13 athletes from the Olympic Centre Salzburg Rif will compete at the Olympic Games in Beijing 2022. The Olympic Centre is managed in cooperation with the State of Salzburg and the Paris Lodron University. The athletes have received top-quality mentoring thanks to the state’s financial support as well as the PLUS and its Department of Sport Science and Kinesiology’s know-how and infrastructure.

Lifelong learning is of increasing importance for many economies facing structural change and rising labor market dynamics. To foster lifelong and adult learning, many advanced economies have introduced leave programs for educational purposes, including Austria (the so-called “Bildungskarenz”). Several reforms have made the Austrian educational leave program one of the most generous and expensive educational leave programs among all OECD countries (OECD 2019).

Covid developments and next steps for studying at the PLUS from March: a message from the Vice Rector for Academic Affairs, Martin Weichbold, and the chairing team of the Students’ Union, Laura Reppmann, Lara Simonitsch and Manuel Gruber.