D-BAUG Diversity Portrait
D-BAUG Diversity aims to 1) create an inclusive environment for members of all genders, 2) appreciate diversity as a chance for enrichment among all students and staff; 3) ensure that all professional levels and students are equally represented.
The current role of D-BAUG Diversity is to:
- Recognize the potential and need for improvements in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) principles;
- Support D-BAUG in implementing actions that promote gender, diversity, equity and inclusion;
- Highlight examples of good practices at D-BAUG and ETH-wide;
- Cooperate with the ETH Diversity Office.
To this effect, the Department aims to promote Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) principles in the domains of:
- Personnel hire and management
- Working modes and models
- Cooperation and exchange within the research and teaching environments
- Transparent procedures and protocols.
D-BAUG Diversity in action
Activities and events
- 2025 Mentoring Programme
- 2024 Kangaroos go Science Day, with D-MATH
- 2024 Spotlight Seminar Series
- 2024 Mentoring Programme
- 2023 Hosted the Kangaroos go Science Day, organised with D-MATH
- 2023 Launched the Spotlight Seminar Series (with special guests)
- 2023 Launched the Spotlight Stories (focus on D-BAUG staff and students)
- 2023 Gender-neutral toilets in HIL
- 2022 Comics, based on D-BAUG 2021 survey responses
- 2022 Establishment of a mentoring programme for doctoral candidates
- 2022 Sponsorship of 500WS Zurich "external page Really? What Now?" event for doctoral candidates
- 2021 Webinar “I do it my way” on career paths of five female engineers
- 2021 D-BAUG survey of staff and students
- 2018 Role models of D-BAUG portrayed in Annual Report
- 2017 Pilot mentoring and coaching programme for scientific assistants
- Campaign for gender awareness: GDK flyer handed out in AVETH welcome bags
- Sponsoring of yearly “BauIngenieurinnen Forum”
Reconciliation of studies/work and family
- Working from home (in place before Covid-19)
As of March 5, 2025, the Department Conference (DK) has adopted new bylaws, renaming the former Gender and Diversity Commission (GDK), originally established at D-BAUG in early 2019, to "D-BAUG Diversity." Initially, the GDK emerged from a workshop held in 2014, in response to the ETH Zurich Executive Board's Gender Action Plan, aimed primarily at increasing the proportion of women in academic careers.
The renaming aligns with the ETH Diversity unit and follows the new external page ETH Domain EDI Strategy 2025-2028. D-BAUG Diversity aims to further develop and sustainably embed measures to promote equity, diversity, and inclusion within the department. An action plan is currently being developed to support and implement the strategic goals of ETH and the broader ETH Domain.