The University of Lugano (Università della Svizzera italiana-USI) was founded in 1996. As a public institution independent of state control, it joined the nine cantonal universities and two federal institutes of technology that form the Swiss university system. It distinguishes itself as the only university outside Italy where the official language of tuition is Italian.

Today, USI comprises four Faculties: Economics, Communication Sciences and Computer Science in Lugano, and Architecture in Mendrisio, for a total student population of approximately 1550 from 35 different countries, and a total teaching staff of 300 professors and assistants.

Benefiting from a unique geographic, political, and cultural location, USI has gained distinction as a multilingual and multicultural university, with a broad international outlook. It enjoys privileged relations with several Italian universities, particularly with those located in Northern Italy , and has built special collaborative or exchange partnerships with a number of foreign universities in Europe and elsewhere.

The institute involved in this project is the Health Care Communication Laboratory

 

The University Hospital Basel (uhbs) is one of Switzerland's leading university medical centers. It offers treatment in all medical fields and consists of 52 entities including clinics, units, institutes and central services.

All the clinics are committed to practicing innovative medicine, while simultaneously being a clinical facility for teaching and research. There is a high standard of quality assurance.

The clinical concept that a person's physical, psychological and social well-being are of prime importance is paramount at University Hospital Basel. In addition, it offers the most up-to-date treatment methods for such varied diagnoses as "simple" cuts and fractures to severe brain injuries and complex cardiovascular problems, 365 days a year, 7 days a week, 24 hours a day.

The university as a mark of quality is a tradition in Basel. It was founded in 1460 and is the oldest university in Switzerland. Today the University Hospital Basel acts a teaching hospital for 1050 students of medicine and dentistry each year.

Basel is known throughout the world as the home of leading international chemical and pharmaceutical industries which greatly contribute to the field of life sciences. This has been very advantageous for the University Hospital Basel, since it consistently promotes academic exchange and clinical consultation.

The University Hospital Basel prides itself in having a beautiful ambience and a top service. Situated in the very center of the city where a large, well-tended park is one of its finest recreation facilities.

The institute involved in this project is the Department of Psychosomatic Medicine/Internal Medicine

With its seven faculties (theology and religious studies, law, arts, social and political science, economics and business administration, earth sciences and environment, and also biology and medicine) and 2,200 teachers, researchers and scientific collaborators, the University of Lausanne offers a wide range of high quality undergraduate and post-graduate courses (350 at the moment). The student population now stands at about 10,000, two thousand of whom have been attracted to this university from abroad (86 different countries).

Emphasis is placed on an interdisciplinary approach and there is close cooperation between students, professors and teaching staff.

Dating from the foundation of the Academy in 1537, the University of Lausanne, together with the Federal Polytechnic of Lausanne, now forms a vast campus devoted to teaching and research, whose influence extends far beyond the frontiers of Switzerland.

The University of Lausanne is an active and internationally recognised centre of research where more than 100 million Swiss francs are annually invested in projects developed by 125 different research teams.

The institute involved in this project is the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales

 

The University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI) is one of the 7 Universities of Applied Sciences in Switzerland (Fachhochschule, haute école spécialisée, university of applied sciences). It has a university statute, focused on professional training and applied research. Together with the University of Southern Switzerland (USI), to which it is closely linked in terms of collaboration activities and common institutions, it is the only Italian language university pole in Switzerland, with almost 4,000 students in the Lugano region.
The distinguishing features of SUPSI are that it provides study opportunities to those who have already gained some professional experience and who continue to operate in a professional capacity, that the teaching program incorporates full-time lecturers-researchers and part-time professional operators, that it offers a wide range of continuous courses to those operating professionally, and that it conducts applied research projects in collaboration with companies and institutions in the region

The institute involved in this project is the Scuola superiore per le formazioni sanitarie