• Commission Pro-Femmes: Founding given by the commission for women academic promotion. They are intended to foster CHUV, UNIL and Unisanté employee women academic courses. Website
• Temporary employment of a person to support the candidate during family leave. The purpose of this measure is to facilitate the continuity of the current research work and avoid career delays which maybe caused by the reorganisation of professional and family life following the arrival of a child). Website
• Subside Tremplin: Funds up to 25’000 CHF (for a maximum of 12 months), to help women potentially candidate to a professor position by giving them free time in order to enrich their research portfolio, write articles, finalize or publish their thesis, or go abroad. They can be released from teaching or administrative duties to focus essentially on their research. During this period, their contract is not interrupted and they continue to receive usual salary. Website

120%-Care-Grant: Funding instrument to support postdocs with care responsibilities. The Care Grant makes it possible for postdoctoral researchers with care responsibilities, who have a level of employment of between 80% and 100%, to reduce their level of employment for up to 12 months to at least 60%. In order to ensure that any duties which cannot be performed due to the reduction in the level of employment are still performed, a support person will be employed. The hours of the support person overlap with a maximum of 20% of those of the postdoctoral researcher (as a rule, a total level of employment of 120% applies). The institute makes the points freed up through the reduction available for employing the support person, and the University Executive Board finances the overlapping hours (max. 20%).

In 2004, the Equal Opportunities Offices of the Universities of Fribourg, Geneva, Lausanne, Neuchâtel, and the USI developed the REGARD workshop program. A couple of years later, the USI left, but then the HES-SO and finally the EPFL jointed the project. Together, the six institutions offer each year more than 20 transversal skills workshops to female PhD candidates, professors, and members of the mid-level faculty. The REGARD workshops propose concrete tools for career management and supervision. Participants develop necessary transversal skills together with other researchers from different universities. These workshops create opportunities for discussion and the exchange of experience between women researchers. Website