The MILSA mentoring program provides guest students with the opportunity to develop their intercultural awareness and intercultural learning as students and future professionals. The program is offered twice yearly with a duration of one semester. It starts during the Introduction Week.
The mentoring program provides an immersive intercultural learning experience in an international location. Students' learning is supported by arrival and departure workshops, and by interviews and guided blog writing during their stay at the University of Liechtenstein. The mentor is a lecturer of the University of Liechtenstein.
The pre-departure workshop introduces students to explore aspects of intercultural learning and helps them prepare for their experience in a different society and culture.
During the semester, students will talk to the mentor during a personal interview and write guided blog contributions about their intercultural learning. They stay in contact and complete group task together. Shortly before their return home, students meet with the mentor in a departure workshop to discuss and reflect upon their experiences and the importance of their intercultural learning for their future professional lives.
The subject includes content on notions of culture, interculturality, intercultural learning,
stereotypes, identities, cultural practices, and reflection and reflective writing.
The First Steps in Intercultural Learning Workshop is held during the Introduction Week. This workshop provides essential content, discussion and activities to prepare students for their intercultural learning, international experience and to guide their completion of assessment tasks.
The Departure Workshop takes place at the end of the semester and allows the students to reflect on their experience, particularly their intercultural learning and its
application to their future professional lives. Students also present their group assignment.

Workshops, discussions, writing blog contributions, Skype interview, online survey

• To acquire and improve intercultural learning skills
• To reflect on expectations for study abroad
• To reflect on and discuss experiences while studying abroad; to reflect on the
• behaviours and values in the host and home cultures
• To practice observation and reflection in writing and in conversation
• To reflect on one's use of the language of the host country and other languages used during study abroad
• To encourage students to think about the study abroad experience in terms of their professional life

• To acquire and improve intercultural learning skills
• To reflect on expectations for study abroad
• To reflect on and discuss experiences while studying abroad; to reflect on the
• behaviours and values in the host and home cultures
• To practice observation and reflection in writing and in conversation
• To reflect on one's use of the language of the host country and other languages used during study abroad
• To encourage students to think about the study abroad experience in terms of their professional life

"Culture and the primary socialization process" by Janet Jackson"

Supplied during the course
Maximizing Study Abroad, A Students' Guide to Strategies for Language and Culture Learning and Use
By R. Michael Paige, Andrew D. Cohen, Barbara Kappler Mikk, Julie C. Chi, & James P. Lassegard, Minnesota University Press

Grading

Assessment tasks:

• Attending the First Steps in Intercultural Learning and Coming Home workshops
• Writing three blog contributions
• Completing one peer group task
• Filling in online survey

Compulsory attendance 100%

Grading

Assessment tasks:

• Attending the First Steps in Intercultural Learning and Coming Home workshops
• Writing three blog contributions
• Completing one peer group task
• Filling in online survey

Compulsory attendance 100%

Fakultätsübergreifendes Wahlfach:
Regeln für die Anmeldung: www.uni.li/cross-faculty

Distributed ledgers and especially blockchains have primarily become known for their key role in the rise of cryptocurrencies. Distributed ledger technology (DLT) is a generalized term for the cryptographic technology cryptocurrencies (e.g., Bitcoin) and blockchain networks are based on. Distributed ledgers are described as decentralized database systems spread over a multitude of network participants. Information stored and spread within the network can only be altered and added by a democratic consensus mechanism. This forms a more secure, reliable and trustworthy system compared to centralized, server-based data storage. Each blockchain protocol balances security, scalability, efficiency, and performance to meet the needs of its application purpose. Blockchain technology and linked use cases have witnessed tremendous adoption since the introduction of Bitcoin in 2008. For example, DLT and blockchains also build the base for digital representation of physical goods and of rights.

The goal of this class is twofold. The first section of the class will explain what exactly this technology is and what problem this technology solves. You do not need any prior knowledge of those technologies and terms.

The second part will investigate practical use cases, blockchains in the light of money, the Liechtenstein legislation, and further trends how this technology can impact the world in which we live.

The class will analyze different facets of blockchains, including its socio-cultural as well as socio-economic consequences.

Interactive lectures with group work, group presentation and assignments.

Participants will:

• Acquire knowledge about the technological fundamentals of blockchain and related technologies and can explain the most common consensus mechanisms.
• Understand how blockchain and related technologies may impact our daily life and how the individual student can benefit from the gathered insights.
• Know what smart contracts are and have a basic knowledge of how to code a simple ERC20 Token
• Understand the principles of tokenization and can distinguish between different types of cryptocurrencies or blockchains accordingly to their field of application.
• Have basic knowledge of current changes happening in commerce and finance with respect to blockchains.
• Learn how to familiarize themselves with a topic foreign to them.
• (Non-native speakers) enlarge their vocabulary in areas of technology and finance.
• Improve their critical thinking, social interaction and scientific skills.
• Train their behavior in verbal communication, presentation and discussion.
• Practice the autonomous conduct of short written reports.

This seminar will be an opportunity to get familiar with basic concepts and terminology concerning blockchain and trustworthy technology. It provides an opportunity to learn about the application of blockchain technologies in real world cases and to discuss future fields of application.

Participants will:

• Acquire knowledge about the technological fundamentals of blockchain and related technologies and can explain the most common consensus mechanisms.
• Understand how blockchain and related technologies may impact our daily life and how the individual student can benefit from the gathered insights.
• Know what smart contracts are and have a basic knowledge of how to code a simple ERC20 Token
• Understand the principles of tokenization and can distinguish between different types of cryptocurrencies or blockchains accordingly to their field of application.
• Have basic knowledge of current changes happening in commerce and finance with respect to blockchains.
• Learn how to familiarize themselves with a topic foreign to them.
• (Non-native speakers) enlarge their vocabulary in areas of technology and finance.
• Improve their critical thinking, social interaction and scientific skills.
• Train their behavior in verbal communication, presentation and discussion.
• Practice the autonomous conduct of short written reports.

This seminar will be an opportunity to get familiar with basic concepts and terminology concerning blockchain and trustworthy technology. It provides an opportunity to learn about the application of blockchain technologies in real world cases and to discuss future fields of application.

Current articles and information videos
Will be distributed at the beginning of the course.

Presentation slides, interactive documents

Grading

Parts of assessment:

A: Participation within class and in discussions (20%)
B: individual assignment in writing (20%)
C: group projects (30%)
D: final exam (30%)

mandatory presence min. 80%

Grading

Parts of assessment:

A: Participation within class and in discussions (20%)
B: individual assignment in writing (20%)
C: group projects (30%)
D: final exam (30%)

mandatory presence mind. 80%

Fakultätsübergreifendes Wahlfach:
Regeln für die Anmeldung: www.uni.li/cross-faculty

• Language concerns us all. It is important for our interpersonal exchange and for passing on information. However, language can be and is much more than that. By consciously using your language, you promote your entrepreneurial success and an appreciative corporate culture. Hence, the language of a company is always the language of its economic success.
• In this course, you will learn how to use language for your personal and entrepreneurial success using examples of everyday situations in professional as well as private life. Because as the saying goes "your ‚I can' is more important than your IQ".
• This focus on the benefits of a situation, expressed by a language of possibilities, as well as a certain set of attitudes and habits is the common denominator of highly successful and internationally acclaimed leaders in all fields, be it business, politics, sports, culture, etc.
• In times of widespread complexity, revolutionary transformation, and high uncertainty it takes working on yourself, on your inner core. The smartest leaders in the world focus inward in order to harness possibilities, discover new ways to - personal as well as professional - success, and find meaning and purpose in their lives.
• In this course, you will learn and train the most important tools of self-empowerment and self-mastery that distinguish highly successful people from people of mediocrity.

Methodological mix of input, reflection, group work, role play, …

Participants are able to …

• … experience the power of language, and understand and feel the specific, research-based effects of words, phrases, and sentence patterns
• … move from idioms that are exhausting and negative to language-patterns which are uplifting and beneficial
• … increase their personal presence and power of persuasion, advancing their positions and ideas
• … lead richer and more meaningful conversations through hearing what they're really saying and feeling what they actually mean
• … leave pressure and agitation behind, by strengthening their own strength and self
• … create a peaceful and constructive climate, professionally and privately
• … apply ways to make their thinking, confidence, and performance irresistible
• … immediately implement the most important, life-changing tools of self-empowerment
• … change their mindset to winning

Reading material will be provided.

• Course based on continuous assessment, details see under "assessment".
• Meeting attendance obligations is an essential pre-requisite for successfully completing a course based on continuous assessment.
• Attendance must be proven for at least 80% of the stipulated contact time. Responsibility for checking and providing written proof of this obligatory attendance lies with the course lecturer who is required to store this information at least until the end of the semester.
• In the case of absenteeism that exceeds the specified limits of absence, a medical certificate is required. Responsibility lies with the head of the Coordination Office for Cross-Faculty Elective Subjects to approve the reason for the student's failure to attend.
• Participation in other activities of the university are not recognized as an excused absence.

Grading

Assessment tasks:
Part A: (40%) - Attendance and active participation
Part B: (60%) - Presentation during last module
Compulsory attendance (min. 80%)

Fakultätsübergreifendes Wahlfach:
Regeln für die Anmeldung: www.uni.li/cross-faculty

• Concepts, theories and models of diversity
• Managing Diversity
• Theoretical, political and legal concepts of intersectionality
• Interlocking types of discrimination
• Methods to develop diversity+ competencies
• Equality and the right to be different

Lectures and workshops

Participants are able …

• to explain the basic concepts, theories and models of diversity and intersectionality
• to explain the basic theoretical, political and legal concepts of intersectionality
• to apply Diversity Management tools
• to analyse situations of interlocking discrimination
• to develop their own set of diversity+ competences
• to do presentations in English

Understanding the dynamics of difference, promoting equal opportunity and valuing diversity are highly esteemed skills in the diversified and globalized labour market.

Participants are able …

• to explain the basic concepts, theories and models of diversity and intersectionality
• to explain the basic theoretical, political and legal concepts of intersectionality
• to apply Diversity Management tools
• to analyse situations of interlocking discrimination
• to develop their own set of diversity+ competences
• to do presentations in English

Understanding the dynamics of difference, promoting equal opportunity and valuing diversity are highly esteemed skills in the diversified and globalized labour market.

Diversity and Inclusion Handbook
https://ideas.wharton.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Leading-Diversity-in-Organizations_Lever-2017.pdf

To be presented during the course

Course based on continuous assessment; details see under "assessment".
Meeting attendance obligations are an essential pre-requisite for successfully completing a course based on continuous assessment.
Attendance must be proven for at least 80% of the stipulated contact time.
Responsibility for checking and providing written proof of this obligatory attendance lies with the course lecturer who is required to store this information at least until the end of the semester.
In the case of absenteeism that exceeds the specified limits of absence, a medical certificate is required. Responsibility lies with the head of the Coordination Office for Cross-Faculty Elective Subjects to approve the reason for the student's failure to attend.

Grading

Assessment tasks:
Part A: 50 % developing a case study (group work)
Part B: 50 % individual work presentation

Fakultätsübergreifendes Wahlfach:
Regeln für die Anmeldung: www.uni.li/cross-faculty

From the very roots of sustainable development to the dramatic dynamics of rapid climate shifts; from 100% renewable energy supply to organic agriculture; from circular economy to responsible finance; and from the means and modes of philanthropy to regenerative infrastructure: the world-wide seeds of change are all present right here in Liechtenstein.

Professor Droege's survey of the topic, course and workshops provides the fundamentals of sustainability and sustainable development, supplies key tools of critical evaluation and strategic planning frames - and challenges your personal positioning and our collective civic engagement. It separates superficial green postures from deep transformational practice, and creates a transdiscipinary blueprint for concrete agendas and self-sustaining economies informed by natural values and long-term investment.

Guests, among others:
Dr. Miriam Marxer, Ministry for Interior, Economy and Environment
Oliver Karius, CEO, LGT Venture Philanthropy
Simon Tribelhorn, CEO, Liechtenstein Banking Association
Dr. Daniel Gstöhl, President Solar Cooperative Liechtenstein

Sustainable World: a climate for change will travel through a thorough introduction, understand the policy landscapes; review the planning world; explore local and regional environmental settings; investigate sustainable finance; understand principles of organic agriculture; study the building sector's contribution; follow the water trail; explore the role of local government in resilience building; pursues the business and foundations community in advancing notions of resilience; and concludes with sessions of imaginative sense-making, creative positioning and articulate, persuasive presentation.

Verbal/visual presentations, semester paper

Some changes and variations between field visits and in-class sessions may occur.

To achieve a deep and critical understanding of sustainable development, and the analytical tools needed to assess, evaluate, analyse, optimize, and select in organizational, institutional, societal and communal settings.
Critical thinking, methodical development, argumentation, visualization, synthetic planning

To achieve a deep and critical understanding of sustainable development, and the analytical tools needed to assess, evaluate, analyse, optimize, and select in organizational, institutional, societal and communal settings.
Critical thinking, methodical development, argumentation, visualization, synthetic planning

IPCC. 2022. Mitigation of Climate Change. Working Group III Report.
https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg3/
Meadows D.H., Meadows D.L., Randers J., Behrens III W.W. 1972. The Limits to Growth. A Report for The Club of Rome's Project on the Predicament of Mankind. Universe Books.
http://www.donellameadows.org/wp-content/userfiles/Limits-to-Growth-digital-scan-version.pdf

Recommended literature:
Droege, P. 2021. Beyond the deal: Towards the renewable city. In: Abdullah, H. Towards a European Green Deal with Cities - the urban dimension of the European Sustainable Growth Strategy. Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB). https://www.cidob.org/en/publications/publication_series/monographs/monographs/towards_a_european_green_deal_with_cities_the_urban_dimension_of_the_eu_s_sustainable_growth_strategy
https://www.elsevier.com/books/intelligent-environments/droege/978-0-12-820247-0
https://www.elsevier.com/books/urban-and-regional-agriculture/droege/978-0-12-820286-9>
https://www.elsevier.com/books/urban-energy-transition/droege/978-0-08-102074-6

https://www.cidob.org/en/articulos/monografias/green_deal/beyond_green_beyond_the_deal_towards_the_renewable_city

Detailed and specific reading assignments and references will be provided in class.

Grading

Parts of assessment:
A: participating presence 30%
B: home assignment 40%
C: final presentation 30%

Mandatory presence min. 80%

Grading

Parts of assessment:
A: participating presence 30%
B: home assignment 40%
C: final presentation 30%

Mandatory presence min. 80%

Fakultätsübergreifendes Wahlfach:
Regeln für die Anmeldung: www.uni.li/cross-faculty

• Role and Responsibility of Owners
• Practice of Right of Control for Various Actors
• Board structures and diversity
• Theory, Principles, and World-Views
• The Ethical Leader: Self-Mastery and Ethics, Mind-Sets
• Corporate Ethics: Shared Values, Professionalism (as part of Standards of Professional Conduct)

Lecture

Students …

• illustrate the role and responsibility of corporate owners
• explain the right of corporate control
• describe the problem of free riding
• understand the origins, discipline and business case of ethics
• discuss defined moments such as ethical dilemma in the corporate context
• familiarize with the standards of professionalism in particular

• Cost of capital and capital budgeting
• Discounted cash flow valuation and financial multiples
• Payout policy
• Equity and debt financing
• Applications of option pricing theory
• Corporate control and recapitalizations
• Enterprise Risk Management

Exercise

• Are able to apply relevant concepts of corporate finance on an advanced level
• know how to integrate and implement theoretical knowledge in solving practical problems
• are able to explain coherences in financial divisions of undertakings active in global competition
• expand the ability to participate in a critical dialogue within the framework of a team project
• describe enterprise risk management (ERM) and compare and contrast differing definitions of ERM
• distinguish between components of an ERM
• compare the benefits and costs of ERM and describe the motivations for a firm to adopt an ERM initiative
• describe the role and responsibilities of a chief risk officer (CRO)
• assess how the CRO should interact with other senior management

Agrarökologie hat zum Ziel unsere Lebensgrundlagen - Boden, Wasser, Luft, natürliche Vielfalt - nachhaltig zu nutzen. Die Umsetzung dieses Zieles ist nicht beschränkt auf den Acker, stattdessen braucht und schafft die Agrarökologie eine neu-alte Verbindung zwischen den Bauern und den Menschen, die die Lebensmittel essen, also uns allen.
Mit dem Projekt "Agrarökologie Liechtenstein" wollen sich Landwirtschaftsfamilien und Konsumenten zusammentun, gemeinsam Neues ausprobieren und Altes widerentdecken und regionale Vermarktungswege aufbauen, die geprägt sind von Wertschätzung und Fairness. Die Landwirte wollen ihre Höfe öffnen und laden die Öffentlichkeit ein, Landwirtschaft wieder neu kennen zu lernen.
Das Projekt besteht aus drei Teilen: (1) dem "Bionetz", unserem Verbund an agrarökologischen Pionierbetrieben, (2) den "Feldfreunden", einem Verein von und für Alle die gutes Essen schätzen und (3) dem Projekt "Liechtensteiner Weiderinder", unserem Ansatz für eine agrarökologische Nutzung der Wiesen und Weiden. Damit wollen wir ein agrarökologisches System in und für Liechtenstein aufbauen; dies in einem gemeinsamen Prozess mit Landwirtinnen und Landwirten, Konsumenten, Verarbeitern, Bürgerinnen, Kindern, Studenten und Erzieherinnen, Händlern, Lehrern und Politikerinnen und allen Beteiligten; die wir einladen, sich zu beteiligen.
Verschiedene Input-Geber:innen werden das Thema Agrarökologie behandeln, vertieft diskutieren und während Feldbegehungen spürbar machen. Auf Grund dieser Informationen werden die Studierenden Kleinprojekte umsetzen um die Einwohner Liechtensteins für regionale Ernährung zu begeistern und sie herauszufordern, sich für eine bestimmte Zeit regional zu ernähren. Diese Regio Challenge wird in Liechtenstein zum ersten Mal durchgeführt werden. Der Kreativität der Studierenden sind keine Grenzen gesetzt. Jedes Kleinprojekt wird in der Umsetzung begleitet.

Impulsreferate, Hofbesuche, Projektwerkstatt und Projektarbeit

• Ein vertieftes Verständnis über Agrarökologie und die Relevanz der zukunftstauglichen Ernährung und Landwirtschaft erhalten
• Einen Beitrag zur Förderung einer regionalen Ernährung in Liechtenstein leisten
• Projektmanagement Skills vertiefen
• Zusammenarbeit in einem interdisziplinären Team und mit externen Stakeholdern erleben

• Ein vertieftes Verständnis über Agrarökologie und die Relevanz der zukunftstauglichen Ernährung und Landwirtschaft erhalten
• Einen Beitrag zur Förderung einer regionalen Ernährung in Liechtenstein leisten
• Projektmanagement Skills vertiefen
• Zusammenarbeit in einem interdisziplinären Team und mit externen Stakeholdern erleben

Beiträge (u.a.) von

• Dr. Judith Riedel, Institut für Agrarökologie/Verein Feldfreunde
• Flurina Seger, Stiftung Lebenswertes Liechtenstein/Verein Feldfreunde
• Florian Bernardi, KBA Agrarberatung/Verein Feldfreunde
• Andreas Näscher, Bio-Landwirt/Verein Feldfreunde
• Eliane Vogt, Ernährungsberaterin/Verein Feldfreunde

Benotung

A: Umsetzung und Präsentation Kleinprojekt
B: Kurzarbeit: Unerschöpftes Potential der Agrarökologie in Liechtenstein (persönliche Reflexion)

mind. 80% Anwesenheitspflicht

Benotung

A: Umsetzung und Präsentation Kleinprojekt
B: Kurzarbeit: Unerschöpftes Potential der Agrarökologie in Liechtenstein (persönliche Reflexion)

mind. 80% Anwesenheitspflicht

Fakultätsübergreifendes Wahlfach:
Regeln für die Anmeldung: www.uni.li/cross-faculty

Die unglaubliche Vielfalt der Zersiedlung - Interdisziplinäre Summer School für eine nachhaltige Raumentwicklung im Alpenrheintal

Obwohl der Begriff Zersiedlung gemeinhin als einfache Abwertung raumplanerischer Fehlentwicklungen genutzt wird, zeigt sich bei genauerem Hinsehen die unglaubliche Vielfalt zersiedelter urbaner Landschaften. Im Rahmen dieser Summer School begegnen wir dieser Vielfalt auf Ebene der Nachbarschaften, dort wo Einfamilienhaus und Hochregallager, Großwohnsiedlung und Eisenbahntrasse, Maisfeld, Golfplatz und Weltmarktführer aufeinandertreffen. Damit rückt eine Quartiersperspektive (Maßstab 1:500 - 1:2000) in den Mittelpunkt der Betrachtung, bei der nicht von funktionalem Denken ausgegangen wird, sondern von multidimensionalen planerischen und räumlichen Herausforderungen und vielfältigen Lebenswelten von Bewohner*innen. Dabei steht die Frage im Fokus, welche sozialen und baulichen Potentiale eine zersiedelte Region wie das Alpenrheintal mit sich bringt und wie diese experimentell und prototypisch weiterentwickelt werden könnte. Eine inter- und transdisziplinäre Denk- und Arbeitsweise ist daher das Gebot der Stunde, will man diese zersiedelte Landschaft im Sinne einer nachhaltigen Raumentwicklung "re-fitten".

Geographiestudierende der Universität Münster und Architekturstudierende der Universität nähern sich gemeinsam theoretischen Grundlagen, konzeptionellen Zugängen sowie umsetzungsorientierten Methoden für eine nachhaltige Raumentwicklung in ausgewählten Gemeinden des Alpenrheintals an. Ein Konzept aus vier Bausteinen ermöglicht es den Studierenden sich durch Vorträge, Exkursionen und Wanderungen die Lage in der Untersuchungsregion anzueignen und theoretisches Grundwissen durch anregende Literaturarbeit aufzubauen. In interdisziplinär zusammengestellten Projektgruppen werden dann in Zusammenarbeit mit Gemeinden in der Region spezifische Fragestellungen erarbeitet, auf deren Basis Entwurfsansätze und Modelle zur experimentellen Bearbeitung der Fragestellung entwickelt werden. Am Ende der 10 Tage soll ein gemeinsamer Rundgang/Rundfahrt durch die verschiedenen Gemeinden stattfinden, an dem die Ergebnisse präsentiert und diskutiert werden.

Die Teilnehmerzahl ist auf 10 Studierende pro Universität beschränkt. Arbeitssprache ist deutsch.

Aufbau in vier Bausteinen
Seminargruppe = alle 20 Teilnehmenden der Summer School
1. IM FELD: Annäherung an das Alpenrheintal und Vermittlung der Themenstellung durch Exkursionen, Vorträge
2. IM ATELIER: Annäherung an die theoretischen Grundlagen im Rahmen von Literatur-Recherchen und Lesekreisen
Kleingruppen (5 Gruppen à 4 Personen, je zwei Architektur und Geographie)
3. IM FELD: Entwicklung von Fragestellungen und Operationalisierung im Rahmen eines kleinen Forschungsdesigns (Durchführung von Interviews, Beobachtungen etc.)
4. IM ATELIER und IM FELD: Verarbeitung und Umsetzung anhand eines Modells, Experiments, Prototyps

Anwesenheitspflicht 90%
Projektdokumentation