Commentaries: Art. 59

Multi-annual project contributions may be paid for expenditures that serve national higher education policy interests.
Tasks that serve national higher education policy interests include the following in particular:
1. creation of national or regional competence centres jointly supported by several higher education institutions or other institutions within the higher education sector;
2. establishment of internationally prominent programmes;
3. development of profiles and allocation of tasks among higher education institutions;
4. measures to encourage multilingualism in Swiss national languages;
5. measures to encourage equal opportunities and true gender parity;
6. measures to encourage sustainable development for the benefit of current and future generations;
7. measures to encourage student participation in decision-making processes.
The Cantons as well as higher education institutions and other institutions within the higher education sector involved in the project must contribute their own resources to an adequate degree.
Project funding for universities of teacher education requires the involvement of several universities of applied sciences or cantonal universities or federal institutes of technology.