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Here you will find small and large reports in German about our programme, our participants and members, our challenges and success stories as well as testimonials from mentees and mentors.
SEET in the media
Current episode of the German Podcast - an interview about SEET! Sandra and Virpi's German Podcast features an interview with Annika, a member of the SEET team. The episode is about the question why support programmes like SEET are needed and what difficulties refugee women face when studying in Switzerland.
An article in the International Association of Mathematical Physics (IAMP) News Bulletin in April 2022 features two of our mentees and their journey towards a degree in physics and chemistry. IAMP is an association that has been promoting research in mathematical physics since 1976. The latest issue of their newsletter focuses on women who have made important contributions in physics.
Manahil Mohammed, mentee at SEET, is a physicist and well on finding her way back to her professional passion. For the article of the Zürcher Regionalzeitung (October 2020, also published in the 12 app), she tells about the hurdles on the way to her professional goals and how SEET supports her in overcoming them. At the moment, language is the main focus for the scientist: Manahil not only needs German but also English at C1 level to complement her Master's degree from Sudan with a Master's degree in Zurich.
An article in the Zürichsee-Zeitung of July 2020 reports about our mentee Simin Abdulkarim on her difficult path to taking up a Master's degree in chemistry in Zurich. Simin Abdulkarim has already earned a Bachelor's degree in chemistry in Syria and subsequently worked there as a chemistry and physics teacher. Here in Switzerland, now that her daughter has reached kindergarten age, she would like to finally pursue her chemistry career. However, she has to fight for this, because the Bachelor's degree certificate was lost due to the war, a missing current passport and the lack of a Bachelor's thesis in the Syrian curriculum initially lead to rejection by universities or language examination institutes.
An article in the ETH student newspaper Polykum of 2019 shows in an anonymized form the difficulties one of our mentees encountered when applying for her Master's degree (at that time still in the predecessor programme Back on Track, before SEET was founded). Before being accepted into our programme, she had already applied several times to several Swiss universities, but the lack of study places, where Swiss students have priority in the allocation of places, always led to rejection. After an interview at the University of Zurich, it finally worked out, even though there were still financial hurdles at the beginning of her studies. Since then, she has been studying successfully and is incredibly happy, and challenged.
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