Covid developments and next steps for studying at the PLUS from January: a message from the Vice Rector for Academic Affairs, Martin Weichbold, and the chairing team of the Students’ Union, Laura Reppmann, Lara Simonitsch and Manuel Gruber.

In an interview for the Salzburger Nachrichten, Hannes Winner argues that globalization has led to enormous welfare gains for industrialized and developing countries. At the same time, there are also market failures that significantly reduce these welfare effects (e.g. environmental effects, labor standards). Public regulation is therefore needed.

On 10 December 2021, Dr Christine Blume and Monika Angerer, MSc received the Christian Doppler Prize of the State of Salzburg for their joint work. In the three papers submitted, Christine Blume and Monika Angerer investigated whether the integrity of circadian rhythms is linked to the clinical condition of patients with disorders of consciousness.