Interview (06.09.2019, 13.00 Uhr)

Twenty-eight PhD and Masters students from around the world and from various disciplines addressed ethical challenges in a global context at the Lucerne Summer University in early June. This year's second edition was dedicated to dialogue and cooperation.

The age of paid work is rapidly coming to an end, says ethics professor Peter G. Kirchschlaeger. But what should come afterwards? Kirchschlaeger now presents an alternative economic and social model at the University of Lucerne.

The US acknowledged Novartis' new drug - the most expensive drug in the world with more than two million. The podium in the Rocheturm discussed issues in the environment.

At the beginning of June 2019, the international Summer University will be held at the University of Lucerne on the theme "Ethics in a Global Context". The event will be opened by the Nigerian environmental activist and winner of the alternative Nobel Prize Nnimmo Bassey.

Discussion panels at SRF-Arena on the topic of bought politicians. Austria's government is in crisis triggered by the video affair surrounding the vice-chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache. This promised a supposed Russian oligarch government orders. Can something like this also happen in Switzerland? And how independent are our politicians?

The European University Institute (EUI) and the University of Lucerne step up their cooperation in research and education. Last Saturday in Florence, the Presidents of the two academic institutions signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) including initial implementation steps.

The Competency Center for Logistics and Transport Law (KOLT) held a two-day conference at University of Lucerne under the heading «Transportation Law on the Move: Challenges in the Modern Logistics World». The conference, co-chaired by Prof. Dr. Andreas Furrer and PD Dr. Viola Heutger, was held on 25th/26th of April 2019 with 20 speakers and several guests from 6 different countries. The speakers were internationally recognized academic experts in transportation law and practitioners in leading positions. The participants shared their experience, analysis and visions on modern national and international transportation law embedded in a modern logistics and supply chain management.

"Who does not contradict becomes a donor?" The organ donation initiative promotes a reorganization of organ donation. Could such a "counter solution" increase the willingness to donate in Switzerland? And what about the moral obligation and the free will to donate organs? Prof. Dr. Peter G. Kirchschlaeger is participating in a discussion on these questions on Tele Z.

How to improve the use of evidence-based health (care) information in practice and policy? The role of rapid reviews and policy briefs, and their synergistic effects.