Our partners
The University of Lausanne is a university that is not only at the heart of its city, but also of the canton, and plays an active role in shaping the world in the broadest possible sense. To this end, local and international partnerships are forged to encourage cross-disciplinary and cross-border collaboration.
Partners of the Canton of Vaud and the City of Lausanne
- State of Vaud
- Canton of Vaud Department of Education and Young People (DFJ)
- Lausanne University Hospital - CHUV
- Unisanté, Lausanne University Centre for General Medicine and Public Health
- City of Lausanne
State partners
- Swiss Confederation (CH)
- Federal Department of Home Affairs (DFI)
- State Secretariat for Education, Research, and Innovation (SERI)
- Confederation of Swiss University Rectors (CRUS)
Other partners
Other associated foundations
Associated institutes
- Biopôle
- FORS - Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences
- Corporate Law Centre (CEDIDAC)
- Swiss Vaccine Research Institute
- Swiss Bioinformatics Institute
- Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research (ISREC)
- Swiss Institute of Comparative Law (SICL)
- Swiss Institute for the Study of Art
- International Institute for Management Development (IMD)
- Swiss Laboratory for Doping Analyses (LAD)
- Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Lausanne Branch
- Observatory of Religions in Switzerland
NCCRs - National Centres of Competence in Research
The Culture and Scientific Mediation Department (SCMS) develops cultural and scientific mediation programmes in the humanities, social sciences, life sciences and the environment.
Information resources and archives partnerships
The Vaud Cantonal Archives, the City of Lausanne Archives, the Cantonal and University Library, the think tank, academic and museum partners - a dense and diverse network at the service of living knowledge.
International networks and initiatives
UNIL is an active member of several university networks, whose aim is to cooperate in the areas of student mobility, teaching and/or scientific research.
The University is also involved in a number of international initiatives, encouraging its students to collaborate on projects with international peers on forward-looking themes.
Preferred partnerships with other universities
UNIL's aim is to put in place stronger agreements that will enable close and ambitious exchanges in teaching, research and governance, while developing collaborations with other institutions.
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Lancaster University
Synergies in the fields of geosciences, English literature and management, particularly around the theme of the responsible future.
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Université Libre de Bruxelles
Partnership supported by the development of new areas of collaboration (impetus funds for research projects, PhD days, etc.).
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Laval University
Collaboration in education, research and governance. The joint research fund provides funding for joint research projects.
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University of Padua
UNIL and the University of Padua are partners with more than 40 ongoing collaborations, and launched their first call for joint projects in 2021.