The Department of Business Management (BWL) is a central component of social science research and teaching at the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg. The Department’s research is nationally and internationally visible and aims to create new knowledge relevant to practice at the highest level. The Department’s teaching is characterised by specialist knowledge that enables students to recognise and solve problem areas in the context of business practice.

The EXDIGIT Advisory Board, chaired by Dr. Emile Aarts, Professor and former Rector at Tilburg University (Netherlands), met for the first time to strategically plan and orient the new Faculty of Digital and Analytical Sciences at PLUS. The aim of the meeting was to establish an interdisciplinary research and development platform in forward-looking digital topics.

The Sparkling Science project MAJA – Mathematische Algorithmen für Jedermann Analysiert or Mathematical Algorithms Analysed for Everyone – will start at the Department of Mathematics in autumn 2022. From a total of 168 project applications from all disciplines, MAJA was one of 34 projects to receive funding.