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title: "Vision"
description: "The UniBE Foundation supports excellence, innovation and future potential at the University of Bern so researchers can develop groundbreaking solutions."
url: https://unibefoundation.ch/en/vision
updated: 2026-09-16
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# Vision

> The UniBE Foundation supports excellence, innovation and future potential at the University of Bern so researchers can develop groundbreaking solutions.

Vision

# Toward a Sustainable Future Through Pioneering Research

The UniBE Foundation supports excellence, innovation, and future potential at the University of Bern so that current and future generations of researchers can develop globally groundbreaking solutions to the complex challenges of our time.

## **Promoting Talents**

When young talents put their heads together and give free rein to their curiosity and thirst for knowledge, creative solutions to the complex problems of our time emerge. The key is to create the conditions for success and to provide targeted support for a new generation of researchers.

## **The Economy of the Future**

To successfully tackle the major challenges of our time, we need new, sustainable economic and social models. Interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research plays a key role in this effort.

## **Sustainable Habitats**

A world worth living in requires pioneering research that creatively, collaboratively, and pragmatically drives transformation processes and demonstrates how living spaces for people, animals, and the environment can be designed in a sustainable way.

## **Ethical Quality of Life**

Demographic changes present us with major social and medical challenges. Multidisciplinary teams at the cutting-edge of their fields draw on engineering know-how and medical expertise to develop innovative healthcare solutions that meet the needs of all segments of the population.

## **Strategy 2030 - Knowledge Creates Value**

At the center of the University of Bern’s Strategy 2030 are the university’s identity and the values that unite it as a comprehensive university in all its diversity. The University of Bern sees itself as a forward-looking, world-class international university with strong local roots and societal relevance.

[Learn more](https://www.unibe.ch/university/portrait/strategy/sub_strategies/index_eng.html)