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Education

This area covers schools, vocational training, universities and research.

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Related federal votes

Selection: votes that Swissvotes assigns to this topic's policy area (Swissvotes codebook), and votes linked by Votara editors.

Each line is one vote, from 1848 to 2026: accepted rejected

Accepted: 12 of 25

The 10 most recent of 25 past votes

  1. Initiative for a ban on animal and human experiments Rejected
  2. Initiative on scholarships Rejected
  3. Federal decree on the promotion of musical training for young people Accepted
  4. Constitutional article on human research Accepted
  5. Neuordnung der Verfassungsbestimmungen zur Bildung Accepted
  6. Stammzellenforschungsgesetz Accepted
  7. «Lehrstellen-Initiative» Rejected
  8. «Gen-Schutz-Initiative» Rejected
  9. Initiative «zur Abschaffung der Tierversuche» Rejected
  10. Initiative «Weg vom Tierversuch!» Rejected

Source: Année politique suisse, University of Bern — Swissvotes – database of federal popular votes (data 1848–2027, source checked on ) Checks failing

Citizen urgency and parliament attention

Parliamentary business
3.3% of 8,496 business items
Agora daily votes
fewer than 50 votes Opinion of Votara users, not a representative poll

Curia Vista subjects counted for this area: Bildung, Wissenschaft und Forschung.

565 items carry at least one of these subjects; an item that also belongs to other areas is split between them.

Votara calculation. The Parliamentary Services tag every business item with one or more subjects; Votara assigns each subject to at most one area. An item that touches several areas is split equally between them.

Agora votes are not representative of the population.

All areas compared · How the subjects are assigned to the areas

Sources: Parliamentary Services of the Federal Assembly — Business submitted by members of parliament (Curia Vista) (source checked on ) Checks failing; Parliamentary Services of the Federal Assembly — Business types and statuses (Curia Vista) (source checked on ); Votara — Votara calculation – share of parliamentary business per problem area (Curia Vista subject tags mapped)

Source of the Federal Assembly data: Parlamentsdienste der Bundesversammlung, Bern. Downloaded on Business submitted by members of parliament (Curia Vista): 10 November 2026; Business types and statuses (Curia Vista): 1 November 2026. Prepared by Votara; this is not an official publication. Terms of use of the data