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

¹ The High­er Edu­ca­tion Coun­cil shall cre­ate the fol­low­ing bod­ies for the pur­pose of pre­par­ing de­cisions:

a.

one stand­ing com­mit­tee re­spons­ible for mat­ters per­tain­ing to med­ic­al re­search and study pro­grammes at high­er edu­ca­tion in­sti­tu­tions;

b.

one stand­ing com­mit­tee com­prised of rep­res­ent­at­ives of pro­fes­sion­al or­gan­isa­tions;

c.

oth­er stand­ing and non-stand­ing com­mit­tees as needs re­quire.

² These com­mit­tees may also com­prise per­sons who are not mem­bers of the Swiss Con­fer­ence of High­er Edu­ca­tion In­sti­tu­tions.

³ The stand­ing com­mit­tee com­pris­ing rep­res­ent­at­ives of pro­fes­sion­al or­gan­isa­tions shall take a stance on the af­fairs of the Swiss Con­fer­ence of High­er Edu­ca­tion In­sti­tu­tions un­der Art­icle 11 para­graph 2 and Art­icle 12 para­graph 3.

⁴ The stand­ing com­mit­tees men­tioned in Art­icle 15 para­graph 1 let­ters a and b above may, at their own ini­ti­at­ive or on be­half of the Swiss Con­fer­ence of High­er Edu­ca­tion In­sti­tu­tions, take a stance on in­di­vidu­al de­vel­op­ments af­fect­ing na­tion­al high­er edu­ca­tion policy and may sub­mit pro­pos­als.

⁵ The Presi­di­um of the Swiss Con­fer­ence of High­er Edu­ca­tion In­sti­tu­tions shall main­tain ties with the stand­ing com­mit­tees men­tioned in Art­icle 15 para­graph 1 let­ters a and b above. It shall peri­od­ic­ally or­gan­ise gath­er­ings with these two com­mit­tees.