Reinhard Heinisch received the 2017 Science Award from the Margaretha Lupac Foundation. The Foundation for Parliamentarism and Democracy, which has been set up at the National Council, has been awarding a Democracy Prize and a Science Prize each year since 2004. The award was presented on Monday evening in Vienna.

For the study, “Public Relations and Education Communication: Is Creativity the Opposite of Knowledge? Effects of Knowledge Transfer on the Mediation of Creativity. An Austrian Empirical Study Comparing Three Education Types”, Astrid Spatzier (IFFB Sport- und Bewegungswissenschaft) and Jessica Breu (Master Graduate KoWi) received the Best Paper Award 2017.

Five new professors were appointed to the University of Salzburg in the winter semester 2017/18: Christoph Kühberger, History; Reinhard Klaushofer and Andras Jakab, both Public Law; John Dunlop, Chemistry and Materials Physics; and Kyoko Shinozaki, Political Science and Sociology. The two well-deserved retired professors, Wolfgang Schuhmacher and Harald Stolzlechner, retired on 30 September, 2017.