Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research

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Swiss federal department ministry of the Swiss Confederation

The Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research is a key Swiss federal ministry responsible for national economic policy, vocational and higher education, research and innovation, and agricultural policy.

Aliases (5)

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Swiss federal department → ministry of the Swiss Confederation →
abbreviation	DEFR → DFFR → WBF →
country	Switzerland →
formedByMergerOf	Federal Department of Economic Affairs → Federal Department of Home Affairs (education and research areas) →
headedBy	Federal Councillor →
jurisdiction	Swiss Confederation →
language	French → German → Italian →
locatedIn	Federal Palace of Switzerland →
nativeName	Dipartimento federale dell’economia, della formazione e della ricerca → Département fédéral de l’économie, de la formation et de la recherche → Eidgenössisches Departement für Wirtschaft, Bildung und Forschung →
oversees	Competition Commission → ETH Board → Federal Office for Agriculture → Federal Office for Housing → Federal Office for National Economic Supply → Price Supervisor → State Secretariat for Economic Affairs → State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation → Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property → Swiss Federal Institute of Metrology → Swiss Innovation Agency Innosuisse → Swiss National Science Foundation (via policy framework) →
partOf	Swiss Federal Administration →
policyArea	agriculture → competition policy → consumer prices supervision → economic affairs → education → housing → innovation → national economic supply → research →
responsibleFor	agricultural policy → higher education policy → innovation policy → national economic policy → research policy → vocational education policy →
seat	Bern →
website	https://www.wbf.admin.ch/ →

Referenced by (9)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research ("Eidgenössisches Departement für Wirtschaft, Bildung und Forschung") → Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research ("Département fédéral de l’économie, de la formation et de la recherche") → Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research ("Dipartimento federale dell’economia, della formazione e della ricerca") →	nativeName
Federal Department of Foreign Affairs →	collaboratesWith
Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research ("Federal Department of Economic Affairs") →	formedByMergerOf
ETH Zurich ("Swiss Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research") →	governingBody
Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain ("Swiss Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research") →	supervisedBy
Swiss federal government →	supervises
ETH Domain ("Swiss Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research") →	supervisingAuthority