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

¹ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may sign in­ter­na­tion­al agree­ments on be­half of the high­er edu­ca­tion sec­tor for:

a.

in­ter­na­tion­al co­oper­a­tion, par­tic­u­larly the struc­tur­ing of stud­ies as well as re­cog­ni­tion of stud­ies, qual­i­fic­a­tions and equi­val­en­cies with­in the high­er edu­ca­tion sec­tor;

b.

meas­ures to en­cour­age in­ter­na­tion­al mo­bil­ity;

c.

par­ti­cip­a­tion in in­ter­na­tion­al sup­port pro­grammes and pro­jects.

² In the in­ter­na­tion­al agree­ments men­tioned in para­graph 1, the Fed­er­al Coun­cil may also agree on:

a.

fin­an­cial con­trols and audits;

b.

per­son­al safety in­spec­tions;

c.

the pro­tec­tion and as­sign­ment of in­tel­lec­tu­al prop­erty arising from or re­quired for sci­entif­ic co­oper­a­tion;

d.

fed­er­al par­ti­cip­a­tion in leg­al en­tit­ies es­tab­lished un­der pub­lic law or private law;

e.

mem­ber­ship with in­ter­na­tion­al or­gan­isa­tions.

³ Un­der the terms of the Co­oper­a­tion Agree­ment, the High­er Edu­ca­tion Coun­cil and the Swiss Con­fer­ence of Rect­ors of High­er Edu­ca­tion In­sti­tu­tions shall take part in pre­par­a­tions for such agree­ments. The Co­oper­a­tion Agree­ment shall es­tab­lish the con­di­tions for par­ti­cip­a­tion in this pro­cess.