Strategic vision
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What UNIL aims to offer its partners:
- For its students, lifelong learners and society in general, UNIL aims to be accessible to everyone and to provide high-quality education, all in an open and secure environment. It aims to support its students in their transition to employment and to ensure that society benefits from its activities.
- UNIL is at the service of public authorities, the economy and cultural circles and is committed to supporting the development of socially relevant skills through the education it offers. It shares scientifically rigorous expertise and participates in public debate.
- It offers its staff a high-quality working environment, conducive to career development, including continuing education and project development. It emphasises collective excellence and institutional social commitment.
The Rectorate's objectives for the coming years are set out in the Statement of Intent, as an extension and embodiment of the values set out in its institutional Charter.
The challenges posed by multiple societal transitions, the emergence of new knowledge, the occurrence of numerous crises and new ways of disseminating and using knowledge are calling into question the role and organisation of universities in our society.
In this context, UNIL has set itself the mission of offering cutting-edge life choices and educational and professional paths that are intellectually, socially and personally transformative.
UNIL engages its entire community and former students in using their knowledge to advance society.
We encourage and support students, staff, faculty and alumni to think collectively about how their research, study and professional lives will benefit their region, the world and humanity.
In this way, we will be able to inspire and accompany major societal changes so that our societies become safer, more secure and more stable in environmental, economic, social and cultural terms.
With "living knowledge", its institutional motto, and the development of collective intelligence, UNIL affirms that knowledge is never static and that it benefits the common good. What we take for granted must be constantly called into question by research that is permanently on the move in order to learn about increasingly complex realities.