The highly effective interplay of research and development creates an ideal foundation on which to nurture your company’s innovative strengths. Here in the Canton of Bern we have been promoting this type of collaboration for many years, with the support of key political and government players.
Here you’ll find an active knowledge and technology exchange network. Our cluster organizations promote knowledge sharing, there are many events offering excellent networking opportunities, and companies are able to develop their innovation projects in close collaboration with universities and research institutions.
The Canton of Bern offers all the benefits of the ideal innovation hub: a university with a teaching hospital, two universities of applied sciences across four campuses, a Federal Institute of Technology research center, a Switzerland Innovation Park network location, and an Haute Ecole Arc campus. And there are another seven universities less than an hour away.
University of Bern
Centrally located, the University of Bern is Switzerland’s third largest university with eight faculties, 160 institutes and around 17,000 students, just under 20% of whom are international.
Centers of Excellence at the University of Bern
The Centers of Excellence are interdisciplinary and/or transdisciplinary scientific networks, in which individual faculties and their researchers coordinate their work under joint strategic goals.
- Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics
- ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research
- Center for Cognition, Learning and Memory (CCLM)
- Centre for Development & Environment (CDE)
- Center for Regional Economic Development (CRED)
- Center for Space and Habitability (CSH)
- Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research (OCCR)
- Kompetenzzentrum für Public Management
- World Trade Institute (WTI)
Bern University of Applied Sciences
Bern University of Applied Sciences (BFH) is a practice-oriented university. Besides teaching, its core competences include continuing education and R&D. In applied research and development, the Bern University of Applied Sciences achieves valuable research results and channels these into innovations with market or social relevance. They are applicable equally to small and medium-sized enterprises, large corporations, public institutions and authorities, and cultural organizations.