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

¹ Basing them­selves on this Act and on the In­ter­can­t­on­al Agree­ment on Co­oper­a­tion in High­er Edu­ca­tion, the Con­fed­er­a­tion and the Can­tons shall enter in­to a Co­oper­a­tion Agree­ment on ful­fil­ment of their re­spect­ive tasks.

² This Co­oper­a­tion Agree­ment shall cre­ate the joint bod­ies re­quired un­der this Act.

³ It may trans­fer the powers es­tab­lished in this Act to the joint bod­ies.

⁴ Un­less already es­tab­lished in cor­res­pond­ing pro­vi­sions in this Act, the Co­oper­a­tion Agree­ment shall reg­u­late the fol­low­ing:

a.

cla­ri­fic­a­tion and im­ple­ment­a­tion of shared ob­ject­ives;

b.

re­spons­ib­il­it­ies, struc­ture and pro­ced­ures of joint bod­ies.

⁵ If the Co­oper­a­tion Agree­ment con­tra­dicts a pro­vi­sion con­tained in this Act, the Act shall take pre­ced­ence.

⁶ This Co­oper­a­tion Agree­ment shall be signed by the Fed­er­al Coun­cil on be­half of the Con­fed­er­a­tion.