Formatis ( non-profit organization) was born in 1997 in Basel during the merger of Ciba-Geigy and Sandoz. Formatis work at regional, national and trans-national level.
The founders, Michel Faupel (CG) and Heinz Anderegg (S), both researchers with some training functions , have pooled their expertise for a period of transition in the joint training of apprentices and technicians ( chemistry and biology ) before the creation of the Basel FHNW Muttenz.
The FHNW was formed from a merger in 2006 of diverse tertiary institutions long established throughout the northwestern region of Switzerland: three Universities of Applied Sciences (Aargau, Basel-Stadt and Basel-Landschaft, and Solothurn), the School of Education of Solothurn and the School of Education and Social Sciences of Basel-Stadt and Basel-Landschaft and the Academy of Music Basel. Switzerland’s Federal Council authorised the establishment of the FHNW in 2003 and approved all of its existing programmes of study.
Since 1999, Formatis offers research networks facilities in France, Germany and Switzerland.
Joseph Seiler. After his studies in natural sciences and psychology at the Universities of Basel (CH), Munich (D) and Bern (CH), he received his diplomas in biology and psychology.
Later, he received at the university of Bern his doctorate on "dynamics of populations". His Professorship in Basel was connected with the Universities of Bern and Basel.
Joseph studied also molecular biology at the Biozentrum of Basel. He is Member of the Swiss Society for Protection of Animals and President of the Swiss Youth Society for Protection of Animals and administrator of Formatis since 1999.
