Federal Act
on Funding and Coordination of the Swiss
(Higher Education Act, HEdA)

¹ The Con­fed­er­a­tion works with the Can­tons to co­ordin­ate, main­tain the qual­ity and en­sure the com­pet­it­ive­ness of the en­tire high­er edu­ca­tion sec­tor in Switzer­land.

² For this pur­pose, the present Act es­tab­lishes the ba­sic prin­ciples ap­ply­ing to the fol­low­ing:

a.

co­ordin­a­tion of the en­tire Swiss high­er edu­ca­tion sec­tor, par­tic­u­larly through the spe­cific­a­tion of joint bod­ies;

b.

qual­ity con­trol and ac­cred­it­a­tion;

c.

fund­ing of high­er edu­ca­tion in­sti­tu­tions and oth­er in­sti­tu­tions with­in the high­er edu­ca­tion sec­tor;

d.

al­loc­a­tion of tasks in par­tic­u­larly costly areas;

e.

grant­ing of fed­er­al con­tri­bu­tions.