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 serviziogiuridico@usi.ch.
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 Communication, Culture and Society (pdf)
- Statute of the Faculty of Economics (pdf, in Italian)
- Statute of the Faculty of Informatics (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)
Education
- Regulation for admission and enrolment at USI (pdf)
- Regulations for limitation of admission to Medical Studies at USI (pdf, in German)
- Conditions of admission at the Masters in Informatics for students with a technical degree not in computer science (pdf)
- Examination guidelines (pdf)
- Guidelines on reading and filing all documents related to background checks, enrolment, and exams carried out by the Faculties (in Italian)
- Field project guidelines (pdf)
- Guidelines for appointing a Master’s Executive Advisory Board (pdf)
- Provisions on the use of teaching material by students (pdf)
- Directive on examinations for the summer session of the 2019-2020 academic year (pdf)
- Directive on examinations for the autumn session of the 2019-2020 academic year (pdf)
- Directive on examinations for the winter session of the 2020-2021 academic year (pdf)
- Directive on examinations for the summer session of the 2020-2021 academic year (pdf)
- Directive on examinations for the autumn session of the 2020-2021 academic year (pdf)
- Guidelines for the organisation and conducting of inter-Faculty examinations or examinations within the framework of inter-Faculty programmes (pdf)
For regulations and guidelines 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
Commissions and representatives
For regulations and guidelines 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
- Regulations on the general working conditions of academic staff (in Italian, pdf)
- Regulations for the promotion and tenure of academic staff (pdf)
- 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)
- Rules on indemnities and compensation
- Regulations on power of attorney (Regolamento per le deleghe; pdf, in Italian)
- Policy on the management of funded R&D projects (pdf)
- Guidelines to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of education within USI (pdf)
- Protection provisions for COVID-19 (pdf)
- Open Access Policy Guidelines of Università della Svizzera italiana (pdf)
Security and privacy
- Rules for the use of the University computer network
- Rules on processing and protection of personal data at USI (in Italian)
- Rules on video surveillance at USI (in Italian)
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.
