With knowledge becoming increasingly digitised and access to knowledge consequently becoming more or less unlimited, upholding academic integrity at university-level institutions worldwide is more important than ever.

On 15 October, “Musiktherapie mit Geflüchteten” [Music Therapy with Refugees]—a cooperative project of the mdw and the organisation Integrationshaus—was awarded this year’s MYKI-Kinderschutzpreis [Child Protection Prize] in one of its four categories.

"Just Play!?" was this year's theme at isa – the International Summer Academy of the mdw.

On 1 October 2019, mdw Rector Ulrike Sych began her second four-year term of office.

Be it about having credits for previous coursework transferred at the beginning of one’s studies at the mdw, or receiving one’s academic degree at the end: all students, sooner or later, come into contact with the mdw’s director of studies.

The 7th isaScience Conference was held from 7 to 11 August 2019 in Reichenau an der Rax.