Lisa Windsteiger, Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics at the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg since mid-April, talks about wealth inequality and inheritance tax in a TV documentary on wealth distribution and fairness in Germany (from around minute 8:40). Tune in!

Application Deadline: 28 June 2023: SCEUS invites applications from interested students who will contribute with their PhD projects to the topic “Challenges of European Integration”. We invite applicants with research interests in (1) political science, (2) law, or (3) economics and willing to engage and cooperate with the other disciplines.

In our transdisciplinary project “AlpLakeChange”, funded by the Austrian Academy of Science, we examine changing biodiversity in high alpine lakes in the National Park Hohe Tauern, as a consequence of anthropogenic climate change. We analyze the interplay of ecological, geo(morpho)logical and societal factors.