5th Swiss Animal-Environmental Ethics Network Meeting

The fifth "Swiss Animal-Environmental Ethics Network Meeting” takes place on November 5, 2026 at the University of Fribourg (Campus Pérolles).

Issues related to animal and environmental ethics are increasingly at the center of political, societal, and academic debates. In times of emerging zoonotic disease outbreaks and climate change, the question of what humans owe to nature and animals is one of the most pressing issue humanity is currently facing. In Switzerland, research in both fields is undertaken at several institutions and different faculties and research groups that share common challenges and overlapping research interests. 

The goal of this meeting and hopefully future meetings is to facilitate networking between different institutions and researchers working in the field of animal and/or environmental ethics in Switzerland. The idea of this one-day meeting is to give researchers in these fields an opportunity to present and inform each other about their ongoing and future projects. Furthermore, the event aims to establish new collaborations and synergies for research, teaching and funding opportunities, and facilitate an exchange about where future challenges lie with regards to the ethics of human-animal-environmental relations and other pressing environmental challenges.

Registration - open

You can register for the event by filling in the form below. The registration is free of charge. Deadline for the registration is October 29.

Call for Papers - closed

We invite junior and senior researchers working in the field of animal and/or environmental ethics in Switzerland to propose contributions for this networking workshop by submitting a 500-word abstract via this site (see below). Contributions in the form of a presentation of either current or future (or both) projects should be approximately 15-20 min long and will be followed by time for discussion. Deadline for submissions is 27. September 2026. 

You can apply by filling out the from below. 

Organizers

• Simon Kräuchi, University of Fribourg
• Anna Deplazes Zemp, University of Zürich
• Angela Martin, University of Fribourg
• Ivo Wallimann-Helmer, University of Fribourg
• Markus Wild, University of Basel

Contact

In case of questions, please email to simon.kraeuchi@unifr.ch.

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