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Leadership and development
- Download Application for funding for external training and education (PDF, 52 KB)
- Download Sabbatical request (PDF, 53 KB)
- Download Probationary period report (PDF, 69 KB)
- Download Appraisal interview Dialog (right-click > ‘save as ...’ > open with Adobe Acrobat) (PDF, 125 KB)
- Download Individual development plan (PDF, 33 KB)
- Download Annual Status Conversation Doctorate (PDF, 101 KB)
- Download Individual objective achievement plan (also known as PIP) (DOTX, 87 KB)
- Download Performance and progress interview for Senior Scientists (right-click > ‘save as ...’ > open with Adobe Acrobat) (PDF, 49 KB)
- Download My future - career planning (PDF, 49 KB)
- protected page Impact of financial regulations on HR processes (German) (PDF, 102 KB)
Personal data
Working remotely
- Working in an international context
- Working remotely in Switzerland
- Remote work in the country of residence – for cross-border commuters
- Download Agreement for working remotely from the country of residence (view and edit in Adobe Acrobat: Right-click on link > ‘save as’ > open in Adobe Acrobat) (PDF, 1.3 MB)
- protected page ETH Zurich Calendar for cross-boarder commuters (XLSX, 49 KB)
Job description
Job descriptionAccident / supplementary insurance
- protected page Accident report
- protected page Information sheet accident report (PDF, 33 KB)
- Download Collective accident insurance AXA (please save locally before filling in, German) (PDF, 412 KB)
- protected page Change to individual accident insurance of AXA (German) (PDF, 125 KB)
- Download Information sheet accident insurance SUVA and additional insurance AXA (PDF, 44 KB)
Checklists
- Download Academic guests / visiting professors (German) (PDF, 67 KB)
- Download Documents for employment (German) (PDF, 314 KB)
- Download Documents for guests (German) (PDF, 131 KB)
- Download Entry (German) (PDF, 55 KB)
- Download Leaving (German) (PDF, 236 KB)
- protected page Internal job change (PDF, 75 KB)
- Download New in Switzerland (PDF, 109 KB)
Information sheets
- Download Accident insurance SUVA and additional insurance AXA Winterthur (PDF, 44 KB)
- Download Change of position to Established Researcher or Scientific Collaborators (PDF, 34 KB)
- Download Childcare in Basel (PDF, 89 KB)
- Download Childcare in Ticino (PDF, 76 KB)
- Download Directives for Doctoral Students Employed at ETH Zurich (PDF, 831 KB)
- Download Emergency childcare for ETH members (PDF, 53 KB)
- Employment on a hourly wage basis
- Family allowances
- Download Guidelines for the implementation of the regulations on on-call duty, night work, work on Sundays or public holidays (PDF, 743 KB)
- Download Handling internships and work assignments outside ETH Zurich during the doctorate (PDF, 469 KB)
- Download Handling the exchange year at the Max Planck Society for Centre for Learning Systems (CLS) doctoral fellows from ETH Zurich (PDF, 94 KB)
- Download Illness and accident (PDF, 37 KB)
- Download Job reference (PDF, 36 KB)
- Download Maternity discussion guidelines (PDF, 495 KB)
- Download Multiple activity (PDF, 36 KB)
- Download Parenthood (PDF, 162 KB)
- external page Pension fund PUBLICA: The ETH Domain pension plan
- Download Reconciliation coaching for ETH members (PDF, 35 KB)
- Download Retirement (PDF, 54 KB)
- Download Risk insurance (PDF, 30 KB)
- Download Sabbatical (PDF, 42 KB)
- Download Supplementary accident insurance AXA Winterthur (PDF, 75 KB)
- Download Termination of PUBLICA pension fund (PDF, 33 KB)
- Download Uniform implementation of working hours (PDF, 41 KB)
- Working remotely in Switzerland (e.g. from home)
Information sheets for foreign employees
Download Reimbursement of Old-Age and Survivors’ Insurance (OASI) contributions for foreign employees (PDF, 40 KB)Leadership and development
- Leadership in Practice - toolkit for supervisors
- Appraisal interview Dialog
- Download Guidelines goal and assessment process (PDF, 89 KB)
- Download Self-assessment grid (PDF, 38 KB)
- Download Participation in external education/training (PDF, 161 KB)
- Download Scientific functions at ETH Zurich (PDF, 1.8 MB)
- Sabbatical
- Download Sabbatical disscussion guide (PDF, 91 KB)
Legal texts are binding in the official Swiss languages only, English translations are exclusively for information purposes.
Federal law on family allowances
external page Federal law on family allowances (German/French/Italian)Personnel Ordinances and Regulations
- Download Personnel Ordinance ETH - PVO ETH commented version (English) (PDF, 893 KB)
- external page Personnel Ordinance ETH - PVO ETH (German)
- external page Personnel Ordinance ETH - PVO ETH (French)
- external page Personnel Ordinance ETH - PVO ETH (Italian)
- Download Federal Personnel Act - BPG (German/French/Italian)
- external page Framework Regulation of the Federal Personnel Act (German/French/Italian)
- external page Federal Act on the Federal Institutes of Technology - ETH law
Sabbatical for ETH employees
Download Regulations - Sabbatical for ETH employees (German)Doctoral students
Directives doctoral students employed at ETH ZurichFurther ordinances
external page Ordinance of the joint review panel (German)Further regulations
- Regulations on on-call duty, night work and work on Sundays or public holidays
- Download Guidelines for the implementation of the regulations on on-call duty, night work and work on Sundays or public holidays (PDF, 743 KB)
- Download Guidelines on financial support for baby’s nursery places (PDF, 302 KB)
- Regulations for the recording of working time and absences
- Guidelines for ETH Zurich employees on reporting suspected malpractice - Whistleblowing Guidelines
- Financial Regulations of ETH Zurich
HR Aktuell
- protected page November 2025 – Presentation (German) (PDF, 2.2 MB)
- protected page June 2025 – Presentation (German) (PDF, 3.7 MB)
- Download November 2024 – Presentation (German) (PDF, 2.2 MB)
- protected page June 2024 – Presentation (German) (PDF, 2.1 MB)
- protected page October 2023 – Presentation (German) (PDF, 1.5 MB)
- protected page May 2023 – Presentation (German) (PDF, 2.1 MB)
- protected page November 2022 – Presentation (German) (PDF, 4 MB)
- Download May 2022 – Presentation (German) (PDF, 2.4 MB)