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November 15, 2024

Residual material or resource? How waste becomes valuable raw materials

The exhibition ‘Circular Materials - raw material or waste material?’ at the Architekturhaus Salzburg focuses on the great potential of natural resources. Specific examples show how the ‘material cycle’ can be closed and sustainable production made possible. The exhibition by the Department of…

October 28, 2024

Presentation of the Citizen Science Awards 2024

The "Humane PapilloWAS?" project took part in this year's Citizen Science Award: the awards for the best research contributions in the project were presented to 3 school classes from all over Austria at the Young Science Congress on 24 October in Vienna.

October 17, 2024

How tree bark extracts support the healing of diseases: New episode of the podcast "Health Talk"

Since June 2024, the podcast "Health Talk" has been featuring current health topics from research and society in conversations with researchers and students from the Department of Health Sciences, as well as other experts and affected individuals. A new episode is now online.

September 16, 2024

Wood research: Habilitation of Eugenia Mariana Tudor

Eugenia Mariana Tudor from the Department of Design and Green Engineering (Wood Technology & Timber Construction/Economics) successfully defended her habilitation thesis on lignocellulosic materials at Transilvania University in Brasov, Romania, in April 2024. Eugenia Maria Tudor is a graduate of…

September 16, 2024

Podcast "Health Talk": REALISE

Since June 2024, the podcast "Health Talk" has been featuring current health topics from research and society in conversations with researchers and students from the Department of Health Sciences, as well as other experts and affected individuals. A new episode is now online.

August 28, 2024

NETTLE: In search of Alchemilla alpina

As part of the NETTLE project, the two researchers Anja and Sabrina had the opportunity to collect Alchemilla alpina on 30th of July in collaboration with the TEH (Traditional European Medicine) naturwerke in Unken in Salzburg's Pinzgau region. The aim of the project is to analyse the collected…

July 09, 2024

NETTLE: From Mountain Meadows to the Laboratory - Collecting Alpine Plants for Research

What could be more beautiful than collecting the alpine plants that are needed for the extraction in the research project directly from nature? Of course, you first need to know where these plant species grow in sufficient quantities. The best contact point in Salzburg for this is the Botanical…

July 02, 2024

Podcast "Health Talk"

Since June 2024, the podcast "Health Talk" has been featuring current health topics from research and society in conversations with researchers and students from the Department of Health Sciences, as well as other experts and affected individuals. Two episodes are already available online.

June 12, 2024

Project NETTLE: In Sissy's witch´s kitchen

A visit to Sissy's research laboratory in Kuchl is a bit like a visit to a witch's kitchen. It smells faintly of a flower meadow and when you approach the equipment, the smells remind you of various herbal teas. The extraction apparatus simmers and bubbles away and, incidentally, extracts with…

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.…