Being a public-private entity, swissnex India offers collaboration on the basis of mandates with Swiss academic partners. Mandates enable us to organise one or two week programmes for visiting delegations to identify potential academic & research partners, support in organisation of summer and winter schools in India, networking events and workshops with potential Indian academic and non-academic partners, foster and support ongoing collaborations, identify & empower participation of the faculty at international conferences/events in India and host student ambassadors of the universities & guide them in achieving their university goals in India.

Our current academic partners (in alphabetical order) are –

DGES, Canton of Vaud We represent the interests of Director General of Higher Education of the Canton of Vaud (DGES) in India by supporting DGES collaborators in identifying partners, making new partners and following up on ongoing collaborations in India.	ETH Zurich We enhance the presence of ETHZ in India by inviting professors to talk about their breakthrough research, and students to represent ETH in technical festivals. We host researchers and faculty for sabbaticals in Bangalore and host ETHZ alumni events.	EPFL swissnex India supports EPFL in organizing ‘Academia Industry Training Camp’ in India in coordination with SINE, IIT Bombay (nominated body by the Department of Science & Technology (DST), Government of India).
Gerbert Ruf Stiftung For 2017-18, Gebert ruf Stiftung will partially support the ‘engineer in residence’ program run by swissnex India. Under this program, selected engineering students from the Swiss Universities of Applied Sciences (UAS) will receive travel grant and monthly allowance during their residency in India.	HEC Lausanne Under the mandate agreement, swissnex India hosts an intern from HEC Lausanne who acts as an 'Ambassador' of the school and works on finding academic partners for the school as well as internship opportunities for HEC Lausanne students in India. The intern completes his/her master thesis in India.	swissuniversities In 2016, swissnex India received a mandate from swissuniversities to organise a one-week study tour for a 10-member faculty delegation from the universities of applied sciences (UAS) in India (Bangalore & Chennai) on the theme ‘Smart Cities’.
University of Zurich (UZH) We support UZH in organizing lectures, workshops with partner institutions in Bangalore, New Delhi and Mumbai. This mandate also includes having a shared intern from the University of Zurich at swissnex India.	ZHAW swissnex India supports ZHAW internationalization efforts in India and hosts sabbaticals. swissnex India was the facilitator of the academic collaboration signed with Christ University and supports visiting winter schools. We also organize customized visiting programs for ZHAW faculty in India.	EHL In 2015 and 2016, EHL and swissnex India agreed on a mandate wherein EHL will send a student to swissnex India for a six month internship. During the stay in Bangalore, the EHL student will dedicate 50% of his/her time to promote EHL in India & Bangladesh and the other 50% to assist swissnex India.

We are open to discussing new mandate possibilities. Please contact