We invite you cordially to the first «Get Connected»-event together with Swiss Re.

Swiss Re is a multicultural global reinsuring company with almost 12'000 employees worldwide and clients in more than 160 countries. As experts on capital and risk Swiss Re anticipates and analyses their clients' risks affecting busniess, society economy and environment. In 2000 Swiss Re founded the «Swiss Re Centre for Global Dialogue» - a forum which deals especially with global emerging risks such as for instance «global epidemics», «consequences of climate change».

Swiss Re offers a special program for graduate students called «graduate@swissre» and hires skilled biologists, biochemists, geographers, mathematicians and physicists.

As the world's leading and most diversified global reinsurer, Swiss Re offers financial services products that enable risk taking essential to enterprise and progress.
Founded in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1863, Swiss Re operates in more than 25 countries and provides its expertise and services to clients throughout the world. Swiss Re's traditional reinsurance products and related services for property and casualty as well as for life and health business are complemented by insurance-based corporate finance solutions and supplementary services for comprehensive risk management.
A company's sustainability practice and its reputational value are increasingly perceived as important drivers of business success. Swiss Re has firmly integrated sustainability practice into its corporate framework, thus creating economic value by improving its environmental and social performance beyond mere compliance with laws and regulations.
Swiss Re's international "graduates@swissre" programme offers graduates special training in their chosen careers. The programme runs for 18 months, combining general business learning modules with specific technical modules offering a unique and well rounded curriculum including analytical, communication and leadership skills development linked to Swiss Re's corporate principles and strategy

«Get Connected» is a newly launched series of events to bring science and business closer together. These events will give you the opportunity to see how science, scientific thinking and scientific approaches are used in the world of business. Furthermore the events will offer you the possibility of building up a network outside the University and therefore enhance your career chances after you have finished studying. «Get Connected» is organized by the Faculty of Science together with Science Alumni UZH, the faculty's Alumni organization. On this platform we shall bring leading and innovative Swiss based companies to you. «Get Connected» will take place three to four times per year.