According to the resolution of General Meeting of 27.11.2023, avuba will support projects twice a year with a total of 5,000 francs, i.e. 10,000 francs per year. The following guidelines appyl until further notice.

Guiding principle

By assistants for assistants 

Purpose

Projects are to encourage community building and the expansion of the network of assistants.

Criteria

• At least 8 people are to benefit from the funding, of whom at least 50% should be assistants at the University of Basel.
• Applications, including reasons and a provisional project budget, must be sent via e-mail to avuba@clutterunibas.ch. The application must cover the following points: Who? What? When? Where? For whom?
• A final report of half an A4 page is to be submitted together with receipts. The report must include how many assistants from which areas have participated.

Additional criteria

• avuba can contribute a maximum of 500 francs to internal faculty events. 1,000 francs may be allocated to cross-faculty events.
• Each faculty receives a minimum of 500 francs per year.
• The remaining funds will be distributed according to the proportion of avuba members per faculty. The distribution key will be updated once a year. For 2024, the formula is: Phil-Nat 38%, Medicine 35%, Phil-Hist 15%, Law 4%, Psychology and Economics 3% each, Theology 2%.
• If a faculty does not spend its money it will be distributed to the other faculties.
• If not enough projects eligible for support are received each semester, avuba can use the remaining funds to organise and finance central cross-faculty networking events, e.g. a guided tour of the city followed by an apéro.

Administration

• All applications submitted by May 31 and November 30 will be reviewed by the avuba board. After that, the funds for all accepted projects are allocated which means payed out in June or December respectively.
• As of the end of November, applications can only be submitted for projects that are planned within the next 7 months, i.e. up to and including the end of June next year.
• As of the end of May, funding can only be requested for projects that are to take place up to and including the end of December of the same year.
• Funds for projects approved by the avuba board must be spent within the next 12 months, otherwise the entitlements expire.
• Each project will be listed on the avuba website.
• Furniture/movables cannot be financed.

Application received in May 2024

• Assistants DBM (medicine and science) 13. Postdoc Network Meeting 2024, Klosters-Davos, October 2024
• Assistants DBM (medicine and science) Women-In-Science Apéro, Basel, June 2024
• Assistants Biozentrum, DBM, Pharma (medicine and science) Life Science Event/Party, Basel, May 2024
• Assistants UPK (med), Boat summer group activity, Thun, August 2024
• Assistants Biozentrum (science), Kyak rafting class, Huningue, September 2024
• Assistants DSBG (med), Alpaka-Trekking, October 2024
• Assistants Swiss TPH (medicine and science), PhD Summer Retreat, im August 2024
• Assistants UPK (med), PhD Sports Day, Basel, September 2024

Application received in November 2023

• Assistants of the Swiss TPH (cross-faculty project: medicine and science), PhD winter retreat, in March 2024
• Assistants of the Department of Chemistry, ski weekend, in January 204
• Assistants of the Faculty of Theology, conference fee of the assistants for the faculty conference, in May 2024
• Assistants of the DBE (cross-faculty project: medicine and science), DBE networking event, in April 2024

Application received in May 2023

• Assistants of the Bio- and Pharmacenter (science), 14. PhD retreat, September 2023
• Assistants - for all PhD's & Postdocs of the faculties of Law and Business & Economics (cross-faculty project of law and b&e), 4 x Networking Apéro, first one in June 2023
• Assistants of the cross-faculty project (medicine und science), DBE PhD Networking event, May 2023
• Assistants in Zoology (science), Alpaka-trekking, Summer 2023
• Assistants of the DSBG Deparment (medicine), DSBG PhD-Workshop, July 2023
• Assistants of the Sinues Lab (medicine), group hiking day, June 2023
• Assistants of the Faculty of Psychology, BEACON conference, September 2023
• Assistants of the IBMB Institute (cross-faculty project: medicine, science and humanities), boat trip & apero, June 2023
• Assistants of the Swiss TPH (cross-faculty project: medicine and science), PhD Summer Retreat, October 2023
• Assistants of the Katapodi Lab (medicine), boat trip, August 2023
• Assistants of Egyptology (humanities), conference, September 2023
• Assistants des IBMB Phil-Hist (cross-faculty project: medicine, science and humanities), academic writing retreat, February 2023

Application received in November 2022

• Assistants of the Swiss TPH (cross-faculty project: medicine and science), PhD winter retreat, in February/March 2023
• Assistants of the DUW Department, Samichlaus networking event, in December 2022
• Assistants of the Department of Chemistry, ski weekend, in January 2023
• Assistants of the Faculty of Theology, conference fee of the assistants for the faculty conference, in May 2023
• Assistants of the DBM Flow Team (cross-faculty project: medicine and science), DBM networking event, in December 2022

Application received in May 2022

• Assistants of the Swiss TPH, PhD Hiking Weekend (cross-faculty project: medicine and science), in August/September 2022
• Assistants of the Faculty of Psychology, BEACON conferenz, in September 2022
• Assistants of the Faculty of Humanities, dance workshop (cross-faculty project: humanities and DSBG), in July 2022
• Assistants of the Department of Nursing Science, foxtrail in Basel, in April 2022 (application from 2019)