DAUnit (Data Acquisition Unit) is a service offered by the HES-SO to support researchers, mainly in health, in their research projects, in particular to design, adapt and implement surveys and questionnaires. DAUnit offers researchers professional support in the technical, methodological and practical aspects of research. It is attached to the Health Axis of the HES-SO Valais Wallis. 

The DAUnit collaborates with the Internal Applied Ethics Department at the HES-SO Valais Wallis to help researchers who so wish to comply with the various standards that apply to research on human beings in Switzerland.

Various training courses are provided (e. g. Initiatition RedCap).