About Us

The Communications Office is responsible for communicating with the public about the University’s activities and for internal communications:

• Strategic and operative management of UZH communications
• Media requests, media releases, and contacting experts
• Content and development of university-wide website www.uzh.ch
• UZH publications (UZH News, Newsletter UZH Weekly and UZH Inside, UZH Magazin, Annual Report)
• Organization and staging of university-wide events (Scientifica, Talk im Turm)

We provide UZH members with advice on all their communications needs, on in-house and external communications work:

• Advising the President, the Executive Board of the University, the faculty deans, departments, and offices
• Advice and support for media requests and media releases
• Advice and support in applying UZH’s corporate design
• Provision of communications services (writing and editing, graphic design, print, web services, event management)
• Advice, coordination, and provision of English translations