Official documents

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 Sciences (pdf)
• Statute of the Faculty of Economics (pdf, in Italian)
• Statute of the Faculty of Informatics (pdf, in Italian)

Education

• Regulation for admission and enrolment at USI (pdf, in Italian)
• 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) / Contratto USI Field Project (dotx)
• Guidelines for appointing a Master’s Executive Advisory Board (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 Sciences
• Faculty of Economics
• Faculty of Informatics

Bodies, commissions and representatives

• Regulations on the Academic Senate
• Regulations on the Organisation of the Ethics Committee of the Università della Svizzera italiana (pdf, in Italian)

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 Sciences
• 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)

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

• Parking regulations at USI Lugano Campus (in Italian)

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.