2015 Swiss Prize winners
The Swiss Ambassador with the 2015 Swiss Prize awardees
Essays on the Swiss national anthem and policies by the Swiss Government and their implications for the wider world have taken the top place in this year's Swiss Prize.
The winners were announced at a reception on Tuesday, hosted by the Ambassador of Switzerland His Excellency Mr Marcel Stutz and his wife Mrs Esther Stutz. ANU Vice Chancellor, Professor Ian Young, and ANU Deputy Vice Chancellor, Professor Marnie Hughes-Warrington, were also in attendance.
The Swiss Prize has been awarded since 1998 for students from the ANU School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics studying the three official languages of Switzerland: French, German and Italian. The prize is a longstanding collaboration between the Swiss Embassy in Australia and the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences.
His Excellency Mr Marcel Stutz spoke about language ability as an essential quality of being human. And in his speech, Professor Young reflected on his time in Germany at the Max Planck Institut fur Meteorologie in Hamburg where he cultivated his German language skills.
The winning essays all covered issues to do with Switzerland and its place in the world, from the scientific realm to trade ties.
Award winners
French
1st Isabel Wormald: L’hymne national suisse: devrait-il ressembler plus à la Marseillaise? ('The Swiss National Anthem: Should it be more like the Marseillaise?')
Runner-up David Fang: La Suisse: un pays divisé? ('Switzerland: A divided country?')
German
1st Emily La: Lokale Lösungen zu internationalen Problemen: Schweizer Drogenpolitik ('Local solutions for international problems: Swiss policies on drugs')
2nd Anton Conos: Die Schweiz einen Kopf kürzer machen ('Shortening Switzerland by a head')
3rd Martyna Judd: Wissenschaftskooperation: dafür oder dagegen? ('Scientific cooperation: in favour or against?')
Italian
1st Julian Wright: Le quote imposte sull'immigrazione in Svizzera danneggeranno soltanto le relazioni tra Svizzera ed Europa ('Migration quotas will only ruin relations between Switzerland and Europe')
2nd Pia Cashel: La prosperità economica della Svizzera e l'importanza del suo commercio con l'Europa ('Swiss economic prosperity and the importance of trade between Switzerland and Europe')
3rd Timothy Dalziel: La Svizzera e la Seconda Guerra Mondiale ('Switzerland and WWII')
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