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

¹ The High­er Edu­ca­tion Coun­cil shall de­cide on co­ordin­a­tion of the en­tire Swiss high­er edu­ca­tion sec­tor and the al­loc­a­tion of tasks in par­tic­u­larly costly areas. It shall de­term­ine the cor­res­pond­ing pri­or­it­ies as well as the meas­ures that must be taken throughout the high­er edu­ca­tion sec­tor in or­der to reach com­mon ob­ject­ives.

² It shall peri­od­ic­ally provide the cor­res­pond­ing fed­er­al and can­ton­al au­thor­it­ies with an up­date on the amount of fund­ing needed to reach these ob­ject­ives.

³ It may provide for meas­ures to be taken to ex­pand study op­tions that serve the in­terests of the whole of Switzer­land but which are not yet ad­equately offered by in­di­vidu­al high­er edu­ca­tion in­sti­tu­tions.