Federal Minister Heinz Fassmann recently awarded the Didaktik der Naturwissenschaften (University of Salzburg – School of Education) for their high quality. The working group has repeatedly received the “Regional Educational Competence Center (RECC)” award. Achievements in biology, chemistry, geometric drawing/descriptive geometry, computer science, mathematics, media didactics and physics were honored.

In 2018, the European Commission will sponsor 42 Master’s programs in Erasmus+ across all scientific disciplines. Five of these programs are coordinated by Austrian universities, including two by the University of Salzburg: Digital Communication Leadership and Digital Earth.

Tanja Angelovska and Dietmar Roehm (both from PLUS) are the only Austrian scientists to have been nominated as associate members of the CARILSE (Center for Applied Research and Innovation in Language Sciences and Education) Research Center at the University of Portsmouth.