What will I learn?
Food-Movement-Health are topics and discourses of our time that have to be constantly negotiated anew against the background of global upheavals in everyday life. Within the framework of this innovative degree programme, you will acquire knowledge about the bio-psycho-social interrelationships of nutrition, exercise and health, about motivational and health psychological concepts of health behavior, about the contribution of culture to nutrition, physical activity and health promotion, as well as about the effects of poverty, inequality and gender on nutrition, physical activity and health. In order to be able to accompany the transfer of knowledge in society, the basics of public relations and media work for the dissemination of relevant evidence-based guidelines are acquired. Best practice examples of behavioral self-regulation for healthy nutrition and exercise with the help of the use of innovative information and communication technologies as well as artificial intelligence are taught. With the Bachelor’s degree programme FMH, the qualification is therefore acquired to be able to develop projects in the context of FMH independently on the pulse of time and to implement them in a leading function.

What makes Salzburg so special as a place to study?
The interdisciplinary orientation of the Bachelor’s programme Food-Movement-Health is unique – not only – in Austria. The excellence in research and teaching of Salzburg as a university location is bundled in this study programme, which is a Bachelor’s degree programme of the Faculty of Natural and Life Sciences, newly founded in 2021, and part of the science initiative of the state of Salzburg. In the immediate vicinity of other university institutions, public and private health care providers as well as innovative companies in the health, food and sports sectors, there are a large number of internships as well as connection opportunities for Master’s degree programmes and interesting newly emerging professional fields in the region of Salzburg and beyond. In Salzburg, you study in the middle of a cultural metropolis that brings people from all over the world together in a breathtaking natural setting.

Which career opportunities do I have?
Against the backdrop of socio-demographic change and the associated challenges for the health care system, as a graduate of the Bachelor’s degree programme Food-Movement-Health you will work as a so-called "change agent". You accompany and control processes at interfaces in the health care system to guide individuals or target groups in seeking out health services and in adopting a health-enhancing lifestyle. You actively contribute to current social and health policy discourses and actively shape the transfer of knowledge to and for society. A variety of careers in the public and private sector are open to you, such as: • Policy developer for special target groups • Prevention manager at the municipal level • Cultural journalist for nutrition, physical activity and health • Health officer in the public health sector • Event manager in the health sector and in tourism • Lifestyle consultant

Univ.-Prof. Mag. DDr. Susanne Ring-Dimitriou
Chair of the Bachelor’s Degree Program FMH Food-Movement-Health

Rifer Schlossallee 49, 5400 Hallein Rif

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