The second-largest university in Switzerland, Geneva is included in the League of European Research Universities and the Coimbra group. It offers over 280 degrees and runs six National Centres of Competence in Research in subjects such as genetics, materials with novel electronic properties, chemical biology, affective sciences, synaptic bases of mental disease, and overcoming vulnerabilities in a life-course perspective.
Geneva works with nearly 100 other research universities and employs almost 4,000 researchers from 113 nations. It receives well over SFr100 million each year from the Swiss National Science Foundation and SFr24 million from the European Commission for research.
The university contributes over 10 articles a day to the world of the peer-reviewed scientific journals. During the past 10 years, it has produced 20 start-up companies, 150 license agreements, 350 invention announcements, and 600 industrial research agreements.
Thirty-one University of Geneva researchers have received a European Grant of Excellence.
