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Whether you are a foundation, philanthropic organisation, company or public body, get involved with us to support our campus and train tomorrow's tech talent locally.
Our programme of excellence is open to everyone, with no diploma requirements or tuition fees, and enables you to combine training and professional activity through practical digitalization projects.

By becoming a partner of 42 Lausanne, every contribution helps provide free, world-class tech education to local talent while supporting technological innovation across the regional economy.

Support 42 lausanne

Make a donation

42 Lausanne is a not-for-profit association that offers a different kind of training for tech professions: tuition-free, open to all, and connected to the realities of the field.

Thanks to your support, we can :

- Developing IT training in French-speaking Switzerland
- Maintaining a free and accessible model
- Encouraging the integration and retraining of atypical profiles
- Helping students find jobs and become entrepreneurs
- Promoting digital responsibility
- Meeting the tech talent needs of local economic players

Institutions, foundations, public services

Finance a project

Your financial support will be allocated to a specific project of your choice and its impact will be presented to you at the end of the project. Our collaboration includes :

- Project implementation
Definition, implementation and organisational management.
- Visits to campus 42 Lausanne
We can organise your entire visit, with a format tailored to your needs (meetings, demonstrations, discussions with students).
- Visibility on our communication media
If you wish, we can promote your involvement through our channels: website, social networks, events and publications.

Companies, SMEs

Working together for the long term

By becoming a partner of 42 Lausanne, you can become part of the campus ecosystem:

  • Recruit
    Gain access to unique tech profiles, trained through practice and collaboration. Recruit your future developers and systems architects via our jobdatings.

  • Innovate
    Co-create hackathons to solve your business needs and support your teams in their digital transformation.

  • Communicate
    Reinforce your image as an innovative and committed company. Communicate your partnership with 42 Lausanne to your customers and colleagues.

  • Aligning your CSR/ESG strategy
    Support a free, accessible educational project with a strong social and technological impact.

Business meetings

Company programmes

No upcoming events.

Breakdown of 2024 funding

100% Swiss financing

The support of sponsors and companies is essential if 42 Lausanne is to offer free training open to all.

All our partners

Thanks to their support

« At QoQa, we need new energies on a regular basis, to move the frameworks and come up with innovative solutions on a daily basis. The 41 Lausanne school trains people in creativity, collective intelligence and the right to make mistakes, which is why we share a common DNA. and shaking up this world is a bit of a crazy challenge, just the way we like it! »

Pascal Meyer

Chief Otter, QoQa, QoQa

« We need developers and systems engineers to accelerate the development of our independent technologies, and we have already been partnering with various Swiss universities for several years. We already have excellent experience with employees trained at the first Ecole 42, and this has strengthened our confidence in the ability of Campus 42 Lausanne to train profiles that complement the universities, with a more practically oriented curriculum. »

Marc Oehler

CEO, Infomaniak

« 42 Lausanne is not only a response to the needs of the economy, it is also a response to the expectations of young and not so young people who are looking for new avenues of training or who do not feel comfortable in traditional courses. It's important to offer them alternative solutions, and that's one of the reasons we're supporting this school. »

Pascal Kiener

CEO, BCV

« The shift to data requires the development of talent offering new skills, from IT and more specifically able to meet the challenges of Green IT, particularly as applied to our field, energy. By supporting this school, Romande Energie is confirming its social and economic ambitions, and setting itself the challenge of integrating the environmental aspect into the definition of future IT needs and, more generally, the energy transition. »

Philippe Durr

Partnership & Alliance Officer, Romande Energie

« As a responsible company, we want to do everything we can to promote training, particularly in IT, where the recruitment of qualified people is becoming difficult as the pace of digitalisation accelerates in all sectors. We are delighted to be working with Ecole 42 Lausanne and supporting this innovative approach. »

Philippe Buthey

Chief Technology Officer, Mutual Group