The University of Lausanne in Lausanne,Switzerland was founded in 1537 as a school of Protestant theology,before being made a university in 1890. The university is the second oldest in Switzerland,and one of the oldest universities in the world to be in continuous operation. As of fall 2017,about 15,000 students and 3,300 employees studied and worked at the university. Approximately 1,500 international students attend the university,which has a wide curriculum including exchange programs with other universities.
Vaud,(German;Kanton Waadt) more formally the canton of Vaud,is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation. It is composed of ten districts,and its capital city is Lausanne. Its coat of arms bears the motto "Libertéet patrie" on a white-green bicolour.
24 heures is a Swiss regional Swiss-French-language daily newspaper,published by Tamedia in Lausanne,Vaud. Founded in 1762 as a collection of announcements and official communications,it is the oldest newspaper in the world with uninterrupted publication.
La Tour-de-Peilz is a municipality in Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut District in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. The city is located on Lake Geneva between Montreux and Vevey.
Palais de Beaulieu is the historical and emblematic building of the Lausanne convention and exhibition center,located in Lausanne,in the Vaud Canton,Switzerland. The Palais is a convention centre that welcomes mainly conventions and events.
The Lausanne University Hospital,in Lausanne,is one of the five university hospitals in Switzerland.
The Lausanne campus or Dorigny university campus is a large area in Switzerland where the University of Lausanne (UNIL),the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and several other institutions are located. It is in Dorigny,towards the west of Lausanne,on the shores of Lake Geneva. The site is about 2.2 kilometres wide and 31,000 people study and work there.
Scriptorium is the digital library of the Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire (BCU),part of the University of Lausanne in the Swiss canton of Vaud. It was launched on 7 December 2012 and initially included more than a million pages of digitized newspapers published in Vaud canton. All of the content is freely available to the public on the Scriptorium website. In their annual report,BCU reported 2,973,638 visits to Scriptorium Digital Library for its first full year of availability (2013). By the end of 2013,the collection had grown to 2,153,176 pages.
The Théâtre du Jorat,inaugurated 9 May 1908,is a theater hall located in the Vaud commune of Mézières,Switzerland,about 20 km from Lausanne,in the Jorat region.
Lucienne Peiry,born in Lausanne on 4 September 1961,holds a doctorate (PhD) in the history of art;she is a specialist in Outsider Art,an exhibition curator,a lecturer and the author of several publications. She gives lectures in both Switzerland and elsewhere in Europe,and has been teaching Outsider Art at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne since 2010. Since 2016,she has also been teaching at the University of Lausanne
Isabelle Moret is a Swiss politician who served as President of the National Council from 2019 to 2020. A member of FDP.The Liberals since its foundation in 2009,she first entered the National Council in 2006 as a member of the Free Democratic Party (FDP/PRD). Moret is a resident of Yens-sur-Morges in the canton of Vaud.
Gabrielle Nanchen is a Swiss politician and author. In 1971,she became one of the first 10 women elected to the National Council of Switzerland,serving in that body until 1979. She was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland. Since leaving office,she has written books on her personal pilgrimages to Santiago de Compostela and Africa.
Video games in Switzerland have been released since the 1980s. In 2016,there were between 100 and 120 game companies,mostly small,corresponding to about 500 employees and a turnover of about 50 millions Swiss francs.
Claude Ruey is a Swiss politician. He was a member of the National Council from 1999 to 2011. From 2002 to 2008,he was the president of the Liberal Party of Switzerland. During his presidency,the Liberal Party moved towards its merger with the Free Democratic Party to form FDP.The Liberals.
An election for all seven members of the Federal Council,the Government of Switzerland,was held on 11 December 2019,following the federal election on 20 October 2019,for the 2020–2024 term.
Géraldine Savary is a journalist and politician of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (SP),former member of the National Council and the Council of States and the current director of the Federal Commission of the Swiss postal services,PostCom.
Léonore Porchet,is a Swiss politician. A member of the Green Party of Switzerland,Porchet has represented Vaud canton in the National Council since the 2019 Swiss federal election.
Simone de Montmollin is a Swiss politician,businesswoman,and oenologist. She began her career in the medical field,working for the European Society of Cardiology before founding her own medical communications company,Götz &Cie Cardio Diffusion,in 1991. De Montmollin left the medical field to become an oenologist,and served as the director of the Swiss Union of Oenologists,worked as a communications specialist at Agroscope,and served as chairwoman for the 42nd World Congress of Vine and Wine in Geneva. In 2008 she was elected,as an Independent,to the Geneva Constituent Assembly. She later joined FDP.The Liberals and was elected to the Grand Council of Geneva,serving from 2013 to 2018. In her last year on the council,she was the president of the Committee for Environment,Agriculture,and Management. In 2019,de Montmollin was elected to the National Council,where she is a member of the Committee for Science,Education and Culture and the Delegation for Relations with the French Parliament.
A by-election to the Swiss Federal Council was held on 20 September 2017,after federal councillor Didier Burkhalter (FDP-NE) announced he would leave the Council effective 31 October 2017. The by-election resulted in the election of Ignazio Cassis (FDP-TI),resulting in no change in the partisan composition of the council.
By-elections to the Swiss Federal Council were held on 7 December 2022,after federal councillors Ueli Maurer (SVP-ZH) and Simonetta Sommaruga (SP-BE) announced they would leave the Council effective 31 December of the same year. The parliament elected Albert Rösti and Élisabeth Baume-Schneider respectively to replace them.
