📋 Tender Overview
In a long-term study on maintenance, the army will be surveying young adults from the time of their recruitment starting in 2025. The aim is to gain additional scientific knowledge about the challenges of compulsory or voluntary service. The personnel maintenance of Swiss security organizations is facing challenges for a variety of reasons. The expectations and demands of army members regarding the compatibility of military service and private life, professional development, and leisure activities are constantly changing. In order to better understand these diverse developments from the perspective of young adults and to improve the data available for future adjustments, the army has initiated the long-term study on maintenance. A recruiting year group will be surveyed over the first few years of their service career about the factors influencing the type of service, dropouts, and service performance. In addition, the experiences and views of young adults in and with their service are to be examined in order to be able to align the framework conditions appropriately with training, profession and interests. Various measures to secure the stocks. The long-term study is one of the measures with which the army is continuously examining whether and how the training model can be optimized.
This is done separately from the further work of the Federal Council to secure the stocks of the army and civil defense. In the medium term, the two revision drafts of the Population and Civil Protection Act (BZG) and the Civilian Service Act (ZDG) should lead to an improvement in remuneration. As a long-term measure to secure the stocks of the army and civil defense, the Federal Department of Defense, Civil Protection and Sport (DDPS) is examining two alternative compulsory service models in cooperation with the Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research (EAER). Surveys will last for five yearsThe long-term study will accompany the 2025 recruits over the first five years of their compulsory service. With annual online surveys of the same group of people, the relevant factors are collected at different times.
This approach makes it possible for the first time to understand the influencing factors and motives for different service courses over time. Civil protection and community service workers are also surveyed. In addition to those required to do military service, members of the civil protection and service as well as those not fit for service are also surveyed. Known challenges of compulsory service such as compatibility with civilian life, meaningfulness, cadre training or organizational culture can be compared for different types of service using this approach. This means that future decisions can be made on the basis of broader scientific foundations. The study is being carried out by the Institute for Evolutionary Medicine at the University of Zurich. Participants will be surveyed for the first time on a voluntary basis in 2025 at the six recruitment centers of the Swiss Army.
