A great success for Paris Lodron University Salzburg. In the annual international university comparison “U-Multirank”, published on 21 September, the PLUS ranked among the top seven universities nationally, improving on the previous year. The PLUS scored well in the areas of “international organisations” and “research”, receiving 10 category A ratings.

Univ. Prof. Dr. Tuulia Ortner, Department of Psychology at PLUS, received the prestigious Alfred Binet Science Award, which comes with 2,500 euros in prize money, at the online conference of the Section for Differential Psychology, Personality Psychology and Psychological Diagnostics of the German Psychological Society.

The project, funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and based at the Center for Research of the Christian East at the University of Salzburg, focuses on the role of Syrian Christians in the process of transmission of Classical Greek philosophical and scientific literature during the early medieval period.