100th anniversary of the Lucerna Foundation

The Lucerna Foundation is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. From the very beginning, it has promoted tertiary education in Central Switzerland and has tirelessly devoted itself to current social issues. With the founding of the University of Lucerne in 2000, it saw its original foundation purpose largely fulfilled and increasingly devoted itself to transdisciplinary thinking between the sciences and the arts in order to open up new fields of opportunity for sustainable social development. This will be celebrated at an anniversary event with a public panel discussion.

We live in volatile, complex and fast-moving times. This calls for new and different approaches to education and research. Climate and biodiversity disasters are omnipresent, the replacement of thinking with AI is challenging our everyday lives, but social and (geo)political rifts are also provoking complex upheavals. These are just a few examples.

We want to discuss this ‘complex’ world with the panellists below and sketch out future images, hopes and options in an associative, creative and spontaneous way. The focus will be on where/how education and its (tertiary) institutions (in Central Switzerland) can provide support, how strategies can be developed and how to respond positively and creatively to the relevant challenges. The discussion will focus not on analysing problems, but on promising projects and approaches in the higher education sector (questions of trans- and interdisciplinarity, cooperation between institutions and regions, the intellectual ‘breeding ground’ of Central Switzerland, new methodological approaches, etc.).

Podium and subsequent aperitif with

Prof. Dr. Boris Previšić 
Titular Professor of Literature and Cultural Studies, University of Lucerne
President of the Lucerna Foundation Board, introduction

Prof. Dr. Jacqueline Holzer
Director HSLU Art & Design

Prof. Dr. Walter Leimgruber 
Professor of Cultural Anthropology, University of Basel

Dr. Ueli Habegger
Former Cultural Officer, City of Lucerne and Monument Conservator, Canton of Lucerne

Dr. Remo Reginold
Moderation