Lausanne is the capital and largest city of the Swiss French-speaking canton of Vaud. It is a hilly city situated on the shores of Lake Geneva,about halfway between the Jura Mountains and the Alps,and facing the French town of Évian-les-Bains across the lake. Lausanne is located 62 kilometres northeast of Geneva,the nearest major city.
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,more formally the Canton of Vaud,is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation. It is composed of ten districts;its capital city is Lausanne. Its coat of arms bears the motto "Libertéet patrie" on a white-green bicolour.
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 Cantonal and University Library of Lausanne,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.
Guy Bernard Parmelin is a Swiss Federal Councillor and head of the Department of Economic Affairs,Education and Research. A member of the Swiss People's Party (SVP/UDC),he has been a member of the Federal Council since 2016,and has led the Department of Economic Affairs,Education and Research since 2019. He previously led the Department of Defence,Civil Protection and Sports between 2016 and 2018. He served as president of Switzerland in 2021,having previously served as vice president of Switzerland in 2020.
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.
Le Day railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Vallorbe,in the Swiss canton of Vaud. It sits at the junction of the standard gauge Simplon line of Swiss Federal Railways and Vallorbe–Le Brassus line of SBB and Travys.
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.
Grandson railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Grandson,in the Swiss canton of Vaud. It is an intermediate stop on the standard gauge Jura Foot line of Swiss Federal Railways.
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.
Christelle Luisier is a Swiss politician and lawyer. Since 2022,she has served as President of the Council of State of Vaud.
Nuria Gorrite is a Swiss-Spanish politician and museum curator. A member of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland,she was the first woman to be elected President of the Council of State of Vaud.
Michel Béguelin,is a Swiss politician and member of the Socialist Party. He served as a member of the National Council representing the canton of Vaud from 1987 to 1997,and in the Council of States from 1999 to 2007.
