D+ITET

Diversity and Inclusion at D-ITET

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

News

6. March 2022

AVETH Statement: Call for Inclusive Teaching
We from the D+ITET team fully support the AVETH stance on the need for tangible institutional change against discriminatory teaching. We also stand in solidarity with the Chinese community at ETH and our need to take responsibility for the experienced discrimination caused by racially harmful learning materials. Call for Inclusive Teaching

Future/Current Events

7.12.2022

Pre-Christmas Meet&Greet
Where: ETL K 25
When: 18:00-20:00
Signup

Past Events

31. August 2021	Drinks of the World Where: ETF Terrace When: 17:00-20:00 Flyer Signup
26. May 2021	Overcoming Bias in Academia: Virtual Panel Discussion Summary and Write-Up of the event: Event-Page
15.10. - 5.11. 2020	AVETH is holding a diversity seminar series. Information and sign-up: Diversity&Inclusion in Science
7. November 2019	How to Leverage Diversity? - Practical Insights. Keynote by Jamie Lee Gloor; Panel: Jamie Lee Gloor, Vanessa Wood, Prasad Ramakrishnan, Andreas Ulbig Moderation: Olga Pardo
28. June 2019	Summer Festival: Food Bazaar Invitation and Flyer
20. June 2019	Workshop: 16 Personalities Summary and impressions of the event
11. April 2019 11:30 am	Lunch Talk with Prof. Brusoni The role of diversity in innovation and change. Some evidence. Slides of the presentation.

We learned about measures that can be taken to avoid that biases overtake our decision making.

The Team

We are current and former doctoral students at D-ITET


Leonard Deuschle	Nako Nakatsuka

Ilan Bouquet	Alexander DIetmüller

We are supported by D-ITET PR
Stefanie Pfennigbauer
Katja Abrahams-Lehner

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