The Board of swissuniversities issued a mandate to the Issue Management working group in June 2018. The objective is to coordinate communications on higher education policy issues. To this end, it identifies politically sensitive topics and suggests possible measures and reactions of the stakeholders in the field of education, research and innovation (ERI).

The working group’s duties include coordinating communications on higher education policy issues between the higher education institutions and other ERI partners, anticipating communication-relevant topics and issues in the field of higher education institutions, exchanging experiences and activating synergies in issues management.