On 30 May in Salzburg, Alain Favey, CEO of Porsche Holding Salzburg, Professor Dr. Heinrich Schmidinger, Rector of the University of Salzburg, and Professor Dr. Manfred Tscheligi, Director of the Center for Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), signed a cooperation agreement.

With the attendance of award-winning young scientists, an extensive program took place on 2 June, as the first NaWi Science Day came to an end. This new event of the Faculty of Natural Sciences puts world-class research at the center and places the focus on comprehensibility; that is to say, Open Science.

A few days after the protests began at the Kiev Maida in early December 2013, the infamous Russian TV presenter, Dmitry Kiselyov, was awarded a symbolic Oscar for “nonsense and lies.” From the beginning, the media played a very important role in the still simmering conflict between Russia and Ukraine.