The University of Lucerne is launching the first course in Family Offices and Strategic Philanthropy in Switzerland with the Ashoka business network. The course will start next autumn.

With the creation of an international agency for data-based systems (DSA), Prof. Dr. Peter G. Kirchschlaeger calls for a human rights-based regulation that promotes innovation and embeds ethics in the innovation process.

The current crises force politics, but also each and every individual, to make decisions. Ethics as a science that reflects on the good life can help here. How a growing range of courses aims to meet this need for orientation.

Whether in digital transformation, in business or in healthcare: Decisions should be in line with ethical values. But who says what is right or wrong? A conversation with Prof. Dr. Peter G. Kirchschlaeger, Director of Studies of the new Master's Program in Ethics.

The third lecture of this year's Children's University led into the world of ethics and was held by Prof. Dr. Peter G. Kirchschlaeger: What are children's rights and what responsibilities do they entail?

Adrienne Hochuli, Research Fellow and PhD Student (Lucerne Graduate School in Ethics) at the Institute of Social Ethics ISE, comments on the extension of the use of Covid certificates starting from Monday 13 September 2021 in an article on "Pilatus Today".

On the initiative of the Institute of Social Ethics ISE a fund for persons with refugee experience was created at the University of Lucerne. This was communicated by the university to the public in an announcement on July 22, 2021.

Prof. Dr. Peter G Kirchschlaeger has been elected by the Federal Council to the Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology (ECNH) on June 4, 2021. In an interview with Georges Scherrer he talks about his new advisory function and his role as a theological ethicist.

Leoluca Orlando gave the opening lecture at the «Lucerne Summer University: Ethics in a Global Context LSUE» under the patronage of UNESCO on Thursday, June 10, 2021. Within the framework of the LSUE, the mayor of Palermo talks to "Blick" about his commitment to human rights, the fight against mafia and corruption and about the city of Palermo and its people.

Mira Burri, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, has received the Lucerne Government Council's Recognition Award. This award is in recognition of her research in the field of digital transformation and international trade law.