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February 13, 2023

Using artificial intelligence to optimise circular economy

Kick-off for the interdisciplinary project "CEFoodcycle": researchers from Salzburg University of Applied Sciences and the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg (PLUS) are developing a digital platform to introduce food cycles.

December 09, 2022

Tourism graduate wins 2022 Pride Biz research award

Josue Steele, a graduate of the Innovation & Management in Tourism master's program, was awarded the Pride Biz Austria 2022 Best Paper Award for his thesis. Pride Biz Austria, the association for promoting the inclusion of sexual diversity in business and the workplace, awards academic papers on…

October 10, 2022

More than 80 incoming students from 34 countries welcomed at the FH Salzburg

A total of 83 students from 34 different countries will spend the current semester at the FH Salzburg. 4 more have extended their stay at the FH Salzburg. However, Salzburg students are also taking advantage of the opportunity for international mobility: 76 students of the UAS will spend the winter…

October 10, 2022

Excellence research at the new Josef Ressel Research Centre

The Josef Ressel Centre for Intelligent and Safe Industrial Automation (ISIA) will begin operations at the FH Salzburg in July 2022. Experts from science and industry gathered at the FH Salzburg for the ceremony and symposium on 10 October. The keynote was held by Wittgenstein Prize winner Herbert…

September 13, 2022

Can learning success be predicted?

Data experts Simon Ginzinger and Earl McKinney asked themselves this question and developed a predictive model.

September 01, 2022

Dominik Engel starts as the new managing director of the FH Salzburg

At the end of June, Dominik Engel was introduced as the new managing director of the FH Salzburg. With the start of the new academic year - on 1 September - he now takes office.

June 20, 2022

New research building 'Twin²Sim' officially opened on Kuchl Campus

Multifunctional experimental building, laboratory, research project, workplace. In the presence of Governor Wilfried Haslauer and numerous guests of honour from politics and business, the new research building Twin²Sim was opened at the Kuchl Campus of the FH Salzburg on 20 June 2022. Twin²Sim…

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 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…