Institute of the Weltethos Foundation
at the University of Tübingen

Welcome to the Weltethos Institute!

The Weltethos Institute (also Global Ethic Institute) is a research and teaching institution at the University of Tübingen with the aim of anchoring value orientation and trust in business and society.

The focus is on offering competence in learning about identity and encounter, as well as ethical language and action in the age of globalization. As part of Hans Küng’s “Global Ethic Project“, the Institute addresses the following question in various ways: Under what conditions can we survive together in cultural, ideological and religious diversity on an habitable earth and shape our individual and social life in a humane way?

To this end, dialogue learning programmes are developed for students and people in organisations and companies. For example, the Global Ethic Ambassador Program for managers or our World Citizen School’s Social Innovation Program for young leaders and student initiatives.

Through research, teaching and transfer into practice, we are committed in this way to a culture of sustainable economic activity for fellow citizens, the environment and posterity.

The director of the institute is theologian and entrepreneur Prof. Dr. Dr. Ulrich Hemel.
The institute is supported by the Karl Schlecht Foundation.

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Latest news

Global Ethic Department opened – Hemel on cooperation visit to Latin America

Institute Director Ulrich Hemel traveled to Peru from February 14-27 as part of a partnership trip to USIL University,...
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Change of leadership in the Global Ethic Research Group Finance & Economics: New heads, new topics!

The renowned “Global Ethics Research Group on Finance and Economics” is reinventing itself in 2023. The previous chairmen Dr....
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Ulrich Hemel receives honorary doctorate

On February 17, 2023, a ceremony was held at the Universidad de San Ignacio de Loyola in honor of...
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Karl Schlecht Foundation “Science Foundation of the Year 2023

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The German Supply Chain Act is here – now what?

On January 12, Dr. Hannes Kuch, a Fellow of the Global Ethic Institute, was a guest at our “Exploration...
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Sources of Hope – Our new annual Theme

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