4. Arrival & starting your stay
Description
- In Swiss German, your student card is called "Legi".
- Your card is valid beyond the end of the semester, which also applies to your matriculation confirmation. Nevertheless, you only have student status at ETH for the duration you find in Mobility-Online (regardless of the validity date on your card). The departure date of your mobility stay is also relevant for your residence permit and determines when you will be dematriculated.
- You may have to validate your card by the end of its validity period.
Procedure
- Enrol at least one week before your arrival in myStudies.
- Make an appointment with the Reception Service.
- At the earliest, you can pick up your student card on 1 September at the desk of the Student Exchange Office.
- If you have applied to the D-BSSE in Basel, pick it up there. The details are in the fact sheet below.
- Bring a picture ID (passport or ID card) with you. Only if you can identify yourself will you receive your student card.
Procedure
This varies on your current place of residency.
You do not already live in Switzerland
You need a residence permit, regardless of citizenship or visa requirement.
You already live in Switzerland
You should have a valid Swiss residence permit and therefore have two options: “Wochenaufenthalt” (weekly commuter) or “Kantonswechsel” (change of canton, to be applied for in advance).
Always keep your address up to date.
Note:
- Post is only delivered if the name of the recipient is on the letterbox. Either put your name on the letterbox or (if you are subletting) have your post sent c/o to the name of your proprietor. Include your room or flat number if there is one (e.g. in student residences).
- Inform the responsible Residents’ Registration Office, your health insurance company, your bank or post office, FCS, and the Reception Service as well as any other office you maintain business with of any address change.
First two instalments
- From 1 September you can pick up your first two instalments at the cash desk (room HG F 67.1, main building / "Hauptgebäude").
- Potential support for rental cost of CHF 300 will be paid one-time with your first scholarship instalment.
Further instalments
- Add your Swiss PostFinance or bank account details in Mobility-Online no later than four weeks after your arrival. (AVETH's "survival guide" offers information on banks if you want to inform yourself.)
- From the third instalment, the payment will be transfered to your Swiss PostFinance or bank account (if you have entered the details in Mobility-Online).
Description
- If you have purchased Half-Fare travelcard (or a GA travelcard) from SBB will receive CHF 185 refund paid by FCS.
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Procedure
This depends on whether you can and want to apply for a refund.
You have no basis for refund
If you you have no intention to purchase such a travelcard or if your supervisor or institute has already paid for it, inform the reception service.
You want to request a refund
Follow the steps below.
- Upload in the workflow of Mobility-Online one PDF file that merges the following:
- Scan from the back and front side of your Half-Fare travelcard (or GA travelcard)
- Original receipt that shows the sum paid and your name
- You can only upload one PDF.
- If you do not hand in the PDF on time, you forfeit your right to receive a refund.
- The money will then be transferred to your bank or post account until the end of December at the latest.
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If you have purchased Half-Fare travelcard (or a GA travelcard) from SBB, you will be refunded the amount of the initial purchase price for a Half-Fare travelcard (not the price for a GA travelcard).
- Request the approval of the reception service when you want to travel abroad or in the case of any other absence from the place of study for more than two weeks.
- Vacations must be discussed with your supervisor and can be taken.
Where can I ...
- chevron_right use WLAN in ETH's buildings and how?
- chevron_right find a workspace?
- chevron_right scan or print documents?
- chevron_right eat around campus?
- chevron_right learn about transport (public transport, shuttle bus between the Zurich campuses, cycling)?
- chevron_right find the ETH Library?
- chevron_right shop for ETH merch, IT supplies or get a hair cut?
Anmerkung sbe
- Die "Assistance for your start at ETH"-Seite wird teilweise (Akkordeon, Foto) und "Tipps for living in Switzerland" komplett von den Austausch-Seiten automatisch übernommen. Darum können sie nicht (oder nur äusserst beschränkt) auf SGES/BS angepasst werden. (Bei Project ist es gleich gelöst.)
- "Where can I ..." gekürzt im Vergleich zur Welcome-Seite, weil...
- "find the different ETH buildings?": bereits auf "Assistance for your start at ETH"
- "park my bike [...]", "learn the timetable of the shuttle bus [...]", "learn about the Swiss public transport system [...]": zusammengefasst in "learn about about transport [...]" mit Link auf "Living in Switzerland"
- "work out, sign up for various sport programmes, etc.?": bereits auf "Assistance for your start at ETH"
Next step
chevron_right 5. Ending your stayQuellen (bei Interesse)
- https://ethz.ch/en/studies/non-degree-courses/project/arrival-start.html
- https://ethz.ch/en/studies/non-degree-courses/exchange/downloads/welcome/sges-research.html
- Downloadhttps://ethz.ch/content/dam/ethz/main/education/non-degree/mobilitaet/sges/points-of-contact-sges.pdf (PDF, 141 KB)vertical_align_bottom: Adressanpassung, passt auf Arrival-Seite besser als bei "Points of contact"
- "S:\AkD\Mobilitaet\Kommunikation\Aufträge_int\zws\SGES\Webseite\Quellen\01_LetterOfAcceptance_BSresEN.pdf - Verknüpfung.lnk" (kommentiert)
- \\nas12.ethz.ch\id_sdl_zo_data\AkD\Mobilitaet\Kommunikation\Aufträge_int\zws\SGES\Mobon\Forschungsaufenthalt\231030_Übersicht-FA.docx (Übersicht Mobon-Mails FA; teilweise identisch zu anderen Stipendienarten)