Committee City Programme

The members of the Committee City Programme are also members of the steering group of the Compassionate City Bern, called «Bärn treit». These are Claudia Zürcher, Claudia Michel, Michael Kirschner, Pascal Mösli, Annette Berger. More information will follow soon.

Claudia Michel

Claudia Michel, born in 1971, holds a doctorate in social geography. She taught and researched in the field of sustainable development at the University of Bern and has been a lecturer at the Institute of Ageing at the Bern University of Applied Sciences since 2014. She teaches interprofessional project work, researchers social support in the last phase of life and develops tools for working with the elderly in communal social spaces together with practice partners. She enjoys experimenting with forms of knowledge transfer between research and practice. In the past, she has written policy briefs, produced an exhibition and a film.

Claudia Zürcher

Claudia Zürcher-Künzi is the managing director of palliative bern, the cantonal section of the national association for palliative care. Before, she managed a four-star superior hotel for 12 years and was responsible for the funding of the city theater Bern (Bühnen Bern) during 9 years. She is loooking forward to building bridges between professionals and the population of Berne and specifically to launch the festival activities that will take place in the city during the conference week – together with fellow campaigners of the Compassionate City Bern “Bärn treit”.