The University of Liechtenstein, the Private University in the Principality of Liechtenstein (UFL) and the Liechtenstein Institute together form the Liechtenstein University Network. All three institutions conduct scientific research with very different focuses. On March 27, 2024, the three institutions presented themselves to the interested public for the second time as part of a joint event with a panel discussion, poster exhibition and science slam at the UFL in Triesen.
US Ambassador Scott C. Miller and 22 of his staff from Bern visited Liechtenstein for a two-day stay to set up a pop-up embassy. During their stay, they visited various institutions in the country, including the University of Liechtenstein.
At the University of Liechtenstein's graduation ceremony on Friday, March 22, 2024, one doctorate was awarded and 49 graduates of the University of Liechtenstein received their diplomas. Awards for outstanding achievements were also presented to seven graduates.
Anna Heringer will teach again at the School of Architecture starting from the summer semester of 2024. She has been intermittently teaching as a lecturer for design at the university since the summer semester of 2019, and now, following a successful selection process, she has been appointed as a practical professor for two semesters.
Based on the agreement between the government and the Swiss Federal Council on the promotion of science-based innovation of 26 January 2021 and the corresponding commitment credit approved by Parliament, the Swiss Innosuisse innovation promotion program is also available to companies and research institutions in Liechtenstein.
Ass. Prof. Giovanni Apruzzese von der Professur Data & Application Security präsentierte am "APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime research (eCrime)" in Barcelona das Paper "Do users fall for real adversarial phishing? Investigating the human response to evasive webpages", das von ihm gemeinsam mit Ajka Draganovic, Javier Aldana Iuit (Avast Software), Savono Dambra und Kevin Roundy (beide Norton Research Group) verfasst wurde.
In the summer semester of 2023, the lecturers Alberto Alessi and Anna Lohs of the Advanced Studio Upcycling worked with their students on a series of interventions in the partially disused and abandoned historic center of the village of Castè, in the municipality of Riccò del Golfo della Spezia.
Discontinuities in the market create space for disruptive business opportunities. Companies are therefore increasingly interested in proactively identifying future competitive advantages. Researchers Marie Scheuffele, Dr. Niklas Bayrle-Kelso and Prof. Dr. Leo Brecht published their paper on Data-Driven Foresight in Digital Disruption and Transformation Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics 2024.
Prof. Dr. Michael Hanke, together with Prof. Nicole Branger (University of Münster) and Prof. Alex Weissensteiner (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano), published the paper "The information content of wheat derivatives regarding the Ukrainian war" in the Journal of Futures Markets in February.
The PIRANESI Award 2023 exhibition can be viewed in the foyer of the University of Liechtenstein until March 22. The Piranesi Award presents various projects of different sizes and programs that reflect a successful relationship between modern architecture and its natural, cultural, historical and social context.
The Accenture Campus Innovation Challenge is a cross-university and cross-national case study competition organized by the management consultancy Accenture (one of the largest companies in the world with around 750,000 employees), in which students develop ideas for creating benefits through new technologies.