Coinciding with the start of the spring session of the Swiss parliament, academic mid-level staff across Switzerland rose to fight planned budget cuts that threaten the quality and integrity of Swiss higher education and research. Together with allies from student associations and unions, we organized various actions against the unnecessary dismantling of the academic system. … Continued
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On the morning of 2 March, associations representing students, academic mid-level staff and professors at Swiss higher education institutions (VSS-UNES-USU, VPOD – Gewerkschaft im Service public, swissfaculty and actionuni) expressed their strong opposition to the budget cuts planned by the Federal Council on the opening of the parliamentary session. During a joint press conference, we … Continued
The numbers and the weight of precarious employment On 30.09.2025, Giulia Petralli representative in the Gran Conciglio of Tecino, sent “Interrogazione N. 186.25” (Interrogation no. 186.25, translated using DeepL pro) to the Consiglio di Stato of Tecino. The interrogation titled “Corpo intermedio di USI e SUPSI: i numeri e il peso del precariato” included a … Continued
The Swiss-Wide Mental Health Survey (SWiMS) is a national initiative led by actionuni, carried out together with 13 mid-level staff associations from higher education institutions across Switzerland. The goal of SWiMS is to provide a comprehensive, data-driven picture of the mental health, well-being, and working conditions of academic mid-level staff across Switzerland. Academic mid-level staff … Continued
Recherche-Team REFLEKT’s investigation has given our colleagues a voice and thoroughly investigated the causes of this widespread abuse of power, for which we are extremely grateful.
Actionuni has responded to the consultation on the federal government’s austerity measures. We strongly reject these unfair and counterproductive cuts, which threaten the Swiss higher education and research system. There is no justification for such drastic spending cuts: Switzerland’s finances are healthy, and now is time to invest in the future. The rationale given by … Continued
VSETH organised its own survey called ‘wiegETHs’ for the first time in the spring semester of 2019 to get a better overview of the mental health and concerns of students at ETH. The responses provided important insights into the well-being of students and helped the VSETH to advocate more specifically for students’ concerns. From 18 … Continued
Swiss mid-level academic staff associations call for maintaining funding for Switzerland’s high-quality research and teaching Language versions DE | FR | IT | EN
Mental health is crucial, especially in the high-pressure environments of higher education. As we do not know exactly how mid-level academic staff in Switzerland is doing and what could be done to improve the situation, we established this survey to uncover challenges and opportunities for improvement both locally and nationally. Take the survey here: https://bit.ly/SWiMS24 … Continued
Federal council report in response to the postulat 22.3390 obtained thanks to the petition academia (to learn more about the petition, click here). The report can be found here (german/french)