Information on the application for the LSUE 2024
Who can apply
- MA students from all disciplines who have never participated in a previous LSUE
- Good command of English: the entire LSUE is conducted in English
- A final paper (10-12 pages) needs to be submitted
At the end of the application period, all the applications will be reviewed by an international jury. 20 students are selected and invited to join the LSUE 2023 in Lucerne, Switzerland.
Please fill out the application questionnaire to apply for the LSUE 2023.
Following documents are required
- Curriculum vitae (about one page/tabular form)
- Recommendation letters from two professors (one page each)
- Letter of motivation (about one page/max. 500 words)
- An outline of your project proposal
Your contribution to building a Global Network for Sustainable Responsibility will consist of a project which addresses and ethical challenge in your own context. During the LSUE, you will acquire the necessary ethical know-how and skills
Working steps prior to the LSUE:
1. Identify an ethical challenge in your context
2. Characterize this ethical challenge
Working steps during and after the LSUE
3. Discuss ethical aspects and possible solution of your project in a final paper
4. Project planning and possible implementation of the project (NOT mandatory)
- Students of the LSUE will be awarded 6 ECTS upon successful completion of the programme.
- Students from other institutions will be responsible for organising the transfer of credit points.
- No tuition fees
- The LSUE offers financial support for travel, room and board.
Several experts from all over the world have already agreed to participate in the LSUE 2023 with various contributions:
- Dafna Feinholz, Chief of the Bioethics and Ethics of Science and Technology Section of UNESCO
- Jacqueline Bhabha, Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University
- Gwendolyn Burchell, Founder of Braille Teach (Horizon Next) and UAFA - United Aid For Azerbaijan's Director
- Dr. Eliane Dos Santos Cavalleiro, Center for Latin American Studies, Stanford University
- Zohre Esmaeli, social entrepreneur, model, speaker, Berlin
- Christoph Inauen, Board Member Choba Choba Foundation, Switzerland
- Prof. Morten Kjaerum, Director of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in Sweden
- Melissa Ortiz, Human Rights Officer, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, expert in the adaptation and mitigation of indigenous peoples to climate change
Further Questions

We are looking forward to hearing form you!
Andrea Murer, Koordinatorin der Lucerne Summer University: Ethics in a Global Context LSUE under the patronage of UNESCO