History of enterprises and industries

A teaching programme

Since 2016, the « History of Enterprises and Industries» programme, set-up within the Department of Contemporary History at the University of Fribourg, has led to the following achievements:

• Bachelor's and Master's courses in a variety of fields, ranging from the historical method in working with entreprises archives to the history of watchmaking, the history of Swiss entreprises in Asia, etc.
• Organising six themed public mini-colloques on the history of entreprises, with the participation of students, guest professors and lecturers from various European universities.
• Establishment of a cooperation agreement between the universities of Fribourg and Osaka in the field of contemporary history, enabling Master's level students to spend one or two semesters at one or other of the partner universities.
• Six days of documentary studies in the archives of the Longines entreprise and CEJARE, as part of the Bachelor's course devoted to entreprise archives and their processing.

For the period 2024 - 2027
The University of Fribourg is looking for donors interested in supporting this teaching programme.

Thanks to your support

• Development of interesting and promising topics for the Department of Contemporary History at the University of Fribourg to offer our students.
• The students from the University of Fribourg benefit from a study opportunity for one or two semesters in Osaka.

The University of Fribourg Foundation is committed to

• Giving donors excellent visibility.
• Providing an annual report at the end of the academic year.