Follow-up audit on the implementation of key recommendations: supervision of continuing professional development organisations
Bern, 01.07.2026 — Continuing professional development (CPD) organisations provide services that create added value not only for their members, but for the entire continuing education and training sector. They inform the public about CPD topics and raise awareness of lifelong learning. They coordinate, promote new methods, build networks and contribute to quality assurance and quality improvement in continuing education and training. That is why the federal government supports the organisations financially: the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) provides financial assistance to CPD organisations on request. In 2020, the Swiss Federal Audit Office (SFAO) conducted an audit to determine whether CPD organisations use the federal financial assistance properly and whether SERI's supervision of CPD organisations is efficient and effective. That audit contained five recommendations, two of which have since been closed. In this follow-up audit, the SFAO assessed whether SERI has implemented the three remaining recommendations made at the time.