VAME is the Academic Association of Scientific Staff at D-EAPS (for the curious — the acronym stands for the German name, “Verein des akademischen Mittelbaus am Departement Erd- und Planetenwissenschaften“). We represent the D-EAPS “Mittelbau” – all academics in the department who are not full professors, from doctoral students to post-docs to senior scientific staff.
We represent the interests of this diverse group within the department and at the ETH-wide level. And we organise events, get-togethers, and more, in order to contribute to the social life of D-EAPS and help newly arrived staff to feel welcome.
We have a number of programmes run by volunteer members within the department (check out EqualiTea, for instance). We also have a new Doctoral retreat team.
Interested in helping?
Currently, we are searching for volunteers for our Welcome Committee and our Help!desk! Check it out!
Would you like to support our Friday Peers or Help!desk? Are you interested in organising events for the Mittelbau? If you would like to do this, or join the VAME team and actively take part in ETH politics you are in the right place! Please contact our chair.
Our board is reachable at vame@eaps.ethz.ch.