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SVC Final Evaluation. Background Report Lepori and Probst
N. of partners/Series 1 2 3 4 Grand Total
2 2 1 1 4
3 11 7 15 21 54
4 9 9 10 6 34
5 – 9 6 5 7 2 20
Grand Total 28 22 32 30 112
Table 11. Number of university partners in the SVC projects
Also the number of external partners was strongly reduced. In the 1 st and 2 nd series, about half
of the projects had other partners outside higher education institutions, while this is true just for
20% of the 4 th series projects.
A look at the project participation by HEI (both coordinator and partners) gives a broader view
and shows that, despite the concentration of leading houses, it was possible for most
institutions to get involved in a sizeable number of projects.
Project series 1 2 3 4 Total
UNIBAS 10 10 13 11 44
UNIBE 12 11 12 8 43
EPFL 3 4 3 3 13
ETHZ 5 7 8 6 26
UNIFR 12 6 6 1 25
UNIGE 7 8 9 9 33
UNIL 10 12 7 8 37
UNILU 0 1 0 0 1
UNINE 8 0 4 2 14
UNISG 2 1 3 2 8
UNISI 4 2 9 7 22
UZH 12 8 15 13 48
BFH 6 2 8 4 20
FHNW 5 5 8 5 23
FHO 1 3 3 2 9
HSLU 3 1 4 3 11
HES-SO 7 2 4 4 17
SUPSI 4 2 8 7 21
ZFH 3 3 5 5 16
total university 85 70 89 70 314
total UAS 29 18 40 30 117
total 114 88 129 100 431
HEI abroad 6 4 2 7 19
Others 14 10 14 4 42
Table 12: Project participation by institution and series
4.3.3 Project organisation
This changing organization raises a number of interesting issues on the nature of collaboration
and of the impact of these projects on Swiss higher education. In the Impulse Programme, the
goal was possibly to establish large networks covering many institutions with courses on the
same subject domain, to allow for pooling and large reusability of the developed materials.
Clearly, 3 rd and 4 th series projects have many more small-scale networks due also to reduced
funding.
In most ongoing projects from all series that answered our questionnaire (67 out of 80), the
leading house has a strong role – only two projects, one from the 1 st and one from the 3 rd series,
denied this: in one of them, one partner plays the most important role, in the other one the
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