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

¹ Con­tri­bu­tions are paid for build­ing con­struc­tion if the build­ing pro­ject:

a.

costs more than CHF 5 mil­lion;

b.

is cost-ef­fect­ive;

c.

sat­is­fies the re­quire­ments for the al­loc­a­tion of tasks and co­oper­a­tion among high­er edu­ca­tion in­sti­tu­tions;

d.

meets strin­gent en­vir­on­ment­al and en­ergy ef­fi­ciency stand­ards; and

e.

in­cludes fa­cil­it­ated ac­cess for the dis­abled.

² Con­tri­bu­tions for build­ing us­age are paid if:

a.

us­age en­tails re­cur­ring costs ex­ceed­ing CHF 300,000;

b.

us­age has been agreed for a peri­od of at least five years;

c.

us­age is cost-ef­fect­ive;

d.

us­age sat­is­fies the re­quire­ments for the al­loc­a­tion of tasks and co­oper­a­tion among high­er edu­ca­tion in­sti­tu­tions;

e.

the build­ing used meets strin­gent en­vir­on­ment­al and en­ergy ef­fi­ciency stand­ards; and

f.

the build­ing used in­cludes fa­cil­it­ated ac­cess for the dis­abled.