IDHEAP - Research

Research

The IDHEAP teaching and research units participate in research projects financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation and R&D financed by the Commission for Technology and Innovation or the European Union four-year Information Society Technologies framework programs. Some research receives support from programs such as the Swiss Virtual Campus, the Interreg fund (European Cross-border Cooperation) or COST – European Cooperation in the Field of Scientific and Technical Research. Part of the research work carried out at IDHEAP is financed by consulting or experts’ fees.

33 research projects are currently under way at the school. Recent examples include:

  • BADAC (http://www.badac.ch/), a Database of the Swiss States and Cities, funded by the Conference of Cantonal Chancellors
  • Conditions for a joint representation of the scope for public action on a local level, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation
  • eGOV (integrated platform for an online, one-stop government), 5th IST (Information Society Technologies) framework program, for the European Union
  • Modelling transport in Switzerland, for the Swiss Federal Statistical Office
  • MOTOWN – Workey (a workflow designer and builder), for the Commission for Technology and Innovation
  • Income and public spending and its impact on budgetary balance and econometric modelling, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation
  • Institutional regimes for urban resources, IRIS project (integration, regulation and social innovations) for the Lake Geneva triangle
  • Sports Organisation Management Interactive Teaching (or SOMIT), funded by Swiss virtual campus
  • Actors’ strategies regarding ongoing training, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (National Research Project 43)
  • The Swiss Decision Making System in the Era of Globalization, for the Swiss National Science Foundation (Priority Program “Switzerland Tomorrow”).

IDHEAP publishes a full list of research projects on its website, at http://www.idheap.ch/idheap.nsf/vwBaseDocuments/IdREx01?OpenDocument&lng=en.

Five new research projects were awarded to IDHEAP in 2007 by the Swiss National Fund for Research. In 2007, three doctorates of Public Administration were awarded by the University of Lausanne on the recommendation of IDHEAP.

Also in 2007, the university's Prof. Giuliano Bonoli was awarded the Latsis prize by the Swiss National Research Fund for his comparative research works on social policies.

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