Vision 

We are an engaged university at the heart of political and social life in Switzerland. We take a practical and inquisitive approach to expanding horizons and to teaching, researching and shaping the future of a responsible society.

Mission

• As a diverse university, we pool our resources and skills to carefully help shape the transformation towards a sustainable, digitally literate, health-conscious and intergenerationally just society.
• Our students and employees generate a social impact with their actions. We make our mark regionally, nationally and internationally with our future-relevant topics and aspire to thematic leadership in specific fields.
• We combine artistic, scientific and socio-scientific approaches, encourage cross-disciplinary collaboration and thus develop new ways to tackle complex challenges in teaching and research.
• We actively participate in national and international science networks and promote transnational and intercultural skills and collaboration.