Researchers at the PLUS have successfully identified aerosol transmission as an independent risk factor for severe course of disease.

Matthias Pleschinger, who is only 14 years old and studies Computer Science as a non-degree seeking student at the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, was able to achieve 126th place out of 350 participants. The first 170 places received awards classified into gold, silver and bronze medals.

The EU has been debating the topic of media ownership concentration since the first Green Paper in 1992. Thirty years later, the EU Commission is ready to tackle it again: it is commissioning a monitoring system to assess the economic, political-regulatory and technical risks of media concentration and to back it up with data from member countries.