Fachstelle für Rassismusbekämpfung, GS-EDI

What Fachstelle für Rassismusbekämpfung, GS-EDI does

The Fachstelle für Rassismusbekämpfung (FRB) is a federal agency of the Swiss Confederation within the Generalsekretariat EDI (Federal Department of Home Affairs), headquartered in Bern and established in 2001. Its functional mandate is to monitor, prevent, and combat racism in Switzerland, serving a diffuse beneficiary base that includes victims of racist incidents, civil society organizations, cantonal and communal authorities, academic researchers, and the broader public. The agency does not generate commercial revenue; its operations are funded through the Swiss federal budget.

FRB's product surface spans (i) the Rassismus in Zahlen monitoring publication, issued since 2010 as a recurring empirical baseline on racist incidents; (ii) the Beratungsnetz, a coordinated network of 23 counseling centers providing direct support to victims; (iii) legal guidance on anti-discrimination law; (iv) project funding administration via the eSubventionen platform; (v) digital response tooling, notably the Meldeplattform for reporting racist online hate speech launched in 2021; and (vi) public education products such as the 4x4 model folded poster (February 2026) and the FRB podcast channel launched in 2021 alongside the FRB kompakt newsletter. The agency operates with a small staff of approximately 7 and partners with civil society organizations (SIG, CICAD, GRA) and government entities (SEM, SFM).

Its business model is non-commercial: FRB is financed via parliamentary appropriations, distributes project-based subsidies through eSubventionen, and derives strategic authority from its statutory coordinating role. The December 2025 adoption of Switzerland's first national anti-racism and antisemitism strategy (2026-2031) by the Federal Council, and FRB's contribution to the December 2025 UN CERD report, formalize an expanded mandate positioning FRB as the federal anchor for a multi-year, government-wide program.

Name

Fachstelle für Rassismusbekämpfung, GS-EDI

Legal name

Fachstelle für Rassismusbekämpfung FRB

Website

https://frb.admin.ch

Company type

Public

Founded year

2001

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

The Fachstelle für Rassismusbekämpfung (FRB) is a Swiss federal agency under GS-EDI, founded in 2001 and based in Bern, that coordinates Switzerland's national response to racism. It runs the 23-center Beratungsnetz counseling network, publishes the Rassismus in Zahlen monitoring report, administers anti-racism project funding via eSubventionen, and serves victims, civil society, and government stakeholders.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Public Sector Anti-Racism Services

NAICS

Public Administration (92)

SIC

Services-Engineering, Accounting, Research, Management (8700)

akta.pro primary industry

Central Government Policy, Strategy & Performance (incl. OMB-style functions) (BPAIAAAB)

Keywords

• Racism prevention services
• Anti-discrimination coordination
• Human rights monitoring
• National racism strategy
• Civil society project funding

Headquarters

HQ city

Bern

HQ country

Switzerland

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

The FRB is the Swiss federal government's national-level body for the prevention and combating of racism and the promotion of human rights. It designs, promotes, and coordinates measures at federal, cantonal, and communal levels, with core tasks including racism monitoring and international reporting, the development and coordination of the national strategy against racism and antisemitism, supporting prevention measures, and funding projects through the eSubventionen platform. It delivers free public services including biannual monitoring reports, legal guidance, counseling referrals through a 23-center nationwide network, publications, podcasts, and a glossary.

Product overview

Fachstelle für Rassismusbekämpfung (FRB) is a Swiss federal government office (Fachstelle) responsible for the prevention and combating of racism at the national level. Rather than a commercial software product, it provides public services including: the biennial 'Rassismus in Zahlen' (Racism in Numbers) monitoring system, publications and studies, podcasts ('Antirassismus: einfach komplex' and 'Reden wir! 20 Stimmen zu Rassismus'), project funding programs via the eSubventionen platform, advisory and legal referral services, a terminology glossary, and the 'FRB kompakt' newsletter. These services work together to document racism, support victims, fund anti-racism projects, and raise public awareness across Switzerland.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Antirassismus: einfach komplex: A podcast series providing conversations with actors involved in combating racism, exploring diverse perspectives on anti-racism work across different regions of Switzerland.
• Reden wir! 20 Stimmen zu Rassismus
• FRB kompakt

Products and services

• Rassismus in Zahlen (Racism in Numbers) Biannual monitoring system and report series tracking racism and racial discrimination in Switzerland by combining population surveys, counseling statistics, legal decisions, and hate crime data; serves government bodies, civil society, researchers, and the public.
• Projektförderung (Project Funding) Financial support program for projects combating racism and antisemitism and promoting human rights protection; available to civil society organizations and NGOs through the federal eSubventionen platform with criteria-based evaluation.
• Beratung und Recht (Counseling and Legal Advisory) Information and referrals to counseling and reporting services for victims and witnesses of racist discrimination, including referral to the nationwide network of 23 specialized counseling centers (Beratungsnetz für Rassismusopfer).
• Publikationen (Publications) Studies and reports documenting the FRB's engagement in combating racism, providing analysis and current data on topics including structural racism, anti-Muslim racism, and antisemitism; available as free downloads.
• Glossar (Glossary) Working definitions of terms related to racism and racial discrimination used by the FRB, covering foundational concepts and specific forms of racism; available as a free online reference.
• Podcasts (Antirassismus: einfach komplex / Reden wir! 20 Stimmen zu Rassismus) Two podcast series produced by the FRB — "Antirassismus: einfach komplex" featuring ongoing discussions with anti-racism actors across Swiss regions (German and French), and "Reden wir! 20 Stimmen zu Rassismus," a ten-part series of 20 expert voices marking the FRB's 20th anniversary in 2021; distributed on streaming platforms.
• FRB kompakt (Newsletter) Email newsletter providing updates on new FRB publications, innovative tools, and news from Switzerland and abroad related to racism prevention and combating antisemitism.

Quantifiable outcome

• 17% of the Swiss population (approx. 1.2 million people aged 15-88) reported experiencing racist discrimination in the past five years (2024)
• +4 more outcomes

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

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Feature4 records

Partnerships

13 partnerships are on record, tiered major, core and minor.

• Meldeplattform für rassistische Online-Hassrede (reportonlineracism.ch)majorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2021Launched at the end of 2021 by the EKR, this platform allows the public to report racist online hate speech. The FRB uses data from this platform in its monitoring of racism in Switzerland.
• Beratungsnetz für RassismusopfercoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerA nationwide network of 23 specialized counseling centers across all Swiss cantons providing consultation to victims of racist discrimination. The network also operates the DoSyRa (Dokumentationssystem Rassismus) database, which the FRB uses as a key data source for its monitoring reports.
• Eidgenössische Kommission gegen Rassismus (EKR)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe EKR is an independent federal commission that receives complaints about racist discrimination, maintains a collection of legal decisions under Art. 261bis StGB, operates the reporting platform reportonlineracism.ch, and issues recommendations. The FRB collaborates with EKR on monitoring, policy, and reporting activities.
• Staatssekretariat für Migration (SEM)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe SEM co-commissions the Erhebung "Zusammenleben in der Schweiz" (ZidS) survey together with the FRB, providing key data on racism and migration for the FRB's monitoring activities.
• Bundesamt für Statistik (BFS)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe BFS conducts the Erhebung "Zusammenleben in der Schweiz" (ZidS) and calculates key indicators including the racism index and hostility indices toward specific population groups. The FRB uses BFS data as the primary quantitative foundation for its biannual monitoring reports.
• Schweizerisches Forum für Migrations- und Bevölkerungsstudien (SFM), Universität NeuenburgcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe SFM conducts specialized data analyses of the ZidS survey results for the FRB, providing detailed breakdowns of racist discrimination by context, demographics, and discrimination characteristics used in FRB monitoring publications.
• Kantonale Integrationsprogramme (KIP)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe FRB works with all Swiss cantons through the Cantonal Integration Programs (KIP), supporting the implementation of discrimination protection measures, institutional opening, and counseling services at the cantonal level.
• Schweizerischer Israelitischer Gemeindebund (SIG)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe SIG monitors antisemitic incidents in Switzerland and publishes annual reports. Their data contributes to the FRB's overall monitoring picture of racism and antisemitism in Switzerland.
• Coordination Intercommunautaire contre l'Antisémitisme et la Diffamation (CICAD)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCICAD monitors antisemitic incidents in French-speaking Switzerland and publishes reports. Their data contributes to the FRB's monitoring and is referenced in FRB publications on antisemitism.
• Stiftung gegen Rassismus und Antisemitismus (GRA)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe GRA operates a media monitoring system tracking racist and antisemitic incidents in Switzerland, contributing data to the FRB's overall monitoring framework.
• Föderation Islamischer Dachorganisationen Schweiz (FIDS)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerFIDS operates a reporting and legal consultation service for discrimination cases affecting Muslims in Switzerland. Their data on anti-Muslim racism incidents contributes to FRB monitoring.
• Bundesamt für Kommunikation (BAKOM)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerBAKOM conducted a study on digital hate speech regulation in Switzerland (2021). The FRB collaborates with BAKOM on issues related to racism online and policy recommendations for platform regulation.
• Bundesamt für Sozialversicherungen (BSV) – Plattform "Jugend und Medien"minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe FRB works with the BSV's "Youth and Media" platform on sensitization and prevention of racism in digital spaces, particularly among young people.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Eidgenössische Kommission gegen Rassismus (EKR): Independent federal commission within the same EDI department, also mandated to combat racism. Operates the reportonlineracism.ch platform and the EKR decision collection under Art. 261bis StGB. Functions as FRB's closest national sister agency with overlapping but legally distinct mandate (complaints vs. coordination/monitoring).
• Stiftung gegen Rassismus und Antisemitismus (GRA): Swiss foundation operating a media-monitoring system for racist and antisemitic incidents, whose data feeds directly into FRB's monitoring framework. Smaller and more specialized than FRB, but directly comparable on the media-monitoring function.
• Anti-Diskriminierungsstelle des Bundes (Germany): German federal anti-discrimination agency under the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs. Provides counseling, publishes independent reports, commissions research, and advises government — a near-analogous mandate to FRB but covering all discrimination grounds under the AGG rather than racism/antisemitism specifically.
• College voor de Rechten van de Mens (Netherlands): Dutch national human rights institute monitoring discrimination and advising government and parliament. Functions as both human-rights institute and anti-discrimination body, providing a comparable small-team model combining monitoring, research, and policy advice.

Others

• Staatssekretariat für Migration (SEM): Swiss federal migration office, a sibling EDI agency that co-commissions the ZidS population survey feeding FRB's monitoring. Functions as a key data-partner and policy neighbor rather than a competitor — included because the structural partnership is core to FRB's operating model.
• OSCE/ODIHR: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, which produces hate crime reporting frameworks and provides tools used by national bodies including FRB. Functions as a thematic enabler and methodology source rather than a direct competitor.
• Council of Europe — ECRI: European Commission against Racism and Intolerance, the Council of Europe body that monitors racism in member states and issues country-specific recommendations. Switzerland (and by extension FRB) is subject to ECRI's monitoring cycles, making it a key international counterpart and standards-setter.

Broad incumbents

• EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA): EU-level agency providing comparative data, legal analysis, and policy advice on fundamental rights including racism. FRB's monitoring methodologies (e.g., EU-MIDIS alignment) and reporting draw on and feed into FRA frameworks, making it a relevant methodological peer at supranational scale.
• Deutsches Institut für Menschenrechte: Germany's independent national human rights institution, accredited A-status by the UN. Combines monitoring, policy advice, research, and education — a structurally similar role to FRB at a larger national scale and with a broader human-rights mandate beyond racism.
• Défenseur des droits (France): French independent constitutional authority handling discrimination complaints, monitoring, and policy advice. Operates a national network of delegated attorneys and publishes thematic reports — broader mandate than FRB but methodologically the closest French analog for monitoring + referral infrastructure.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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