The General Secretariat serves as the administrative office of swissuniversities and ensures central services in the interests of the universities as well as the federal government and university cantons. The General Secretariat of swissuniversities supports the committees and delegations of swissuniversities in their administrative duties and is responsible for the management of multiple programmes and projects. It carries out the mandates on behalf of the federal government, university cantons and third parties that swissuniversities has accepted.