![Portrait photo of Sebastian Forster](https://www.plus.ac.at/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Sebastian-Forster-Portrait-600x400-1.jpg)
Program Committee Memberships
Sebastian Forster is serving on the program committees of ICALP and FOCS this year.
![CIVIS Event](https://www.plus.ac.at/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/DSCF5885_SimonHaigermoser-1993x2000.jpg)
CIVIS Hub4 (Cities – Territories – Mobilities) Council Meeting in Salzburg
The first Hub4 Council Meeting as part of CIVIS 2.0 took place at PLUS from the 1st to the 3rd of February as part of an interdisciplinary and intercultural programme.
![University of Melbourne](https://www.plus.ac.at/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Parkville_-_University_of_Melbourne_Ormond_College_Quadrat.jpg)
New cultural science cooperation with top Australian university
As of January 2023, the Faculty of Cultural Sciences at the PLUS has a framework agreement with the Faculty of Arts at the renowned University of Melbourne (UoM). The UoM appears in the top rankings as Australia’s highest-ranked university and among the world’s top 35 universities. The Department of German Language and Literature has been cooperating with its counterpart at the UoM at departmental level through Erasmus+ since 2017.