swissuniversities – a joint university institution

The main task of this institution, to begin with, is to gradually prepare the merger of the three conferences that currently exist – CRUS, KFH and COHEP – to form the joint national rectors’ conference of Swiss universities by the end of 2014. This new institution is proposed in the Swiss Higher Education Bill on the promotion of universities and coordination in Switzerland’s higher education sector (HFKG, german) due to come into force in 2015.
Furthermore, swissuniversities will endeavour to consolidate and further develop collaboration between the Swiss academic universities, universities of applied sciences and universities of teacher education und play a role in their coordination at national level. Since the beginning of 2013, it has been acting at an international level as national rectors' conference in the place of CRUS for all Swiss academic universities, universities of applied sciences and universities of teacher education. (Statutes, german). More...