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Applied Business Administration Applied Cultural Studies Applied Foto: Maurer Informatics Business and Law Business Engineering Educational Science English and American Studies Geography German Studies History Information Management Information Technology International Business Administration Media & Communications Science Philosophy Psychology Romance Studies Slavonic Studies Technical Mathematics Applied Business Administration Applied Informatics Applied Cultural Studies Adult and Vocational Education English and American Studies Geography and Regional Research German Studies German Studies in an Intercultural Context History Information and Communications Engineering Information Management Information Technology International Management Media and Convergence Management Media, Communication and Culture Philosophy Psychology Romance Studies School Education Slavonic Studies Social and Human Ecology Social and Integrative Teaching Technical Mathematics Business and Law German English History, Social Studies and Political Education French Italian Slovenian Spanish Geography and Economics Informatics Mathematics Philosophy Social and Economic Sciences Technical Sciences Natural Sciences International PhD degree programme Interactive and Cognitive Environments 4 The Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt 5 Young university, powerful history 7 The Faculty of Humanities 8 The Faculty of Technical Sciences 11 The Faculty of Management and Economics 15 The Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies 16 Centres and institutions 17 The university s employees 18 Studying at the Alpen-Adria-Universität 19 Mobility and internationality 21 Research at the Alpen-Adria-Universität 22 The campus 23 The Lakeside Science & Technology Park
10,000 students & 1,500 members of staff learn, teach and conduct research at the Alpen-Adria-Universität. Foto: Maurer Image by Maurer The Alpen-Adria-Universität A hub for the acquisition, exchange and transfer of knowledge The Alpen-Adria-Universität (AAU) is a young and innovative university, located at the intersection of three diverse cultures. Since it was founded in the year 1970, the AAU has become firmly established as the leading institution of academic education in Carinthia, and serves as an important hub for the acquisition, exchange and transfer of knowledge across the entire Alps-Adriatic Region. The AAU s scientific achievements regularly earn national and international recognition. The projects carried out here serve as important impulse generators for the business location Carinthia. Four faculties with 36 departments More than 10,000 students attend the Alpen-Adria-Universität for the purposes of study and research, including around 1,800 students from abroad. Approximately 1,500 members of staff strive to produce outstanding achievements in the realms of teaching, research and university administration. Work and research is carried out within the AAU s four faculties. In addition, several specialized centres contribute to shaping the university s specific portrait. Intercultural exchange between the Alpine and the Mediterranean culture The Alpen-Adria-Universität is located in Austria s most southern province, in Carinthia s capital city Klagenfurt, which is home to around 100,000 inhabitants. The proximity to Italy and Slovenia results in an atmosphere of intercultural exchange at the intersection between the Alpine and the Mediterranean culture. The AAU addresses this unique opportunity by offering a wide range of cooperation activities, scholarships for research visits abroad, language courses, visiting professorships, summer schools, and exchange programmes. The Adriatic coast can be reached by car in approximately two hours. There are literally no limits to the leisure time possibilities, both during the winter and the summer. At the same time, Klagenfurt is at the centre of a highly diverse European Central Region: The cities of Ljubljana, Graz, Udine, Salzburg, Trieste, Venice, Vienna, and Munich all lie within a radius of 130 to 350 kilometres (by road). Young university, powerful history In 1970, the College of Educational Sciences is founded in Klagenfurt. A mere 3 years later, regular courses of study commence. The college is re-named University of Educational Sciences in 1975. 1979 is the founding year of the Inter-University Research Institute for Distance Learning (since 1991: Institute for Interdisciplinary Research and Continuing Education German abbreviation IFF). The name of the university is changed to Universität Klagenfurt in 1993. At the same time, a Faculty of Humanities and a Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Informatics are inaugurated. In recognition of its manifold activities in the Alps-Adriatic Region, the university adopts the name Alpen- Adria-Universität Klagenfurt in 2004. The Institute for Interdisciplinary Research and Continuing Education (IFF) is established as the university s third faculty. The expansion of Technical Sciences results in the foundation of a separate faculty at the beginning of the year 2007. The Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Informatics is restructured to yield a Faculty of Management and Economics and a Faculty of Technical Sciences. In 2013 the AAU joins the Carinthia University of Applied Sciences and the Carinthian University College of Teacher Education to form the Carinthian University Conference (German abbreviation KHK). Since it was initially founded, the Alpen-Adria-Universität has undergone comprehensive redevelopment and has distinguished itself in the spheres of research and teaching. A display room on campus the Reflectorium, located in the building referred to as the Vorstufengebäude is dedicated to presenting the university s history. The Alpen-Adria-Universität was founded in 1970. It serves as a hub for research and knowledge in the Alps-Adriatic Region. 4,5 x,x
Image by Puch Department of English and American Studies Department of Educational Sciences and Research Department of German Studies Department of Didactics of German Robert Musil Institute for Literary Research/Carinthian Literature Archive Department of History Department for Culture, Literature and Music Department of Media and Communications Science Department of Philosophy Department of Psychology Department of Romance Studies Department of Slavonic Studies Faculty Centre for Sign Language and Communication of the Hearing Impaired (ZGH) The Faculty of Humanities The Faculty of Humanities was established in 1993 and is very well established and connected in the international arena. One of the faculty s distinctive features is the diversity of its discipline-specific and transdisciplinary research activities. It encompasses a broad range of basic subjects in the realm of linguistic, cultural social sciences, and it promotes multilingualism and intercultural education. The faculty has always regarded the heterogeneity of subjects as an opportunity to absorb new impulses and to tackle these collaboratively, transcending the boundaries of the sciences. The transdisciplinary interests and projects of the faculty are expressed in joint research and teaching activities. The faculty s joint spheres of research focus are represented by the areas of visual culture, educational research, migration/multilingualism, identity/alterity, medieval research, and cultural science/cultural studies. In its teaching activities, the faculty places emphasis on the qualified interdisciplinary nature of the degree programmes, which is further enhanced by extension curricula. The faculty strongly supports the ongoing lively scientific exchange within the Alps-Adriatic Region. For instance, the Master s degree programme German Studies in an Intercultural Context is a double degree programme offered in collaboration with the University of Udine. 6,7 The departments cover a heterogeneous spectrum of basic disciplines in the human sciences.
Department of Applied Informatics Institute Department of Applied of Informatics Informatics Systems Institute Department of Informatics of Informatics Systems Didactics Institute Department of Information of Information Technology Technology Institute Department of Smart of Smart System System Technologies Technologies Institute Department of Mathematics of Mathematics Institute Department of Statistics of Mathematics Education Institute Department of Networked of Statistics and Embedded Systems Department of Networked and Embedded Systems The Faculty of Technical Sciences The Faculty of Technical Sciences was founded in 2007. Today it is comprised of nine departments. The supervision conditions at the Faculty of Technical Sciences which are excellent compared to other universities facilitate a continuous and constructive exchange between teaching staff and students at all levels. Pursuing excellence in research and teaching, it is one of the declared objectives of the faculty to provide the necessary foundations to promote the start-up of successful new businesses, to attract existing companies to this location, and to ensure that established businesses expand the number of jobs in the region. In terms of research, the Faculty of Technical Sciences has developed notable areas of expertise in recent years: Networked and Autonomous Systems, Modeling, Simulation, and Optimization of Complex Systems, Engineering of Software, Data, and Knowledge-based Systems and Multimedia Systems. These core areas are application-oriented and well established in the international research landscape. A further special feature is the research institute Lakeside Labs GmbH, which focuses on the issue of selforganizing networked systems within the sphere of information and communication technology, and works in close cooperation with the corresponding AAU institutes. Outstanding research results and the focus on core areas of expertise make the faculty especially attractive to highly qualified students. Together with four European universities, the AAU has co-founded the Doctoral School Interactive und Cognitive Environments (ICE). The ICE Doctoral School is financed by the European Erasmus Mundus Excellence Programme and is the only doctoral programme in the ICT area to have been awarded funding. Furthermore, focusing on the topic of Modeling Simulation Optimization of discrete, continuous and stochastic systems, the Karl Popper Science and Doctoral School is creating sustained synergies between promising young scientists and high-calibre international researchers (Karl Popper Fellows) in the field of Mathematics and Statistics. Nine departments offer students exceptional supervision conditions. Practical research and basic research complement each other. 8,9 x,x Image by Puch
Department of Financial Management Department of Geography and Regional Studies Department of Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship Department of Public, Nonprofit and Health Management Department of Production Management and Business Logistics Department of Law Department of Sociology Department of Business Management Department of Economics The Faculty of Management and Economics The Faculty of Management and Economics has always considered itself an interdisciplinary faculty. Research and teaching focus primarily on examining the entrepreneurial issues that arise during the course of the company life cycle, such as starting-up, development and growth, organisation, leadership, succession, and the restructuring of businesses. Special emphasis is placed on the analysis of micro- and macro-economic, legal, spatial and social structures and processes, as well as innovations in the sphere of business and of society, linked to the consideration of regional development and of aspects relating to energy and the environment. The Faculty of Management and Economics is comprised of nine departments. It offers an attractive range of study programmes, all of which are in equal parts theory- and application-oriented. Furthermore, all AAU students can avail themselves of the faculty s basic training course in the area of Entrepreneurship (build! Entrepreneurship certificate). In the context of the doctoral degree programme in economic science, the faculty cooperates with universities in Budapest, Ljubljana, Maribor, Rijeka, Sarajevo, Split, Vienna and Zagreb, all of which are members of the Central European PhD Network (CESEEnet). The faculty pools its strengths in collaborative research and teaching, particularly at the intersections of Business & Law, Economic, Societal & Spatial Development, as well as Business & Technology. Image by Puch 10,11 Teaching staff and researchers in nine departments collaborate across disciplines in order to think beyond business and borders, as the faculty s guiding principle states.
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Department of Organizational Development, Group Dynamics and Intervention Research Department of Palliative Care and Organisational Ethics Department of Social Ecology Department of Science, Technology and Society Studies Department of Instructional and School Development Department of Science Communication and Higher Education Research Faculty Centre for Peace Research and Peace Education The Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies The Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies was established in the year 2004, though the institutional history reaches back as far as 1979. The faculty distinguishes itself as an institution that delights in experimenting and focuses on its core strengths in transdisciplinary research. The faculty is made up of seven departments and centres. It is always open to engage in tasks in which inter- and transdisciplinary scientific work can make a significant contribution. The topics are broadly structured, but all deal with public goods. The work is aligned with selected social problem areas such as school, the environment, science, and the health care system, or peace and conflict. Overall, the IFF is committed to maintaining a balance between established and new fields of research focus. Thus, the tension between theory development and application is put to productive use. The faculty s teaching load is distributed across education at doctoral level, at Master level, and continuing education, where it is delivered in a series of university certificate programmes. Many of the activities in this sphere establish a relationship to the areas of practise represented by the participants, combined with research and intervention. The faculty actively pursues the development of extension curricula as well as the development of new Master s degree programmes. Image by Puch 14,15 Academics at seven departments and centres explore problems relating to society and teach in interdisciplinary contexts.
Institute of Didactics for the Subject German, AECC Institute of Didactics for the Subject Mathematics, AECC Institute of Didactics for the Subject Informatics, RFDZ Institute for the Development of Schools and Teaching, AECC Image by Puch Centres and institutions The School of Education (SoE) has been set up as a university centre, in which many of the competences in the area of teacher training are pooled. The AAU thus encourages the academic and professional orientation of the training and continuing education of teaching staff and sets relevant research priorities. The close cooperation with the Carinthian University College of Teacher Education and the Development Association South-East can be seen as an expression of this awareness, and is regarded as a significant contribution to strengthening Klagenfurt as an important teacher training location. The Robert Musil Institute for Literary Research/Carinthian Literature Archive is jointly carried by the AAU, the city of Klagenfurt and the province of Carinthia. Within its scope of activities, the institute is responsible for the House of Literature, literature research and the literature archive. The Musil Institute houses a special section of the university library, which is open to the public and includes around 5,000 volumes on the literary and cultural history of Carinthia and the neighbouring regions of Friuli and Slovenia. To date, the Faculty Centre for Peace Research and Peace Education is the only peace institution at a public Austrian university. The centre derives its unique profile from the combination of peace education with peace research in the sphere of the social sciences and humanities. The Faculty Centre for Sign Language and Communication of the Hearing Impaired examines the phenomenon of language that is produced in the visual channel, compared to spoken languages. The practically applied work of the centre aims to achieve a long-term improvement of the situation of hearing impaired individuals, particularly for deaf people and those who have a severe hearing impairment. The Centre for Women s and Gender Studies serves to promote and coordinate gender democratic teaching. It also contributes to the conception and implementation of Women s and Gender studies. The centre places significant emphasis on national and international co-operations as well as on establishing networks with institutions working in the Women s and Gender sphere. The Writing Skills Centre is unique in Austria, and has been developed as an institution that focuses on teaching and research in the sphere of scientific and professional writing. Particular focus is placed on supporting students while they write academic papers during the course of their studies. The M/O/T School of Management, Organizational Development and Technology offers managers a range of university certificate programmes delivered by the Alpen-Adria-Universität, covering the fields of management, organisational development and technology. The university s employees Knowledge, and the productive augmentation thereof, represent the capital of universities. For this reason, employees are the AAU s most valuable resource: Their knowledge, their expertise, and their creativity provide a foundation for the successful research and teaching performance. The AAU aims to continuously promote the expertise of its employees through the systematic development of measures of education and training. In the case of academic staff, the focus lies on providing supporting measures for the individual development of academic careers. The AAU supports a positive working environment through a variety of measures that fall within the realm of infrastructure and culture. For example, young academics are continuously supported during the process of developing and submitting projects to the FWF or the European Commission. Female academics and female students can apply for the so-called Excellentia Grants and Financial Aids, which provide financial support to young women who elect to spend time abroad in order to complete their work on a particular scientific project. Within its funding strategy, the AAU s own Research Council places particular emphasis on supporting young scientists. The continuing education system within the AAU runs a programme for young scientists, which helps them to develop specific skill sets. In order to further strengthen these efforts, a Young Scientists Think Tank was established as a consultation group by the vice-rector for research. The AAU has been awarded the Family-Friendly University certificate. In the context of the ongoing audit, measures are currently being developed that aim at achieving a family-oriented higher education policy. The university also holds the seal of quality for Workplace Health Promotion. Working together in this area, employees and students contribute significantly to a healthy environment at the AAU. Producing extraordinary work. The centres and institutions at the Alpen-Adria-Universität. The university currently employs 1,019 members of academic staff (full-time equivalents: 497.38) and 519 members of administrative and general staff (full-time equivalents: 343.23) As at 30th May 2015 16,17 x,x
The range of programmes // Bachelor s degree programmes Applied Business Administration / Applied Cultural Studies / Applied Informatics / Business and Law / Business Engineering / Educational Science / English and American Studies / Geography / German Studies / History / Information Management / Information Technology / International Business Administration / Media & Communications Science / Philosophy / Psychology / Romance Studies / Slavonic Studies / Technical Mathematics Master s degree programmes Applied Business Administration / Applied Cultural Studies / Applied Informatics / Adult and Vocational Education / English and American Studies / Geography and Regional Research / German Studies / German Studies in an Intercultural Context / History / Information Management / Information and Communications Engineering / International Management / Media and Convergence Management / Media, Communication and Culture / Philosophy / Psychology / Romance Studies / School Education / Slavonic Studies / Social and Human Ecology / Social and Integrative Teaching / Technical Mathematics / Business and Law Teaching certificate programmes German / English / History, Social Studies and Political Education / French / Italian / Slovenian / Spanish / Geography and Economics / Informatics / Mathematics Doctoral degree programmes Philosophy / Social and Economic Sciences / Technical Sciences / Natural Sciences / International PhD degree programme Interactive and Cognitive Environments 18,19 Image by Puch Studying at the Alpen-Adria- Universität The Alpen-Adria-Universität features an outstanding level of quality in teaching and offers a broad range of degree programmes and further education options. Approx. 10,000 students are engaged in learning and conducting research at the AAU. Every year, around 1,300 degree programmes and 400 university certificate programmes are completed. The AAU s range of programmes includes around 55 university certificate programmes, with 1,704 active participants registered during the summer semester 2015. As such, the Alpen-Adria-Universität is one of the largest providers of academic continuing education in Austria. Student numbers at the Alpen-Adria-Universität have shown steady growth over recent years. At the same time, the AAU sets very high benchmarks for quality in teaching, and offers excellent supervision conditions to students. Approximately 1,800 non-austrian students are enrolled at the Alpen-Adria- Universität. * As at summer semester 2015 (14th May 2015) 9,761 students are currently enrolled at the Alpen-Adria-Universität, including 1,795 international students (from 86 countries). * Mobility and internationality Nationals from more than 80 countries are currently studying at the Alpen-Adria-Universität. Many of the international students come from one of the countries in the immediate neighbourhood particularly from Germany and the Alps-Adriatic countries Italy and Slovenia. University employees also contribute significantly to the international atmosphere of the campus. The have joined the university from approx. 40 nations spread across the globe. Students from more than 80 countries and employees from around 40 nations across the globe add life to the international campus. Internationality plays an important part in the university s teaching programme. The AAU s active engagement in the Central and South-Eastern European PhD Network CESEEnet ensures internationality in Master and PhD degree programmes, as do various other cooperation agreements, including the acclaimed Erasmus-Mundus-PhD programme for Interactive and Cognitive Environments ICE, as well as three Double Degree Master s programmes: two are jointly carried out with the University of Udine (German Studies and Multimedia Communication/Information Technology), as well as one with the Technical University of Poznan in Poland (Computer Science). Together with the University LaRochelle, the AAU offers a joint degree programme for the Master s Degree in International Management. The Erasmus and joint study mobility of students continues to increase, in terms of both quantity and quality. The AAU currently maintains 264 partnership agreements with 206 universities all around the world. 181 of the university s students benefited from the Erasmus and joint study programmes, or from general scholarships, by spending time abroad. During the academic year 2014/15, 242 exchange students attended the AAU. The number of cooperation agreements with universities is continuously expanded; recent additions include: Georg-August-Göttingen Universität (Germany, Intervention Research and Cultural Sustainability), University of Iceland (Iceland, Geography), Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic, Informatics), Università della Calabria (Italy, Informatics), Université Bordeaux (France, Informatics), Tallinn University (Estonia, IFF), University of Sarajevo (Bosnia), Institut Teknologi Bandung (Indonesia), Ural Federal University (Russia), and many more.
Profile-building clusters at the Alpen-Adria-Universität Energy Management & Technology Sustainability Self-Organizing Systems Visual Culture Research at the Alpen-Adria-Universität The societal relevance of research and its contribution to gaining insights and solving current problems are of greater significance today than ever before. The Federal Government s FTI Strategy (research, technology, innovation) and the respective equivalents at the EU level aim towards setting the emphasis on the so-called Grand Challenges : climate change, food security, health, demographic change, innovation in small and medium-sized companies, energy efficiency, and the production of clean energy are among the challenges, which can be mastered with the support of research. The Alpen-Adria-Universität contributes to finding solutions for today s vast challenges by pooling and strengthening various research fields. Focusing on the research clusters Energy Management & Technology, Sustainability, Self-Organizing Systems, and Visual Culture which have already sharpened the university s profile allows holistic approaches and yields promising results. Further research clusters such as Educational Research and Entrepreneurship have excellent potential to develop a profile-building character. Among its core strengths, the AAU can count the vast diversity of knowledge, range of methodologies, and disciplines, with which researchers are able to tackle research questions: This yields a broad spectrum of outstanding research work, emerging from subject fields and from faculties alike. In the case of the particular areas of research strength Networked and Autonomous Systems and Social Ecology, the Alpen-Adria-Universität has been able to define two areas of excellence. By defining its profile so carefully, the AAU is able to further enhance its visibility and competitiveness within the international scientific community, and to earn recognition as an outstanding partner in cooperation relationships in national and international research networks. 888 publications and 149 first-published contributions to SCI, SSCI and A&HCI scientific journals were produced at the Alpen-Adria-Universität in the year 2014 (acc. to Intellectual Capital Report 2014). One notable award is the ERC Grant, which has been bestowed upon Karlheinz Erb, who is using the grant to conduct research into an integrated socio-ecological approach to land-use intensity: Analysing and mapping biophysical stocks/flows and their socioeconomic drivers until 2015. * As at 20th May 2015 Image by Puch 20,21 Researchers are currently working on 65 third party funded projects in highly competitive research programmes (FWF, 7th EU Framework Programme and H2020, FFG, OeNB). 20,21 *
The AAU campus in Klagenfurt covers a total area of 10.25 hectare and offers a range of cultural and sporting activities as well as support with the reconciliation of working/ studying and family responsibilities. The Lakeside Science & Technology Park Campus The Alpen-Adria-Universität is located on the western edge of the city of Klagenfurt, in the immediate vicinity of the lake Wörthersee. It is one of only a few campus universities in Austria, and has two additional sites in Graz and Vienna. The AAU campus in Klagenfurt covers a total area of 100,254 sq.m., and includes undeveloped green spaces amounting to 51,379 sq.m., thus ensuring the perfect harmony of studying and relaxation. The AAU also has the use of approx. 3,833 sq.m. of office space in Vienna and Graz. Austria s most modern University Sports Institute (USI) was constructed on the campus grounds in 2007. Overall, it offers 1,156 sq.m. of space for sporting activities. During the summer term of 2015, the USI programme included 171 courses, which attracted 4,994 enrolments. As of May 2015, a total of 17 athletes were receiving individual support through the programme Studying and Elite Sport, thus ensuring that they can enjoy an ideal combination of sports and studying. Across every part of the campus, art and culture are ubiquitous. The building referred to as Vorstufengebäude, designed by Roland Rainer and the first building to be erected on campus, has since been graded as a listed building. Extensive renovation work has been carried out here in recent years. The AAU regularly hosts scientific and artistic exhibitions. The University Cultural Centre (Unikum) has combined artistic practice and creative research since 1986. The most striking of the art objects are firmly tied to the 2002 construction phase on campus, and were created by internationally renowned artists. Šeijla Kamerić, Lawrence Weiner, Heimo Zobernig, Valentin Oman and the Unikum with Viktor Rogy brought forth five pieces of work under the premise of a text-oriented overall concept. As a central service facility, Family Services at the AAU provide a comprehensive range of services for students and staff with childcare responsibilities, to allow a better balance between family and work/studying. During 2014, parents working and studying at the university were supported by Family Services through the provision of a total of 10,849 childcare hours for children from the age of 8 weeks to 12 years. 8,120 of these hours took the form of flexible childcare, while 2,305 hours fell within the summer day-care programme, and 424 hours were provided as babysitter services. The AAU also offers individual childcare models (e.g. Babysitter Exchange, childcare in the context of events and workshops, creative advent children s workshop, etc.). The AAU is currently working on the introduction of an environmental management system according to EMAS III, an eco management and audit system developed by the EU, which aims to ensure the continuous improvement of environmental protection measures in organisations. Spread across an area of 230,000 sq.m., local businesses and the AAU combine their know-how in the field of modern information and communication technologies. A large part of the Faculty of Technical Sciences is housed in the Lakeside Science & Technology Park. Thus, research and teaching, theory and practice are perfectly blended. The result is an ideal interface between university and industry, science and practice, economy and society. The Lakeside Science & Technology Park is also home to the build! Startup Centre Carinthia. For over ten years, this centre has supported students and graduates, who wish to pursue their innovative business ideas and set up businesses. While they are still studying, future entrepreneurs have the opportunity to attend ring lecture courses and can prepare for independence by gaining the entrepreneurship certificate. Networked thinking and action in the immediate vicinity: Research and teaching, theory and practise are skilfully blended in the Lakeside Science & Technology Park. 22,23 x,x Image by Lakeside Park
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