Going to a new country to study is exciting, inspiring, and wonderful but also entails lots of questions, challenges, and uncertainties.

Early Music in Picture by Theresa Pewal.

This spring, Universities Austria (uniko) launched the online campaign “UNInteressant? – Ideen, die unser Leben verbessern” [UNInteresting? – Ideas that Improve Our Lives].

For two years now, the mdw has been one of the first universities in Austria to use 100 % green power—which is just one among many examples of sustainable university management set by the initiative “green mdw”.

Conference attendance, lecture tours, guest lectureships: research is international and produces an enormous ecological footprint. So how can it be made to function in a more climate-friendly manner?

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

This is the first time ever that an Austrian institution has claimed the top spot in a worldwide ranking of universities.