New building for Lucerne University of Music approved
The Concordat Council of the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts gives the green light for the new school building of the Department of Music.
The Department of Music is currently spread across four locations in the city of Lucerne. Space is at a premium. The new school building will cost around 78 million francs. The new building is being financed on the basis of a private investor model. The school is scheduled to move in in summer 2017.
The approval of the building project coincides with the introduction of the new legal basis of the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. According to this, the Department of Music, like all other departments of the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, will be supported by the six Central Swiss cantons of Lucerne, Uri, Schwyz, Obwalden, Nidwalden and Zug from January 1, 2013.
The Lucerne University of Music Foundation, the previous sponsor of the Department of Music and in this function responsible for the infrastructure, will be transferred to a funding foundation. Under the new legal basis, the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts and the Canton of Lucerne, as the canton in which it is located, will have joint responsibility for infrastructure planning.
