The FOEN

Organisational chart, management, sectors and divisons

Information, contacts and links for anyone working in the media.

Goals and duties, strategy

The Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN), the Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss, the Federal Office for Civil Protection (FOCP), the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), the Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research (SLF) and the Swiss Seismological Service (SED) have joined forces in the Steering Committee on Intervention in Natural Hazards (LAINAT). Since 1 January 2018 the Federal Office of Topography swisstopo has also been a member of LAINAT. The LAINAT secretariat is affiliated to the FOEN. The secretariat for the Joint Information Platform for Natural Hazards (GIN) is attached to the LAINAT secretariat.