Services

By services, the Swiss Universities of Applied Sciences understand all activities whose main purpose is to convert acquired knowledge into working practice, or to transfer such knowledge to third parties.

These particularly include

 • Consultations

 • Expert opinions

 • Routine measurement

 • Provision of laboratories

 • Company training courses and continuing education courses
   (not including postgraduate courses, postgraduate degree programmes)

(Source: Rectors' Conference of the Swiss Universities of Applied Sciences (2003), Abgrenzung Forschung & Entwicklung und Dienstleistung (only in German and French)).