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November 29, 2024

Research at FH Salzburg: Retail in transition

New technologies as enablers for the future of stationary retail - this is the focus of the FH Salzburg research project Retailisation 4.0, which bundles knowledge from the specialist areas of the Departments of Business and Tourism and Information Technologies and Digitalisation in order to…

June 06, 2024

FH Salzburg presents new research strategy

With a new strategy for research, technology, and innovation (RTI), Salzburg University of Applied Sciences (FH Salzburg) is laying a solid foundation for top-tier practical research. Interdisciplinary collaboration and internationalisation add value to science, business partners and education.…

May 31, 2024

Marvel and Discover: That was the ‘Long Night of Research’ 2024

The Long Night of Research (LNF), the largest research event in Austria, took place again on 24 May 2024.

May 28, 2024

Circular economy against food waste: ‘CEFoodCycle’ award presented

According to a study by the United Nations, more than one billion tonnes of food ends up as waste worldwide every year. That is almost a fifth of global production. This is where the EU project Interreg Alpine Space "CEFoodCycle", led by the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, comes in. The…

January 23, 2024

Kick-off for the Interreg project Resilient Tourism

The successful kick-off of the Interreg project Resilient Tourism took place in mid-January. 30 partners from tourism associations, businesses and schools from the regions of Bavaria, Salzburg and Tyrol came together for the kick-off meeting and were motivated to pull together.

January 16, 2024

Submit now: CEFoodCycle Award

The Interreg research project CEFoodCycle honours companies, initiatives or individuals who are actively committed to reducing food waste and are planning or have already implemented innovative concepts for the circular economy. The deadline for submissions is the end of March.

October 09, 2023

Viktoria Müllner receives Dr. Maria Schaumayer Prize

Viktoria Müllner, a Master's graduate from Salzburg University of Applied Sciences and researcher in the Retailization 4.0 research project, was awarded the prestigious Dr. Maria Schaumayer Prize for her Master's thesis entitled "Digitalization of stationary retail: risk or opportunity?". The aim of…

February 13, 2023

Using artificial intelligence to optimise circular economy

Kick-off for the interdisciplinary project "CEFoodcycle": researchers from Salzburg University of Applied Sciences and the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg (PLUS) are developing a digital platform to introduce food cycles.

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

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…

January 22, 2020

New: Certificate course in digital communication and leadership

The digital revolution reaches far into society and forces the economy to react quickly and competently. Especially in the area of communication and leadership, new challenges arise in the digital area. In order to close this gap in the need for digital communication experts at management level, the…