Project Submission
Purpose of the Ambros Lüthi Foundation
Promoting research and teaching in various areas of economics and ecology from the perspectives of economic, business and/or environmental ethics: that is the purpose set up by the Ambros Lüthi Foundation established in late 2012 in memory of that remarkable personality of the University of Fribourg, who suddenly passed away in 2008.
Prize of the Ambros Lüthi Foundation
The Foundation awards the Prize of 5’000 Swiss Francs every two years to an end-of-studies document chosen through its evaluation procedure.
Eligibility
The call for works is open to any person affiliated with a Swiss university or research institute.
Topics
The research works submitted to the evaluation for the Prize have to be accomplished (at least substantially) within the last three years before the deadline of submission. The work must pertain to (at least) one of the following four areas:
- socio-economic studies
- econometric studies
- studies of alternative economic models
- works related to scientific, technological or organizational innovation and/or to their technology transfer.
Moreover, the research work must be of relevance from the perspectives of economic, business and/or environmental ethics.
For more information, please consult the Foundation's by-laws.
Documentation
The documentation of the submitted research work must include the following pieces of information:
1. A description summarizing the work (not more than 1 page) consisting of:
1.1 the title of the work
1.2 the keywords characterizing the issues addressed in the work
1.3 the abstract of the work
2. Information about each member of the research work (not more than 1 page):
2.1 the family name, the first name and the date of birth 2.2 the academic title and discipline
2.2 the academic title and discipline
2.3 the institution, the department and the function
2.4 the postal address, the telephone number and the email address
3. The research work
Jury
The panel of experts that evaluates the submissions consists of three persons:
| Georges Enderle | Ryan Professor of International Business Ethics at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA |
| Giovanni Sommaruga | Titular Professor of Logic at the University of Fribourg and Master of Conference at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ) |
| Marino Widmer | Professor of Computer Science at the University of Fribourg |
Calendar
Deadline
30 April 2018. Late submissions will not be taken into consideration.
Submission
By electronic mail, in pdf format: submission@ambrosluethifoundation.ch
Contact
Questions may be sent to: submission@ambrosluethifoundation.ch