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Confederation / Economic Affairs, Education and Research
Federal department · EAER
Economic Affairs, Education and Research
What schwur.ch can document about this entry’s finances — and what it cannot.
In the federal accounts · 2025
13.0 bn CHF spending, 14.9 % of the Confederation
to third parties12’945m CHF
Services from other departments96CHF million, such as rent and IT
The Finance Administration takes the 96 million CHF for services from other departments out again in the Confederation’s budget. Volume 2 states current spending as 12’814 million CHF, volume 1B as 12’814 million CHF. See the reconciliation
Offices by spending, accounts 2025
Who in the department spends the money, as volume 2 of the state accounts prints it per administrative unit. Each row leads to the office.
CHF million, whole millions as printed. The sum of the offices is recomputed against the department and against volume 1B. The offices' own spending includes services they buy within the department.
Where the money goes
Current expenditure 2025 · accounts · CHF 12’814 million, as the official closing states it.
Transfers · 94.7 %
Own operations
679.2 m CHF
What the offices use themselves: staff, operations, IT. The Federal Council steers it per office with a global budget.
Positions
2’287
Staff
426.2
IT
52.3
Consultancy
67.9
Positions and amounts according to the Finance Administration's «Institutionen», CHF million.
Transfers
12’134.8 m CHF
What is passed on to others: contributions to social insurance, cantons and organisations. Parliament approves each credit separately.
Subsidies according to the subsidy database, CHF million
2025 · Accounts. Amounts in CHF million, positions in full-time equivalents.
An extract, not a department budget.The subsidies below are not a part of this closing that could be subtracted from it: they are mostly transfer spending, partly also investment contributions. They are neither a second overall figure nor a departmental total of their own.
Subsidies 202512’299.0m CHFfrom the Finance Administration’s subsidy database
Credits paid in 202581143 credits belong to this entry
Share of all subsidies in 202524%of 50.6 bn CHF in subsidies
Largest credits 2025
The 10 largest of 143 credits of this entry, as the Finance Administration keeps them.
Official overall closingÜbersicht über die Erfolgs- und Investitionsrechnung
Official overall closing
Übersicht über die Erfolgs- und Investitionsrechnung
The overview of the statement of financial performance and the investment account, as the printed annual accounts state it for this entry: current income and spending, self-financing, the year’s result and the investments.
Laufende Einnahmen421.2million CHFAccounts 2025 · A 2024 402 · B 2025 370.2
Laufende Ausgaben12’814million CHFAccounts 2025 · A 2024 12’691.9 · B 2025 13’084.2
Selbstfinanzierung−12’392.8million CHFAccounts 2025 · A 2024 −12’289.9 · B 2025 −12’714
Jahresergebnis−12’578.7million CHFAccounts 2025 · A 2024 −12’458.7 · B 2025 −12’920.4
Investitionsausgaben227.4million CHFAccounts 2025 · A 2024 247.3 · B 2025 244.6
Investitionseinnahmen29.7million CHFAccounts 2025 · A 2024 30.1 · B 2025 39.8
The budget and actual accounts for the same year are shown in separate columns.
This closing stands for itself.In volume 2 each department stands for itself, including the services it buys from other departments. The Finance Administration reconciles the seven to the Confederation’s total in volume 1B and takes those services out again there. See the reconciliation
Item
A 2024Accounts
B 2025Budget
A 2025Accounts
Laufende Einnahmen
402
370.2
421.2
Laufende Ausgaben
12’691.9
13’084.2
12’814
Eigenausgaben
674.4
701.7
679.2
Transferausgaben
12’017.6
12’382.6
12’134.8
Selbstfinanzierung
−12’289.9
−12’714
−12’392.8
Abschreibungen und übrige Bewertungsänderungen Verwaltungsvermögen
−168.7
−206.4
−185.9
Jahresergebnis
−12’458.7
−12’920.4
−12’578.7
Investitionseinnahmen
30.1
39.8
29.7
Investitionsausgaben
247.3
244.6
227.4
million CHF · rounding step 0.1
The indentation reproduces the printed table alone, not a calculating structure. What belongs together is said by the reconciliations below — not by the margin.
Reconciliations
Every equation the table states about itself, recomputed from the printed figures — one column at a time. An equation mixing the accounts with the budget of the same year would check nothing. The raw difference stands there even when it is zero.
All figures in million CHF. The allowance is half a printed digit for each figure entering the comparison — not a tolerance that swallows every difference.
ÜBERSICHT ÜBER DIE ERFOLGS- UND INVESTITIONSRECHNUNG
Heading
EIDG. DEPARTEMENT FÜR WIRTSCHAFT, BILDUNG UND FORSCHUNG
Rounding
rounding step 0.1
Checksum of the PDF
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Retrieved
Eidgenössische Finanzverwaltung EFV, retrieved on 16.09.2026. Raw data
Open the PDF at page 9 · The checksum is the SHA-256 of exactly the file these figures were read from.
Gedruckte Mio. CHF, eine Nachkommastelle; Rundungsschritt 0.1. Je Departement ein eigener Abschluss: R 2024, VA 2025 und R 2025. Die sieben sind keine addierbaren Teile des Gesamthaushalts, solange die Innenbeziehungen nicht übergeleitet sind.
The line labels are the Finance Administration’s original German terms. The volumes also appear in French and Italian; the German set was the one read.
What is still missing here
The Confederation publishes these figures; schwur.ch has not read them in yet:
Performance groups and credit sheets of the individual administrative units
None of these lines is shown here as zero francs. Missing and zero are two different statements.
Die aussergewöhnliche Trockenheit der vergangenen Monate hat zu tieferen Futtererträgen geführt. Das Eidgenössische Departement für Wirtschaft, Bildung und Forschung (WBF) hat daher am 15. August 2026 zur Erleichterung von Importen den Grenzschutz reduziert, um die betroffenen Betriebe zu unterstützen. In Anbetracht der logistischen Herausforderungen für den grenzüberschreitenden Transport verlängert das WBF die Zollbefreiung für frischen oder silierten Mais zu Futterzwecken bis zum 30. April 2027.
Switzerland is providing CHF 3 million in support of a project run by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) to safeguard the Ukrainian grain harvest and prepare for the next planting season. Providing additional storage capacity should prevent crop losses and safeguard the livelihoods of farms in regions affected by the war. The project was a topic of discussion for Jacques Gerber, the Federal Council’s Delegate for Ukraine, during his visit to Kyiv from 20 to 23 September.
At the opening of the United Nations (UN) General Debate in New York on Tuesday, 22 September 2026, Swiss president Guy Parmelin reaffirmed Switzerland’s commitment to dialogue and open trade in the face of unprecedented challenges.
Biochemist Martin Jinek has been awarded the prestigious Marcel Benoist Swiss Science Prize for his groundbreaking insights into cellular processes that paved the way for the breakthrough in genome editing. The Latsis Swiss Science Prize goes to mathematician Susanna Zimmermann for her pioneering research on the symmetries of geometric spaces, which enabled her to resolve a question in algebraic geometry that had remained open since the 19th century.
Nachdem die einzige Erdölraffinerie der Schweiz vergangene Woche nach einer rund zweiwöchigen Unterbrechung ihren Betrieb wieder aufgenommen hat, kann die Branche die Versorgung mit Benzin und Diesel wieder über die regulären Versorgungskanäle sicherstellen. Die Versorgungssituation bei Mineralölprodukten bleibt jedoch angespannt.
Ein neuer Bericht des Staatssekretariats für Bildung, Forschung und Innovation (SBFI) zeigt auf, wie politische Bildung und Medienbildung Kinder, Jugendliche und junge Erwachsene in Ausbildung im Umgang mit Desinformation stärken können. Die Schweiz verfügt über wichtige Voraussetzungen, um ihre Widerstandsfähigkeit gegenüber Desinformation zu stärken. Gleichzeitig zeigt der Bericht mögliche Entwicklungspotenziale auf.
Der Lehrstellenmarkt präsentiert sich im Spätsommer 2026 stabil: Per Ende August wurden gesamtschweizerisch rund 76’000 Lehrverträge abgeschlossen. Die Bedeutung und Leistungsfähigkeit der Schweizer Berufsbildung zeigt sich auch international: Vom 22. bis 27. September 2026 messen sich in Shanghai die besten jungen Berufsleute aus der ganzen Welt an den Berufsweltmeisterschaften WorldSkills.
The Federal Government Expert Group on Business Cycles is raising its forecast for economic growth in Switzerland. For 2026, it now expects growth of 1.7% (June forecast: 0.9%), while the forecast for 2027 remains unchanged at 1.6% [1]. Swiss GDP has recently grown strongly. However, the Iran conflict, high energy prices and continuing uncertainty over trade policy pose significant risks to the economic outlook.
From 21 to 28 September, Martina Hirayama, State Secretary for Education, Research and Innovation, will lead a science mission to China. The programme includes ministerial-level meetings and visits to science and technology institutions in Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Beijing and Shanghai. At the end of the mission, she will attend the awards ceremony of the WorldSkills Competition in Shanghai.
Das neuste Update des Online-Monitors Wohnungsmarkt des Bundesamtes für Wohnungswesen (BWO) zeigt: Die Lage auf dem Schweizer Wohnungsmarkt hat sich 2025 und im ersten Halbjahr 2026 weiter verschärft. Besonders betroffen sind Wohnungssuchende mit tiefer und mittlerer Kaufkraft. Im Fokus steht zudem der Zusammenhang zwischen Zuwanderung und Wohnungsmarkt. Dabei zeigt sich, dass neben der Bevölkerungsentwicklung auch Einkommen und Wohnungsangebot die Mietzinsentwicklung beeinflussen.
Bundespräsident Guy Parmelin hat am 16. September 2026 den Bundesrat informiert, dass sich Staatssekretärin Helene Budliger Artieda entschieden hat, auf Ende März 2027 zurückzutreten. Für die Nachfolge wird eine Findungskommission eingesetzt.
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) published its report on Switzerland’s economic policy on 15 September. The OECD commends Switzerland’s economic policy approach. In light of a wide range of challenges, the report also identifies the need for action to safeguard Switzerland’s competitiveness and innovative capacity over the long term. This includes further reforming the healthcare and pension systems, reducing the administrative burden on businesses, utilising labour potential more effectively and increasing competition.
«Recipient according to the EFV» repeats the subsidy database’s entry as it stands. Whoever passes funds on, such as a foundation or a fund, is the first recipient, not the final one.
Not an official publication. The figures stand as the Federal Finance Administration publishes them; schwur.ch only rounds them.
