HEM Suisse
Higher Education Management
HEM – the organisation for Swiss universities
The Association Higher Education Management (HEM) is a peer-to-peer community dedicated to higher education management. The association provides a platform for the exchange of experiences and best practices at different levels of management. In a framework of trust, members have access to comprehensive know-how and can jointly contribute to solving current challenges in higher education development.
What we do
The HEM offers are characterised by a particular practical orientation, a sound transfer of knowledge from the day-to-day management of academic staff and a binding networking of participants in the national higher education field.
HEM EXECUTIVE
Further education and management programme for executives at Swiss universities
HEM BÜRGENSTOCK
Conference and networking for executives at Swiss universities as well as guests from politics and business
HEM ABROAD
International study trips of several days for executives of Swiss universities
HEM FOCUS
For discussing executive topics at all levels within and beyond universities
HEM IMPULS
Brief online inputs on pressing topics of higher education development
Current events
| Date | Offer | Subject / Place |
| 23.-24.01.2026 | Bürgenstock Konferenz | Open!? Network Education. Lucerne |
| 16.-21.03.2026 | Executive 12 | Study visit (module 2): Finland/Sweden |
| 22.-28.03.2026 | Executive 12 | Study visit (module 2): Poland |
| 19.-25.04.2026 | Executive 12 | Study visit (module 2): Italia |
| April 2026 | Impuls | Apertus: KI swiss made |
| 6.-8.05.2026 | Executive 12 | Organizational culture (module 4), Konolfingen |
| Juni 2026 | Impuls | Internationalising your career: recipes |
| 10.-12.06.2006 | Executive 12 | Communication & Public Relations (module 5), Sion |
| 24.-26.08.2026 | Focus | Establish management level, Spiez |
| 20.-23.10.2026 | Abroad | Glocalization and responsibility. Luxemburg |
| 06.11.2026 | Alumn!*Event | @ZHaW, Health Departement |
| 12.-13.11.2026 | Focus | Bureaucracy and the limits of efficiency? Lucerne |
| November 2026 | Executive 13 | Intro (module 0) |
| 22.-23.01.2027 | Bürgenstock Konferenz | Institutionalising and cultivating creativity |
| 1.-3.02.2027 | Executive 13 | Educational Policy (module 1), Centrum Löwenberg/Murten |
| 1.-3.03.2027 | Executive 13 | Strategy Management (module 2) |
