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.
In 2019, we celebrated 150 years of diplomatic relations between Japan and Austria, and thus one and a half centuries of eventful history that have witnessed the complete transformation of the notion of an Austrian state as well as Japan’s transformation from a “developing country” into a leading industrial power.