The fact that gender identity and sexual orientation play a role in the workplace is demonstrated by a recent study on “Workplace Situations of LGBTI Individuals in Austria” commissioned by the Vienna Chamber of Labour.

On 16 December 2019, mdw Rector Ulrike Sych honoured the winners of the first-ever Herta and Kurt Blaukopf Award for Outstanding Dissertations at the mdw.

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.