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August 17, 2022

Sustainability as creative focus

Magnus Fischer knew early on that he wanted to become a designer. After studying Design & Product Management at FH Salzburg, he managed to combine creativity, social relevance and economic success.

August 15, 2022

An effective job

Anja Sommeregger studied MultiMediaArt and lives her passion for 3D graphics and visual effects. After years as a VFX artist in the English games industry, she now works remotely for a Viennese games studio.

June 20, 2022

New research building 'Twin²Sim' officially opened on Kuchl Campus

Multifunctional experimental building, laboratory, research project, workplace. In the presence of Governor Wilfried Haslauer and numerous guests of honour from politics and business, the new research building Twin²Sim was opened at the Kuchl Campus of the FH Salzburg on 20 June 2022. Twin²Sim…

May 27, 2022

An encourager who shows how it can be done

Opportunities that arise often come at the worst possible time, Barbara Fahrner once heard from a supervisor. He encouraged her to seize a professional opportunity that presented itself. Today she is a department head at Raiffeisen Salzburg, a mother of two boys and an encourager for other women to…

May 27, 2022

Students succeed in international creative competitions

This year's month of May will remain unforgettable for some students of the FH Salzburg MultiMedia degree programmes. With works from the fields of communication design, film, animation and computer games, they triggered a veritable shower of prizes at several nationally and internationally…

May 23, 2022

Long Night of Research: Over 5,500 curious people discovered Salzburg's research

On 20 May 2022, after a long break, it was once again time to stay awake and be curious! Around 500 Salzburg researchers from local research institutions and companies answered all questions for one night and offered plenty of aha experiences for children and adults. A total of 116 research stations…

May 19, 2022

Top place for Wood Technology & Timber Construction degree programme in CHE ranking

The CHE ranking is considered the most comprehensive evaluation procedure for degree programmes in the German-speaking world. The new ranking for the Bachelor's degree programmes has now been presented and shows the outstanding quality of education in the Wood Technology & Timber Construction degree…

March 18, 2022

From studying at the FH Salzburg into practice and back again

Nicole Kreuzberger has been working in the neurosurgical intensive care unit at the Christian Doppler Clinic for 7 years. Since February 2022, she has also been a senior lecturer at the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences. However, she has not only known the UAS for a short time: the Bachelor's…

March 08, 2022

After a three-year break: New Fulbright Professor in the Business Management Program

We are pleased to welcome Earl McKinney from Bowling Green State University as a Fulbright Professor at FH Salzburg. Our new colleague from Ohio will spend the summer semester 2022 at the Business Management Program at FH Salzburg.

March 02, 2022

Half a lifetime FH Salzburg

Student, colleague, graduate, lecturer, employer: at 21 of 43, Verena Petro has spent almost half her life at the FH Salzburg. As a manager at Salzburg AG, she relies on colleagues with a sound technical education from the FH. What connects Verena Petro with the Salzburg University of Applied…

February 17, 2022

People-centred brand strategies and meaningful designs

Anneli Eddy studied in the USA, Sweden and Spain before the native Californian moved to Salzburg, where she completed a Master's degree in Design & Product Management. Now she works in the Brand Strategy Team at the design agency KISKA and researches with users around the world to develop…

February 10, 2022

New publication on data science in tourism

After two years of planning and 18 months of intensive writing and editing, the new book "Applied Data Science in Tourism: Interdisciplinary Methodologies, Approaches, and Applications" was published this week by Springer. The 650-page work is the 19th and most comprehensive book project to date by…

February 10, 2022

Alpine museums bring AR into your living room with 'Project SMART'

Augmented Reality Experiences in Museums

February 09, 2022

Reduced shapes - increased creativity

MultiMediaArt graduate, independent illustrators, friends. That describes the creative duo Birgit Palma and Daniel Triendl. The two FH Salzburg graduates have jointly designed the first issue of the magazine "warum!" for their "alma mater".

January 26, 2022

TourBERT: A language model for the tourism industry

BERT is the most powerful language model, developed by Google, used in the field of Natural Language Processing. In recent years, several domain-specific "BERT" models have been developed, for example BioBERT, ClinicalBERT or FinBERT, in order to better meet the requirements of the individual…