A dream of many aspiring and trained biologists worldwide has become reality for Philipp Wenta from the University of Salzburg, who was the only student from an Austrian university who, in 2015, was aboard the famous vessel, theRV Polarstern (Polar Star), for five weeks at sea. The RV Polarstern is the world’s largest research icebreaker . (Maria Mayer, Salzburger Nachrichten 12.3.2016, Bild: SN/JERNEY)

For the technical disciplines of the University of Salzburg a new laboratory building was built in the Itzling district. The groundbreaking ceremony took place in October 2014. Now the building shell is completed.

There is a constant increase in crises, with which the European Union is increasingly overwhelmed: after the financial and economic crisis increases as a result of the refugee situation, solidarity breaks in the EU. Europe must face a major test. The EU’s current crisis conditions and the social consequences are the research of the Salzburger sociologist, Wolfgang Aschauer.