University of Applied Sciences Board

The Board of the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences performs all tasks of the current University of Applied Sciences Studies Act (FHG), and ensures the autonomy of the university. The Rectorate (Rector and Vice Rector) is responsible for the overall management.

Members of the Board

Chairperson
Dominik Engel, Rector

Deputy Chairperson
Günther Grall, Vice Rector

Heads of the Degree Programmes (main member / substitute member)
Martin Lu Kolbinger /  Ruth Resch - Department Angewandte Sozialwissenschaften
Hilmar Linder / Josef Schinwald - Department Creative Technologies
Stefan Netsch / Alexander Petutschnigg - Department Design and Green Engineering
Geja Oostingh / Katharina Radak-Scherer - Department Gesundheitswissenschaften
Martina Sageder / Eva Brucker - Department Business & Tourism
Stefan Wegenkittl / Sascha Frohwerk - Department Information Technologies and Digitalisation

Teaching and research staff (main member / substitute member)
Daniela Molzbichler - Department Angewandte Sozialwissenschaften
Mario Jooss / Ingrid Hovdar-Stojakovic - Department Business & Tourism
Brigitte Jellinek / Julia Schwarzacher - Department Creative Technologies
Alina Meindl / Elisabeth Dürnberger - Department Design and Green Engineering
Melanie Roth / Roland Joachimbauer - Department Gesundheitswissenschaften
Julia Schwarzer / Dejan Radovanovic - Department Information Technologies and Digitalisation

Student representatives
Rosemarie Haider, Realtime Art & Visual Effects (Master)
Vsevolod Nadeikin, Innovation & Management in Tourism (Bachelor)
René Schütz, AI for Sustainable Technologies (Master)
Ferdinand Vennemann, MultiMediaArt (Bachelor) / Business Management (Bachelor)
Substitute member: Felix Beer, MultiMediaTechnology (Bachelor); Joshua Markus Fischer, Forest Products Technology & Timber Constructions (Bachelor); Andrea Gasperlmair, MultiMediaArt (Bachelor/Master); Melanie Günther, Business Management (Master); Miriam Herbst, Biomedical Sciences (Bachelor);  Janette Christin Kaspar, Industrial Informatics and Robotics (Master); Dominik Lohner, Informationstechnik & System-Management (Bachelor) / AI for Sustainable Technologies (Master)

Last Update: 10.09.2025

Rules of Procedure and Statute

Acc. to § 10 Abs. 3 Z 10 FHG, one of the tasks of the University of Applied Sciences Board shall be to adopt rules of procedure and a statute in consultation with the provider.

Furthermore, the statute shall, as a minimum, include the curriculum and examination regulations, rules for the election of the Board, the establishment of working groups, if any, and their statutes,  regulations with regard to presence quorums of the Board, an equal opportunities plan, regulations with regard to the establishment and discontinuation of study programmes and continuing higher education programmes,  guidelines for the appropriate use of designations as customary in the university system and for the award of academic honours as well as guidelines to ensure integrity in academic and artistic study, teaching and research activities and good academic and artistic practice in all areas of performance.

The statute shall be published in a suitable format. Also, the University Entrance Qualification Examination (§ 5 FHG) shall be regulated in the statute.

Documents are available in German only.

Complaints committee

Against decisions of the Head of the Degree Progamme, students and applicants shall have the right to lodge a complaint with the University of Applied Sciences Board (acc. to § 10 para 6 FHG).

Complaints can be lodged personally. The chairperson of the University of Applied Sciences Board is the contact person:  rektorat@fh-salzburg.ac.at

The University of Applied Sciences Board can establish a complaints committee, which will process the complaint against decisions of the Head of the Degree Progamme.