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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 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.

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

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…

November 18, 2021

Salzburg Start-up "sproof" wants to replace DocuSign in Europe

The Salzburg startup sproof.io, a spin-off of the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, was able to win prominent major customers and thousands of private customers shortly after its founding in 2020. The European Super Angels Club and the renowned business angel Michael Repnik have recently…

November 17, 2021

4th International Data Science Conference 2021: Data Science Everywhere

International experts in data science from research and industry presented the latest developments and innovative industrial applications

November 16, 2021

We proudly present: "The FH Startup Ambassadors" at SUAS

Timely identification of interesting ideas, projects and plans with startup potential and the provision of appropriate support are the basis of the work of the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences Start-up Center. For this reason, since the winter semester 2021/22, so-called FH Startup…

November 09, 2021

Graduation: 470 new graduates at the FH Salzburg

371 Bachelor's students, 95 Master's students and 4 course participants successfully completed their studies at the FH Salzburg in autumn 2021. Numerous graduates celebrated their graduation at the graduation ceremonies, which took place from 9 to 11 November at the Urstein Campus in compliance with…

October 11, 2021

Doctoral Programme "doc.hci": People and Technology

How interwoven are people with technologies? Over the next four years, five doctoral students will be investigating this question as part of the doctoral programme "doc.hci: Designing Meaningful Human-Technology Relations" funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF. As a joint undertaking of Paris…

September 15, 2021

4th International Data Science Conference (IDSC21)

The 4th International Data Science Conference (iDSC 2021) brings together researchers, scientists, and business experts to discuss means of establishing new ways of embracing agile approaches within the various domains of Data Science & Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things (IoT), Industry &…

July 12, 2021

"YELP" project among top 3 education projects

Promoting social advancement through business competence - that is the idea behind "YELP - Young Entrepreneur Leadership Program". Last weekend, the project team was able to secure a start-up grant of 200,000 euros through the MEGA Education Foundation. The YELP project was initiated by Nedžad…

June 30, 2021

Showing diversity

Pride Month 2021 is over, but the topic of gender and diversity remains highly topical. Students from the second semester of the Design and Product Management programme approached this broad topic from a special perspective: 10 groups designed T-shirts and worked on topics ranging from sexism,…

April 27, 2021

FH Salzburg: Groundbreaking ceremony for Twin²Sim at the Kuchl Campus

The groundbreaking ceremony for the new multifunctional "Twin²Sim" research building of the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences (FH Salzburg) at the Kuchl campus took place on Tuesday, 27 April, in the presence of LH Wilfried Haslauer, AR Chairman LAbg Hans Scharfetter, AK Director Cornelia…

April 21, 2021

International cooperation expanded: 2 new FH Salzburg courses in Nepal

At the International School of Tourism and Hotel Management (IST) in Kathmandu, Nepal, two new accredited courses of the FH Salzburg have been offered since the summer semester. The local students are trained to become experts in hotel and tourism management.

March 11, 2021

Mars mission and deep space in the (virtual) seminar room

In the summer semester, students at the FH Salzburg will have the unique opportunity to learn from business strategist and data science expert Cindy Chin. As part of a guest professorship, she will hold courses on the topic of "Deep Data in Deep Space". This was made possible through cooperation…

January 28, 2021

FH Salzburg once again a strong partner of the Erasmus+ programme

The Erasmus+ programme continues to develop - and with it the internationality at FH Salzburg. At the beginning of the year, FH Salzburg was once again approved to participate in the Erasmus+ programme for the next seven years. The FH Salzburg convinced with an "excellent application" and as a "good…

January 24, 2021

UNESCO Education Day: Award-winning commercial by FH Salzburg raises awareness for education

With the International Day of Education on 24 January, UNESCO reminds us every year that education is the key to sustainable development. Education is also important to the film students at Salzburg University of Applied Sciences: with a commercial they point out that 262 million children worldwide…