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May 27, 2022

An encourager who shows how it can be done

Opportunities that arise often come at the worst possible time, Barbara Fahrner once heard from a supervisor. He encouraged her to seize a professional opportunity that presented itself. Today she is a department head at Raiffeisen Salzburg, a mother of two boys and an encourager for other women to…

May 27, 2022

Students succeed in international creative competitions

This year's month of May will remain unforgettable for some students of the FH Salzburg MultiMedia degree programmes. With works from the fields of communication design, film, animation and computer games, they triggered a veritable shower of prizes at several nationally and internationally…

May 23, 2022

Long Night of Research: Over 5,500 curious people discovered Salzburg's research

On 20 May 2022, after a long break, it was once again time to stay awake and be curious! Around 500 Salzburg researchers from local research institutions and companies answered all questions for one night and offered plenty of aha experiences for children and adults. A total of 116 research stations…

May 19, 2022

Top place for Wood Technology & Timber Construction degree programme in CHE ranking

The CHE ranking is considered the most comprehensive evaluation procedure for degree programmes in the German-speaking world. The new ranking for the Bachelor's degree programmes has now been presented and shows the outstanding quality of education in the Wood Technology & Timber Construction degree…

March 18, 2022

From studying at the FH Salzburg into practice and back again

Nicole Kreuzberger has been working in the neurosurgical intensive care unit at the Christian Doppler Clinic for 7 years. Since February 2022, she has also been a senior lecturer at the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences. However, she has not only known the UAS for a short time: the Bachelor's…

March 08, 2022

After a three-year break: New Fulbright Professor in the Business Management Program

We are pleased to welcome Earl McKinney from Bowling Green State University as a Fulbright Professor at FH Salzburg. Our new colleague from Ohio will spend the summer semester 2022 at the Business Management Program at FH Salzburg.

March 02, 2022

Half a lifetime FH Salzburg

Student, colleague, graduate, lecturer, employer: at 21 of 43, Verena Petro has spent almost half her life at the FH Salzburg. As a manager at Salzburg AG, she relies on colleagues with a sound technical education from the FH. What connects Verena Petro with the Salzburg University of Applied…

February 17, 2022

People-centred brand strategies and meaningful designs

Anneli Eddy studied in the USA, Sweden and Spain before the native Californian moved to Salzburg, where she completed a Master's degree in Design & Product Management. Now she works in the Brand Strategy Team at the design agency KISKA and researches with users around the world to develop…

February 10, 2022

New publication on data science in tourism

After two years of planning and 18 months of intensive writing and editing, the new book "Applied Data Science in Tourism: Interdisciplinary Methodologies, Approaches, and Applications" was published this week by Springer. The 650-page work is the 19th and most comprehensive book project to date by…

February 10, 2022

Alpine museums bring AR into your living room with 'Project SMART'

Augmented Reality Experiences in Museums

February 09, 2022

Reduced shapes - increased creativity

MultiMediaArt graduate, independent illustrators, friends. That describes the creative duo Birgit Palma and Daniel Triendl. The two FH Salzburg graduates have jointly designed the first issue of the magazine "warum!" for their "alma mater".

January 26, 2022

TourBERT: A language model for the tourism industry

BERT is the most powerful language model, developed by Google, used in the field of Natural Language Processing. In recent years, several domain-specific "BERT" models have been developed, for example BioBERT, ClinicalBERT or FinBERT, in order to better meet the requirements of the individual…

January 24, 2022

#karrierewege: Career paths made by FH Salzburg

24 January is International Education Day. We take this day as an opportunity to spotlight our alumni, because many exciting careers of our graduates also started with education. The new campaign #karrierewege is intended to inspire and show the different opportunities that a degree from FH…

January 17, 2022

With an idea from university to business entrepreneur

Together with two friends, Gerald Eder founded the start-up 'solbytech', which specialises on communication solutions for decentralised energy systems. The idea was triggered by a gap in the market that the student identified during his Master's studies at the FH Salzburg.

January 12, 2022

Tourism Manager in Bad Gastein

"I've always been a tourism kid," Lisa Loferer laughs when talking about her remarkable career path after graduating from Salzburg University of Applied Sciences. She picked up her love of tourism early on through her father's hotel in Zell am See. Her personal tourism career path led her via the…

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