The faculties of the University of Fribourg award the Vigener Prizes during the Dies Academicus ceremony. The prize from the Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences will be awarded jointly to Dr.Patricia Schafer for her doctoral thesis Doktorarbeit „Political institutions, society, and the functioning of democracy - Four essays in political economy‚ and Dr. Fabian Muff for his doctoral thesis ‘Metamodeling for Extended Reality“ awarded.