Costs / Subsidies
ETH Zurich provides financial assistance for places in childcare provided by the external page kihz Foundation and a number of university-affiliated daycare centres.
Complementary childcare in Switzerland is expensive compared to other countries. In Switzerland, an unsubsidised toddler (from 18 months old) place costs around CHF 130 per day and an infant (up to 18 months) place up to CHF 180.
ETH provides additional support for parents with children up to the age of 18 months. ETH pays the difference between the infant and toddler rate at the daycare centres run by the kihz foundation. Parents are only charged the toddler rate (around CHF 130).
This subsidy is in addition to the subsidies provided by the Department of Education and Sport.
If parents are entitled to subsidised childcare, they must submit an external page application (German) to the City of Zurich’s Department of School and Sport, which then calculates the definitive external page contribution factor (German) based on the tax data available (the latest definitive tax invoice) or a tax simulation. The contribution factor is valid for one year. The parents receive a letter informing them of the contribution factor, which they then forward to their childcare facility's administration team. The facility draws up the childcare agreement and issues an invoice to the parents for the childcare service they have purchased, with the subsidiaries already taken into account.
City of Zurich's information on subsidies
external page Social Department of the City of Zurich: Apply for subsidies (German)Basel's information on subsidies
Information:
An increase in childcare contributions in Basel-Stadt is planned from August 2024. Parents should then pay the maximum amount of CHF 1600 per month.
In addition to the child's place of residence in the canton of Basel-Stadt, the prerequisite for entitlement to childcare contributions is attendance at a daycare center with childcare contributions also in the canton of Basel-Stadt.
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