Gabriele Spilker, Professor of Empirical Research Methods at the Department of Political Science at the University of Salzburg, was awarded the Ars Docendi State Prize for excellent teaching at Austrian universities yesterday evening in Vienna. The prize is awarded in five categories each endowed with 7,000 euros. Spilker is the winner in the category “Learning outcomes examination culture and its anchoring in the course”

The computer scientist Sebastian Forster from the Department of Computer Sciences at the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg has received an ERC Starting Grant for his fundamental research in the area of big data algorithms. His project has been funded by the European Research Council – ERC with 1.5 million euros for five years.

The ditact women’s IT-studies 2020 offers IT course exclusively for women from the 1st to 12th September. For the 17th time, courses on many topics such as programming, robotics, but also IT-management and career planning can be attended online and in some cases as a face-to-face course.