Federal Ministry of Education and Science performs administrative, professional and other tasks falling under competencies of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the areas of:
- preschool education, elementary school education and secondary school education;
- pedagogical standards, standards in area of premises, equipment and teaching aids in preschool, elementary and secondary school education processes;
- validation and equalization of the foreign school certificates and diplomas;
- training and professional specialization of the teaching staff; text-books for elementary and secondary schools;
- researching tasks aimed at improvement of the educational work, standards for university-level education;
- pupils and students standard of living;
- development of scientific activity;
- protection of copyrights and intellectual property;
- coordination of scientific-researching activities;
- development of the scientific-researching institutions;
- encouragement of fundamental applied researches;
- development of investment technologies and human resources in scientific-researching field;
- follow-up innovations;
- development and improvements technologies;
- and other tasks as laid down by the legislation governing this field
The homepage of the ministry is available in Czech only.