We take part in various meetings of NGOs and others.
Join EquipSent at ETH Net Zero Day! On May 8, ETH Zurich is hosting its second ETH Net Zero Day, an event dedicated to exploring the journey toward a climate-neutral university. EquipSent will be at the interactive impact fair in the CAB building from 1 PM onwards! Come by to Read more…
We had the incredible opportunity to introduce EquipSent to the Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) community during the RSC ESR conference in Warwick! Jörg delivered a short yet impactful presentation, highlighting our mission and the importance of sustainable resource distribution in the scientific community. Thank you to everyone who attended and Read more…
Thanks to Women in Natural Sciences (WiNS) and NCCR microbiome for helping us spread the word!We are very grateful for the invitation to raise awareness of the opportunity to give laboratory equipment a second life, while enabling education and research in low-income countries. It was a pleasure to discuss our Read more…
Last week EquipSent got the chance to present our organization at the ETH Sustainability Summit. Our delegation around co-president Jörg Fischer showed our early and recent successes, and advertised our open positions, which you can now also find on LinkedIn!
Over the past five years, EquipSent has celebrated several successful equipment tansfers, and now it’s time to ask how we can scale up our achievements to improve global access to higher education! That is the key question that students of this year’s joint ETH Zurich and University of St.Gallen EMBAx Read more…
On Thurday, 10.12.2020, the first ever EquipSent Pub opened its virtual doors, and eight brave and adventurous teams followed the call! To strenghten our contestants we made sure that (non-virtual) pizza was delivered to their locations for a distributed pizza break, which was kindly sponsored by our partner organisation AVETH. Read more…
Today we reviewed our progress on the Sarajevo- and Congo-Cases, made future Plans for 2019 and had a great social evening! A very positive and productive “Work-Mezze-Balance” 😉
As last year, we were invited to the Clinton Global Initiative conference, an event for roughly 1000 social entrepreneurs from all parts of the world, driving topics such as equality, public health, poverty alleviation, etc. We were part of the “Educational Access” section. It was another fantastic experience to network Read more…
We had a super exciting and productive brain-storming and thought-organizing workshop tonight to define what we at EquipSent believe is a long-term sustainable and fair way to set up equipment donations. These considerations will eventually become our major guidelines to future donation decisions. Big shout-out and huge thanks to Marie Read more…
We had a great time discussing ongoing cases and future plans during a meeting in Basel. Afterwards we celebrated the Swiss National Day and watched the fireworks. Team building at its best!