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Strategy

The ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ Strategy expresses the identity of the School and constitutes the guiding instrument for achieving the objectives for the four-year period 2025-2028.
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The ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ Strategy 2021-2024 was drawn up in continuity with that of the previous four-year period (2017-2020) and takes the form of a strategic map that integrates the key aspects of the institutional philosophy and defines the Fundamental Strategic Orientations and Strategic Objectives. The 2021-2024 Strategy focuses on four Fundamental Strategic Directions (FSD) divided into 11 Strategic Objectives.
 
The Strategy is closely linked to ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ's Quality Assurance System, which, as of the four-year period 2021-2024, provides for Strategic Plans for each mandate (Undergraduate and Graduate Studies, Continuing Education, Research) and an Action Plan for each Department and affiliated School in which each unit is required to set out the main measures to be undertaken to contribute to the achievement of the general strategic objectives.

The definition of the new ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ Strategy is the result of a great deal of participatory work carried out by many stakeholders who have contributed to its co-construction. It establishes the priorities towards which to direct the efforts and resources of all the staff, in line with the human, financial and infrastructural resources available. The new Strategy highlights ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ's overall aims to strengthen identity and cohesion, favouring collaboration and dialogue, inter-departmentality, transdisciplinarity, inter-professionality, all while ensuring an adequate internal organisation to favour the implementation and quality of the services offered.

Vision, mission, values and guiding principles represent the core elements of ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ's institutional philosophy on which its various activities in the fields of education, research and knowledge transfer are based.

Vision

We want to be a professionalising multidisciplinary, innovative university of applied sciences and arts with a Latin culture, recognised and leader in networking at both national and international level, in the academic, business and political-institutional context.

Mission

We train people primarily for the territory with professional, highly qualified and immediately operational profiles, capable of operating competently and flexibly in regional, national and international environments. Through research, we offer innovative and rapidly applicable solutions, that improve both the competitiveness and sustainability of companies, organisations and local institutions, not to mention the quality of people's lives.

Values

Practicality, originality, multidisciplinarity, partnerships, innovation, territoriality, internationality, sustainability.

Guiding Principles

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Our strategic priorities.

As proposed by the Executive, the ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ Board has identified four strategic priorities, known as Fundamental Strategic Directions (FSD).

FSD 1 - Territorial positioning and international access based upon cooperation

We are strengthening our position within the Swiss university system, in order to satisfy the need for increased global exposure.

FSD 2 - Integrated, innovative, flexible and accessible research and educational programmes

We promote innovation through applied research, service provision, state-of-the-art basic and continuing education, reinforcing mutual synergies in order to promote their effects on learning models and knowledge transfer in companies and organisations in the area and for the benefit of the local people.

FSD 3 - Managing change sustainable development of the organisation and its collaborators

We ensure the sustainable development of ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ, in its economic, social, environmental and cultural aspects, keeping our employees at the heart of our focus.

FSD 4 - Campus development

We value our campuses as welcoming places able to attract students, collaborators and all local stakeholders.

2021-2024.

We are recognised as a point of reference in the creation of federal networks on the North-South axis.

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We will increase the number of graduates resident in Ticino and other cantons in relation to the demand, able to integrate quickly and for the long-term in the world of work.

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We are stepping up support for the competitiveness and innovative capacity of businesses, organisations and institutions throughout the region, ensuring sustainable development in its environmental, economic, social and cultural dimensions.

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We develop synergies between research, study programmes, continuing education and service performance, enhancing their mutual impact.

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We develop innovative study programmes and differentiate ourselves through the development and application of innovative teaching models in line with the profile of the UAS, enhancing the richness of our diversity of skills also in educational methods.

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We integrate the overall objectives of sustainable development into the management of the institution and the implementation of our mandates.

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We ensure the attractiveness for collaborators with high quality profiles and define growth paths capable of exploiting their potential.

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We are developing the new organisation of the ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ management, strengthening the transversal coordination of the institutional mandates and operational support areas related to the priority processes described in our QAS.

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We ensure our financial stability and sustainability through careful risk and portfolio management with cyclical review processes of the activities, anchored in the QAS.

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We value our campuses to create convenient places of sharing and unique experiences for students, staff and the local community.

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We provide technological tools, applications and secure appliances to facilitate our action with attention to the new needs of study and flexible working.

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Strategic priorities for 2025-2035

A reliable point of reference in a period of great uncertainty, a promoter of synergies between the academic world and society, capable of understanding current trends, proposing and sharing anticipatory solutions with a real impact on the various social challenges.

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Aware of the speed and extent of change, sensitive to new global balances and new logics of cooperation, a leader in networking with other national - as part of swissuniversities - and international academic institutions, a supporter of openness and exchange opportunities for students and staff, active in promoting exemplary models of cross-border cooperation.

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Able to create collaborations between disciplines, aware that complex problems must be addressed with global approaches, attentive to the reciprocal effects of research and services on basic and continuing education, promoter of original and distinctive training and research programmes.

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Able to remain attractive to staff members and to enhance its human capital, organised in an agile, flexible and dynamic manner, capable of managing change with the active participation of the entire academic community, including young recruits, guarantor of inclusion and equal opportunities, and capable of building an appropriate and modern infrastructure.

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Aware of current and future digital transformations, a reference actor on issues of transition towards sustainable development, a promoter of Open Science and Open Education, attentive to the development of the digital skills of employees and students, an example of sustainability in its management.

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For the four-year period 2025-2028, 17 project lines have been identified on which ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ has decided to focus its actions.

PG1

Promote structured and continuous dialogue with all relevant professional groups in the region.

PG2

Develop ¾«¶«Ó°Òµâ€™s role in the regional innovation system.

PG3

Strengthen our image and institutional identity.

PG4

Reinforce the network of partnerships in Ticino, in particular with the Università della Svizzera italiana, and at national level, with swissuniversities, funding bodies and other academic institutions.

PG5

Develop strategic-international dimension.

PG6

Develop cross-disciplinarity and inter-professionality in education, research and services.

PG7

Develop more flexible and accessible training opportunities and consolidate the principles of integrated education.

PG8

Positioning of ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ's continuing university education in the educational environment and in the job market.

PG9

Pursue the ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ Life Sciences Strategy.

PG10

Stimulate and integrate entrepreneurship.

PG11

Consolidate the organisation matrix and optimise the efficiency and effectiveness of operational processes in line with the QMS.

PG12

Promote the appreciation and well-being of employees by fostering participation and career development.

PG13

Develop third-cycle programmes consistent with our profile and offered with continuity.

PG14

Ensure financial sustainability.

PG15

Develop a culture and practice of sustainability and equal opportunities, also through exemplary initiatives.

PG16

Promote the development of Open Science and Open Education.

PG17

Plan and implement a strategy for the development of study spaces and facilities and working spaces, both physical and digital.

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