Everything that concerns our association.
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…
Completing shipments that maximize the impact for the future recipients is often limited by the availability of specific donated devices. So in late 2021, EquipSent hosted the first edition of a Donation Competition! Great rewards for the valuable devices that reached us in this call for equipment were kindly sponsored Read more…
This week EquipSent turned five years old! Thank you to everyone who has been part of this exciting journey so far and congratulations for the amazing results we have achieved so far! We are also proud to have hosted our 2022 General Assembly last week with everybody from founding members Read more…
Did we mention that we are frequently in need for more equipment for donations? That’s why EquipSent is actively trying to increase the number of partners for recurring donations, and in an ETH4D (https://eth4d.ethz.ch/) funded project we are exploring new ways how EquipSent can become more appealing to future industry Read more…
Join us for our anual General Assembly: Wedensday, 6 May 18:30 online Participation link: https://ethz.zoom.us/j/92340703000
An excited team needs exciting photos – pick your favorite! In our hands you can see examples of valuable chemistry glass ware and oscilloscopes, which we recently acquired. They will find sustainable use in new destinations – Stay tuned!
We are thrilled to have made it to the list of finalists for the Swiss Student Sustainability Challenge! Jan’s energetic pitching payed off, and now we are on the track for some advanced coaching. The final pitching and decision will be in October, and we will work hard to implement Read more…
We used the chance for free coffee and ‘Gipfeli’ at the Student Project House ‘Makerspace breakfast’ for an extended session to improve our webpage. Feel free to nagivate the hopefully now cleaned-up layout, and marvel at the new design.
As an association (“Verein”) under Swiss law, we hold a yearly general assembly. This year’s edition took place today at the ETH main building. Besides an update on the achievements of the year passed, we elected a new board and welcomed some new faces into our organisation. (more…)
EquipSent is now part of one of Germany’s largest social incubators based in Berlin: https://www.projecttogether.org! We receive coaching, attended an inspiring business case development weekend and have been selected among 10 “most promising” out of 300 social entrepreneurship projects!