---
aid: university-of-lausanne
name: University of Lausanne
description: >-
  The University of Lausanne (UNIL) is a public research university in Lausanne,
  Switzerland, ranked #224 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. With roughly
  17,000 students across seven faculties, UNIL maintains an Open Science strategy
  and a Kong-based internal API gateway underpinning its digital services. Its
  public developer footprint is modest and research-oriented: the SPICA single-cell
  spatial atlas exposes a documented JSON API, and the IRIS institutional repository
  is served by a public DSpace REST API. Most institutional and student-information
  APIs sit behind the my.unil.ch authentication gateway and are not publicly documented.
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-lausanne/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - University
  - Switzerland
  - Open Science
  - Research Data
  - Institutional Repository
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: university-of-lausanne:spica
    name: SPICA Atlas API
    description: >-
      Public JSON API for the SPICA single-cell / spatial atlas hosted by UNIL.
      It lists current projects with metadata, supports filtering by reference
      atlas (ref_id), free-text search across metadata fields, pagination, and
      download of project archives.
    humanURL: https://spica.unil.ch/home/api
    baseURL: https://spica.unil.ch
    tags: [ Research Data, Single Cell, Atlas, JSON, Life Sciences ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://spica.unil.ch/home/api
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/university-of-lausanne-spica.yaml
  - aid: university-of-lausanne:iris
    name: IRIS Repository (DSpace REST API)
    description: >-
      Public DSpace 7 REST/HATEOAS API (version 1.3.8) serving the IRIS
      institutional research repository at UNIL. Exposes communities,
      collections, items, bundles and bitstreams, with discovery, metadata
      schemas and ORCID integration. Anonymous read access is available for
      public content; some endpoints require authentication.
    humanURL: https://iris.unil.ch
    baseURL: https://api.unil.ch/iris/server/api
    tags: [ Institutional Repository, DSpace, Research Data, Open Access ]
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://api.unil.ch/iris/server/api
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/university-of-lausanne-iris.yaml
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.unil.ch
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/openscienceunil
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-lausanne/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://my.unil.ch/
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/university-of-lausanne-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/university-of-lausanne-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/university-of-lausanne-finops.yml
  - type: Review
    url: review.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com