The 2nd COVID-19 Higher Education Act states the requirement for compulsory testing at universities. The new regulation came into force on Monday, 26 April. Students without proof of a negative test will not be allowed to take part in courses or examinations held in attendance.

Introducing two newly appointed professors at the PLUS: Ariadna Ripoll Servent is a Professor of Politics at the Salzburg Center of European Union Studies and the Department of Political Science and Sociology. Anke Uhlenwinkel is a lecturer in geography and economics at the Department of Geography and Geology.

Alexander Wagner is an endowed professor of Behavioural Economics and Digitalisation at the Department of Social and Economic Sciences at the University of Salzburg. He also researches and teaches at the Vienna Centre for Experimental Economic Research and the Faculty of Economics at the University of Vienna.