Responsibilities and List of Services

Our work is based on the UZH communications concept and the service mandate of the UZH Communications Office.

• Strategic and operative management of UZH communications
• Development of communications principles, corporate design guidelines, web policy, publishing principles
• Identification and evaluation of developments and trends in the field of communications as well as the related technologies, instruments and methods

• Advising the President and the Executive Board of the University
• Advising the faculty deans
• Advising departments, institutes, and offices
• Contacting communications service providers (writers and editors, graphic designers, printers, web services, event managers, translators)

• Coordinating experts for media requests, media response triage
• Media conferences
• Media releases

• Development, production, and provision of core communications materials
• Issuing UZH publications (Magazin, UZH News)

• Production of event calendar (uniagenda)
• Production of integrated visitor information system (IBIS)
• Production of image collection

• Writing, editing, and production of the corporate website (main UZH website)
• Video production
• UZH website development: Concept, structure, design, ongoing accommodation of new needs and technical capabilities
• Provision of UZH Content Management System: Requirements and needs, usability

• Implementation of corporate design guidelines, support

• Organization and staging of university-wide events (Scientifica, Sommernachtsfest, Talk im Turm)

• Management of UZH terminology database
• Coordination of English translations