#team-of-the-month
In early December 2020, the largest project for expanding WU’s premises since the move to the new campus in 2013 came to a successful close. This intense 2-year project started with an analysis of how...
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Universities are required to set up a new cost-performance accounting system: The Austrian government passed a new ordinance on cost-performance accounting at universities that entered into effect on January 1, 2017. The main objective of...
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29.09.2020
Team of the month 09/20: The Teams Team
Wednesday, March 11, 2020 – 2 days before the start of the lockdown: Students have already become familiar with distance learning, and it is becoming clear that most employees will soon be working from home....
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The process of digital transformation has now brought about major changes in one of WU’s most important information events – and it was our June 2020 Team of the Month that successfully organized and implemented...
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Ensuring the right balance between family/private life on the one hand and professional responsibilities or academic studies on the other is an important priority for universities, but it can also be a major challenge. As...
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28.02.2020
Team of the Month 02/2020: Admissions Team
Starting work at 6:00am, walking 20 km in one day, and working for 10 hours straight: this isn’t a hospital shift we’re talking about, but WU’s entrance exam days for the bachelor’s programs, which were...
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10,000 guests, live performances by internationally famous musicians, and an enthusiastic crowd that kept the party going until the wee hours of the morning – that was the 4th edition of the WU Summer Celebration....
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18.06.2019
Team of the Month 06/19: Digitization of the Kurt W. Rothschild and Josef Steindl estate collections
In 2014, Wilfried Altzinger and Alois Guger, the heirs to the estates of two of Austria’s most renowned economists, Kurt W. Rothschild and Josef Steindl, gave WU the economists’ estate collections as a gift. Over...
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The work of Kathleen Knaus and Benjamin Schmid gives WU a clear and consistent voice in English. This ensures that we all understand each other at WU, and it also creates an important part of...
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On October 9, 2018, WU had the honor of welcoming the president of the Republic of Austria, Alexander Van der Bellen, the president of the Federal Republic of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, and the president of...
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The Universities Act 2002 requires all 22 public universities in Austria to conclude three-year Performance Agreements with the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research. The universities’ targets and budgetary framework are then based on...
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