Students Return to Swiss TPH

This week, universities across Switzerland resumed in-person, hybrid and online courses. After nearly 80 years of educating talent at Socinstrasse in Basel, students return to the original Swiss TPH location for the last time. Beginning in January 2022, courses will be held at the new headquarters in neighbouring Allschwil. Education and training at Swiss TPH has a history as old as the institute itself. Since the first course-the General Tropical Course-was offered in 1944, education and training activities multiplied quickly, reflecting the ever-growing areas of expertise the institute offers. Originally housed in the building known as the "Föhre", Swiss TPH quickly outgrew its surroundings, leading to an expansion in the 1960s that included a lecture room and library. Swiss TPH also widened the focus of education and training activities from a Swiss audience to an international one.