Official documents
Please note that some legal texts are currently under review in order to adapt them to the latest version of the Statute of the Università della Svizzera italiana, approved on 20 March 2020.
For any information or request regarding the currency of the legal texts, please contact [email protected].
The organisational structure and USI activities are regulated by the statutes, regulations and guidelines on this page and are regularly submitted to the Parliament of the Republic and Canton of Ticino through an annual activity report.
Law on USI
- Law on the Università della Svizzera italiana, the University of Applied Sciences and Research Institutes (in Italian)
- Regulations on the Law on the Università della Svizzera italiana, the University of Applied Sciences and Research Institute (in Italian)
Statutes
- Statute of the Università della Svizzera italiana (pdf, in Italian)
- Statute of the Academy of Architecture (in Italian)
- Statute of the Faculty of Biomedical Sciences (pdf, in Italian)
- Statute of the Faculty of Communication, Culture and Society (pdf)
- Statute of the Faculty of Economics (pdf, in Italian)
- Statute of the Faculty of Informatics (pdf, in Italian)
- Statute of the Faculty of Theology of Lugano - affiliated (pdf, in Italian)
Regulations of central bodies
- Regolamento CU (pdf, in Italian)
- Regolamento Revisione interna (pdf, in Italian)
- Regolamento Senato (pdf, in Italian)
- Regolamento Rettorato (pdf, in Italian)
- Regolamento del Comitato di transizione (pdf)
Education
- General regulations for admission and enrolment at USI (pdf)
- Sectoral Regulations for limitation of admission to medical studies at the Università della Svizzera italiana (pdf)
- Examination directive for students with identified specific learning needs (pdf)
- Directive for the organisation and conducting of inter-Faculty examinations or examinations within the framework of inter-Faculty programmes (pdf)
- Directive for appointing a Master’s Executive Advisory Board (pdf, in Italian)
- Field project directive (pdf, in Italian)
- Provisions on the use of teaching material by students (pdf)
- Provisions on reading and filing all documents related to background checks, enrolment, and exams carried out by the Faculties (in Italian)
For provisions of the Faculties on education, please refer to the following pages:
- Academy of Architecture
- Faculty of Biomedical Sciences
- Faculty of Communication, Culture and Society
- Faculty of Economics
- Faculty of Informatics
- Faculty of Theology of Lugano - affiliated
Commissions and representatives
For provisions on the elections of students, PhDs, post-doc and lecturers representatives of the Faculties please refer to the following pages:
- Academy of Architecture
- Faculty of Biomedical Sciences (to be defined)
- Faculty of Communication, Culture and Society
- Faculty of Economics
- Faculty of Informatics
Staff
- General regulations on the general working conditions of academic staff (pdf, in Italian)
- General regulations for the promotion and tenure of academic staff (pdf, in Italian)
- Regulations on the general working conditions of administrative, library, technical and auxilary staff - Collective Employment Agreement (in Italian)
- Regulations on relevant external relationships for USI image (in Italian)
- General regulations on power of attorney (Regolamento generale per il diritto di firma) (pdf, in Italian)
- Direttiva per la definizione della tempistica dei corsi nei vari suoi aspetti (pdf, in Italian)
- Directive on the management of funded R&D projects (pdf)
- Direttiva sul mandato e sul ruolo del mediatore dell'Università (pdf)
- Provisions on indemnities and compensation
- Disposizioni per il sostegno alla mobilità dei dottorandi (pdf)
- Provisions on conducting administrative staff motivational interviews (pdf, in Italian)
- Protection provisions for COVID-19 (pdf)
- Open Access Policy Guidelines of Università della Svizzera italiana (pdf)
Security and privacy
- General regulations on processing and protection of personal data at USI (in Italian)
- General regulations on video surveillance at USI (in Italian)
- Provisions on using the University computer network
Infrastructures
For all administrative regulations of Mendrisio Campus infrastructure (Academy of Architecture), please refer to this page.
Annual activity report
All USI annual activity reports are available at this page and they are currently in Italian only.
