Thanks to a generous legacy on the part of Herrn Kurt Zopf, the University of Salzburg is endowing the €10,000.00 Kurt Zopf Prize for habilitated members of organizational units of the University, which include the fields of Humanities, Cultural and / or Social Sciences, Law or Theology.

The former Federal Minister for Sustainability and Tourism, Elisabeth Köstinger, recently awarded the Josef Ressel Forstpreis to University Professor Roman Türk.

Dr. Johannes Österreicher, Scientist at the LKR Leichtmetallkompetenzzentrum Ranshofen wins first prize in the PhD competition 2019 of the International Society for Stereology and Image Analysis (ISSIA). This prize is awarded every two years and honors the best dissertation in the field of stereology and image analysis. Stereology is the spatial interpretation of sections.