Join us for the General Meeting and apéro and register via google forms until 15 November 2025!

Dear avuba members,
We invite you to the avuba General Meeting 2025 and to drinks and snacks after the meeting!

Date: Monday, 24 November 2025
Time: 6 pm until approximately 8 pm (We will start at 6pm sharp, please arrive a bit earlier.) 
Place: Kollegienhaus at Petersplatz 1, room 117 (a hybrid, passive participation without voting rights via Zoom is also possible)

Agenda

1. Welcome
2. Election of minute taker
3. Election of vote counters
4. Approval of the agenda of the General Meeting of 24 November 2025
5. Approval of the Minutes of the General Meeting held on 2 December 2024
6. Approval of a) the avuba annual report 2024 and b) the corresponding avuba internal auditors' report
7. Activity report 2025
8. Discharge resolutions 2025 of a) the executive board, b) the co-presidium, c) the general management and d) the auditors
9. Outlook 2026
10. Approval of a) the financial forecast for 2025 (consultative) and b) the budget for 2026
11. Elections for the year 2026: a) the co-presidium, b) additional executive board members and c) the auditors
12. Miscellaneous

Please register by 15 November 2025 via google forms. You can join in person or online.

If you attend in person, please bring a valid identity card for identification.
Only avuba members who are physically present at the General Meeting are entitled to vote. Members participating passively via Zoom will not be able to vote or ask questions. To ensure that only eligible members can vote, avuba will check identities upon entry. Please arrive around 10 minutes before 6:00 pm, as the verification process may take some time. A list of all members eligible to vote will be available at the venue.

If you attend via Zoom
In this case, you will receive the link a few days before the meeting. Please note that your participation will be passive, meaning you will not be able to vote or ask questions.

Application and election
As mentioned in the agenda, you you can get actively involved in avuba and stand for election at the General Meeting:

avuba co-presidents 2026
The avuba co-presidents will be elected for a one-year term by the participating avuba members at the General Meeting. avuba co-presidents are working with a 20% workload and are remunerated in accordance with the University of Basel doc 2 tariff. The salary can be paid out as a fee. The co-presidium is part of the avuba executive board and ideally consists of one doctoral researcher and one postdoc from different faculties. Good German language skills are highly recommended, since most university documents are written in German and most meetings take place in German. For more information regarding the task as avuba co-president, you can read the job description (English link, German link). All candidates will get a chance to present themselves at the general assembly before the vote. The two people with the majority of votes will be elected as co-presidents for 2026. The current avuba co-president Tomás Sousa, doctoral researcher at Faculty of Natural Sciences, will stand for another year.

Additional avuba board member 2026
Anyone who would like to get actively involved with avuba can run for election as an additional member of the avuba board on 24 November 2025. According to the avuba bylaws (paragraph 8 and 9), this is a voluntary position and is unpaid like everybody else at the avuba executive board with the exception of the co-presidents.

For further questions, you can contact the current avuba co-presidents, your Faculty representative or the avuba administrative managers. 

If you would like to stand for election, please write a short motivation e-mail to Patricia at avuba@clutterunibas.ch by 15 November 2025.

Best regards from your current avuba co-presidents,

Tomás and Antonia