IChO 2023 | Volunteers

BECOME A VOLUNTEER FOR IChO 2023

Curious to see how it all takes place in 2023? Wanna be part of this major event?

We are looking forward to your volunteering application!

No chemistry knowledge is required, the most important is your motivation to make the IChO 2023 a success.

Contributing your time and energy to the IChO will also bring you in touch with dozens of co-minded volunteers and up to 350 brightest minds in Chemistry. It will be rewarded by team building activities for volunteers and a work certificate you can use for your CV.

Your expenses like accommodation, meals, and transport expenses will be covered.

Above all, it will be ten days of fun and science feasts organized by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology – ETH Zurich and its partners.

We care for the environment - you should ideally reside in Switzerland or Liechtenstein to volunteer.

If you have any questions, send us an email to info@icho2023.ch

Please, click here to apply for a volunteer position:

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We are looking for these volunteers

Team Guide

As a reference person for the 15 to 19 year old students of the almost 90 delegations, the Team Guide is the business card of the organization. Fun and exchange characterize the assignment, but the guide is also responsible for the small and big worries of the guests and enables the participants a carefree stay. Towards the teams, the Team Guide is the person who gives information and accompanies the students during the entire programme. There is one team guide per team of four students, but small delegations are grouped together. The intention is to assign a Team Guide to each team with appropriate language skills of the team.

Requirements: Enjoyment of intercultural encounters, ability to work under pressure, solution-oriented understanding of service, foreign languages.

Required availability: During the entirety of the event and one day before for a kick-off meeting (15 - 25 July 2023).

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Mentor Guide

As a reference person for the up to 300 mentors, observers, and visitors (often chemistry professors or teachers of the almost 90 delegations), the Mentor Guide is the business card of the organization. Fun and exchange characterize the assignment, but the Guide is also responsible for the small and big worries of the guests and enables the participants a carefree stay. Towards the mentors, observers and visitors, the Mentor Guide is the person who provides information and accompanies them during the entire programme. A Mentor Guide is not assigned to specific mentors, observers or visitors, but can be approached by any mentor, observer or visitor at the respective event location.

Requirements: Enjoyment of intercultural encounters, ability to work under pressure, solution-oriented understanding of service, foreign languages.

Required availability: During the entirety of the event and one day before for a kick-off meeting (15 - 25 July 2023).

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Scientific Assistant

Scientific Assistants support the Scientific Committee in its work (e.g. setting up & dismantling examination infra-structure, helping to run the exams, printing & scanning examinations, general trouble-shooting). Scientific Assistants are managed and trained by the Scientific Committee.

Requirements: Ideally chemistry students, staff, teachers or former Chemistry Olympiad participants, ability to work under pressure, solution-oriented understanding of service, English or German a must, other foreign languages an advantage.

Required availability: Part-time engagement or working on certain days only leading up to and during the event, e.g. volunteering before the official start of the event for helping with the setup of practical and theoretical examinations, earliest 3 July and latest until 28 July 2023.

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Media

3 volunteers as assistants video/photo

During the IChO days (16-25 July 2023), there will be three video teams capturing the activities and special moments of the day. Many activities will take place in Zurich, but there will also be program points all around Switzerland.

If you love making videos and photos and you wish to support our team, let us know. As the video and photo team members come from the French-speaking part of Switzerland, fluent French is an advantage.

If you want, you can already join the team and create content that will be shared on our website and social media before the IChO. Then you can also be part of the planning and shaping the video and photo concept, few weeks before the IChO. Last volunteering day will be Tuesday, 25 July.

2 to 3 writer volunteers

We are searching 2 writer volunteers who would be an addition to our newsletter team.

During the IChO days (16-25 July 2023), the newsletter called Catalyzer will be published daily. Language is English and there will be articles, current information, interviews, photos etc. The writer volunteers will also accompany the participants on their excursions – e.g. to cities, mountains, or event partners.

If your passion is writing and you have first experiences in writing short articles for an international target group, then come and be part of our team. then let us know.

Ideally you can join the team already in May and June for a few hours monthly. Then you can also be part of the editorial planning and helping to shape the newsletter. The newsletter team will then start working around 13 July before the IChO participants arrive on 16 July. Last volunteering day will be Tuesday, 25 July.

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Event

The Event Volunteer supports the organizing committee in the implementation of the various events and excursions during the IChO days.

Requirements: Experience in the implementation of events and excursions as well as execution of administrative tasks, organizational talent, solution-oriented understanding of service, foreign languages an advantage.

Required availability: During the entirety of the event and one day before for a kick-off meeting (15 - 25 July 2023).