Missions de la Fondation

``My residency at the Brocher Foundation combined an exceptional environment, a remarkable intellectual community and time away from usual work pressures. The result was my most productive month in decades. For all of these, I will be eternally grateful.``

``Thank you to the Brocher Foundation and particularly to members of the Scientific Committee and to the outstanding staff providing support on site. This stay provided the perfect conditions to foster academic thinking and to advance scholarly collaborations. My co-researcher and I benefited by the excellent supports provided to develop a new theoretical framework to organize progress in our field, and by the establishment of a range of new collaborations and networks through the facilitated in-person meetings with concurrent Brocher researchers and a range of WHO leaders. This was an outstanding experience which I would highly recommend to academic health, ethics, and equity researchers everywhere.``

``What I valued most about my July 2023 Brocher residency was the space to reflect and focus in depth on multiple aspects of my research (including also horizon-scanning future trajectories of intellectual enquiry), away from the daily pressures of my other academic commitments, in peaceful and stunning surroundings, with excellent staff and facilities. Many thanks.``

``The most valuable parts of my 1-month residency were 1) networking and exchanging ideas with other researchers and 2) having uninterrupted time that I could dedicate to my work. Both of these were incredibly helpful and very welcome!``

``At a time when we can hardly afford reducing bioethics to human health care ethics, the Fondation Brocher provided me with the opportunity to contribute to the restoration of bioethics``

``The residency provided the perfect balance between solitude and community: solitude to write and community with a wonderful group of people to discuss ideas``

``My PhD thesis was greatly enriched by the ease of living, peace of mind, and intellectual community I found at the Brocher Foundation``

``What I found really valuable in my residency at Brocher? The whole experience was perfect for me- the total peace and quiet and beauty of the surroundings plus time to focus on just one project for a change!``

``For me Brocher is a place where everything from the rooms, food and attentive staff is aimed to give the residents lots of time and inspiration to reflect, and the many magical corners in the residency (the benches overlooking the lake, the living-room, the balconies..) enabled informal meetings where we exchanged ideas with scholars from various backgrounds and disciplines.``

``I shall always look back at the my residency stay with fondness; the people, the interaction and the atmosphere which was ideal for reflection, re-imagining and rediscovery of some of the ethical challenges in clinical care``

``I consider my stay at the Brocher Foundation to have been extremely precious as I was able to benefit from collaborating with research colleagues from the best universities all over the world.``

``Chief among the many delights of my Brocher residency -- including the time for unhurried reading, reflection, and writing, the walks along the lake and through meadows and forest, the attractive and comfortable accommodations, and of course the splendid setting -- was the exceptionally congenial atmosphere. I expect that the close intellectual and personal relationships forged with other researchers will prove to be the most valuable outcome of a truly memorable stay.``

``The freedom to write & intellectual stimulation from my cohort-mates working in different areas!``

``The stay at Brocher ended up with a breakthrough in my PhD thesis in a way I haven’t even imagined``

``My stay at Brocher Foundation in Feb 2019 was a refreshing retreat to my brain and soul. After intense field work in India, it gave me necessary distance and quiet to dive deeper into data and to start making sense of it. I was surrounded by 10 brilliant researchers from around the world who became friends, mentors, confidants and more. I am glad that I have this circle of researchers around me thanks to Brocher Foundation.``

````Staying at Brocher gives scientists with their various obligations in the field the rare opportunity to solely focus on a topic or a project and to get together and discuss arising issues with other scientists from different cultural and professional backgrounds at a unique and peaceful place.````

````The staff at Brocher are awesome ! -how is that? Or maybe -The beautiful environment and support from staff and fellow researchers provided a wonderful space to think and write without distraction, loved Brocher````

``I am most grateful to Fondation Brocher for providing me with such wonderful premises and settings together with the stimulating company of other researchers. Having the opportunity to concentrate on my research for an extended period was extremely helpful``

````Brocher gave me time to think, the chance to exchange ideas, to learn from others, and to teach. Best of all, it gave me long, delicious hours of time to write. ````

``The Brocher Foundation: to have more time for open and fruitful discussions, Exchange ideas, discover different perspectives``

``During my stay at Brocher I was able to engage with researchers from other health-related ELSI disciplines over the course of months and in a much deeper way than is usually possible, allowing a kind of cross-disciplinary discussion I hadn't experienced before, but found incredibly valuable.``

``The scholarly community and protected time found at Brocher is a unique and precious thing supporting both deep thinking and the strength the global network of scholars working on these important questions``

``The Fondation Brocher is a sanctuary of inspiration for researchers. The monastic environment fosters for deep reflection and is conducive for the improbable marriage of minds discussion. Fondation Brocher is a gem for all reaserchers minds in search of a writing haven.``

``Brocher provides an extraordinary and unique location for interdisciplinary dialogue, reflection, writing and consensus building in key areas of ethics. At a time of major moral global challenges, Brocher is, quite simply, an invaluable global asset.``

``For those who understand and appreciate the value of multidisciplinary approaches to bioethics and health law, there is no better place to meet like-minded scholars interested in careful, clear thinking about today’s most pressing challenges``

``By a magnificent combination of serenity and hospitality, The Brocher foundation leaves you no option but to read, reflect, write, and have pleasant conversations with the great scholars you meet there.``

``Working while in Brocher is like being on top of the world. You have all what you need to make you move fast with your job and in a most professional manner. Being relaxed, well taken care of and surrounded by a large number of experts from all around the globe is what you find there. You only realize how nicely you were pampered, when you go back to reality``

``The Brocher Foundation is an ideal place to enjoy long stretches of relaxing time for work and meeting colleagues from around the world. In my two stays on the shores of Lac Léman, I researched and wrote two long articles while finding time to socialize and explore the environs.``

``Over the last decade, I was fortunate to participate in two Fondation Brocher residencies and organized a Brocher Symposium, and I have greatly benefited from the scholarly and collegial intellectual exchanges and networking. Brocher also gave me the valuable opportunity to connect with the WHO, following which I was invited to lead a major WHO-sponsored study on reproductive health policy implementation in Ireland.``

``One of the most valuable parts of the residency is the opportunity to be free from other obligations, to think deeply and broadly about one’s project, interspersed with the serendipitous encounter of new sources and new methods from casual conversations with fascinating colleagues—one never knows where one’s next footnote will come from—all in the most beautiful and restful of locations.``

``The most valuable aspect of my residency was the protected time to think and write in a supportive, intellectually stimulating, and beautiful environment``

``La Fondation Brocher est un merveilleux endroit, au bord du Lac de Genève, et une très utile institution, au coeur de l'Europe : on y comprend mieux qu'ailleurs à quel point la santé est aussi un enjeu politique.``

``L'éthique du soin est un processus d'élaboration permanent, nourri par l'expérience de toutes et tous, dans la réalité comme dans la fiction. La Fondation Brocher offre aux chercheuses et chercheurs en éthique un lieu de réflexion et de partage. Je suis heureux et honoré qu'elle ait décidé d'ouvrir ce lieu à la littérature.``