We are supported by D-ITET PR!
Contact us: pr@ee.ethz.ch

Former Members

Marie Francine Lagadec Founder	Sarah Kurmulis Founder	Alexander Lochbaum
Laetitia Vionnet	Pascal Bleuler	Sören Hedtke
Marco Eppenberger	Eva Ahbe	Dominik Bauer
Maria Apostolaki	Andreas Messner	Zeta Avarikioti
Nako Nakatsuka