Dr. Thomas Berger is this year’s winner of the GÖCH Best Habilitation Research Award of 2017 awarded by the Society of Austrian Chemists (GÖCh) during the occasion of the 17th Austrian Chemistry Days, held 25 – 28 September, 2017, at the University of Salzburg.

On Saturday, 11 November, Rector Heinrich Schmidinger was awarded the Cardinal Innitzer Award 2017 in the category “Geisteswissenschaft”.

ICANN is considered the “government” of the Internet. This NGO ensures that access and retrieval function smoothly and it awards the so-called Top Level Domains. While ICANN has a central position in the worldwide network, it has also been criticized – in particular, consideration of the politics of relevant civil society organization give way to discourse.