National Consortium


To enable the participation of Switzerland in CLARIN, several Swiss institutions founded the CLARIN-CH Consortium in December 2020. During autumn 2024, all member institutions have renewed their initial agreement. The current CLARIN-CH Consortium Agreement is valid for 2025-2028.

The CLARIN-CH Consortium fully adheres to the CLARIN ERIC mission and vision, and enables the implementation of this vision to the Swiss context. Each institution which is a member of the CLARIN-CH Consortium has one representative in the CLARIN-CH Board, which is the body of CLARIN-CH with full decision-making powers.

Objectives for 2025-2028

The objectives of the Consortium are:

  • Obtain and preserve Switzerland's full membership in CLARIN ERIC and connect the Swiss scientific community with the entire European CLARIN infrastructure.
  • Foster sharing of expertise and resources at the national and European level.
  • Bring together the Swiss community creating and using language resources through operating national working groups.
  • Work together with relevant national infrastructures for the continuous development of the national ecosystem of infrastructures in the spirit of Open Science.
  • Encourage and facilitate the initiation of national and international collaborations.
  • Maintain a constructive exchange with similar national and European research infrastructures and networks.


The 2025-2028 Consortium agreement stipulates the purpose of the Consortium, its functioning and the members' responsibilities.

CLARIN-CH Statutes and the CLARIN-CH Consortium Agreement shall be used as complementing documents. The CLARIN-CH Statutes are an integral part of the Consortium Agreement.


Members of the CLARIN-CH Consortium


UNIBAS: the University of Basel, represented by Prof. Dr. Martin Luginbühl from the Department of German Language and Litterature.


UNIBE: the University of Bern, represented by Prof. Dr. Sandrine Zufferey from the Institute of French Language and Literature.


UNIGE: the University of Geneva, represented by Prof. Dr. Eric Haeberli from the Linguistics Department.


UNIFR: the University of Fribourg, represented by Prof. Dr. Anita Thomas from the Department of Multilingualism and Foreign Languages Education.


UNIL: the University of Lausanne, represented by Prof. Dr. Anita Auer from the English Department.


UNINE: the University of Neuchâtel, represented by Prof. Dr. Martin Hilpert from the Institute of English Linguistics.


USI: the Università della Svizzera italiana, represented by Prof. Dr. Andrea Rocci from the Institute of Argumentation, Linguistics and Semiotics.


UZH: the University of Zurich, represented by Prof. Dr. Noah Bubenhofer from the Deutsches Seminar and the Linguistic Research Infrastructure LiRI.



ZHAW: the Zurich University of Applied Sciences, represented by Prof. Dr. Cerstin Mahlow from the Zurich School of Applied Linguistics.


SAGW: the Swiss Academy of Human and Social Sciences is represented by Dr. Beat Immenhauser, Deputy Secretary General of the SAGW.

national-consortium/start.txt · Last modified: 2024/12/04 09:20 by Cristina Grisot