aau/MüllerNicoletta Apolito is a communication scholar and doctoral researcher at the Centro Studi Interculturali dell’Università di Verona. Her work is rooted in a region that is home to just under one million people, yet welcomes around three million tourists every year. For her doctoral thesis, she interviewed cultural tourism workers in Verona and its surrounding region, asking them about their intercultural experiences and the challenges they encounter in their work.

The University of Klagenfurt calls for a demonstration against cuts

To kick off the tennis season on 13 May 2025, a tie-break tournament was held on the courts at USI Outdoor. The tournament was played in a single group. After just under four hours, the winner was Andreas ZOLLBRECHT. Second place went to Philipp KNEISSL. And Daniel BUGELNIG was delighted to take third place.
Thanks to Patrick OFNER for the excellent organisation. A big thank you also goes to Igor PAVLOVSKY for the superb court conditions.
 
See you next year!

On 14 and 15 May 2026, the Unisport Austria 3×3 Basketball Championships took place at the USI Innsbruck. The University of Klagenfurt once again fielded a team and finished in 10th place. The University of Innsbruck 1 team were crowned Unisport Austria champions. Second place went to the University of Vienna 1. The University of Graz 1 team won the bronze medal.

Geleitet wird der neue Verbund von der Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU), der FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg und der Technischen Universität Nürnberg. Die Universitäten Bamberg und Bayreuth komplettieren die ELLIS Unit Franconia.

The kick-off of AI Learning Labs brought the community together for a wide-ranging discussion lasting over two hours; here are the video recording and highlights
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LagerhausAs part of a successful collaboration between the Institute of Management, Department of Marketing and International Management at the University of Klagenfurt and Unser Lagerhaus Warenhandelsgesellschaft m.b.H., Philipp Hiesel presented his Master’s thesis on digitalisation in agricultural distribution on 11 May.

Die moderne Biologie blickt heute tiefer in die Zellen von Lebewesen als je zuvor. Für einen weiteren technologischen Fortschritt bei der Analyse von Ribonukleinsäuren (RNA) sorgt nun ein Forschungsteam aus der Bioinformatik der Universität Würzburg.

Since the United States and Israel launched strikes on Iran on February 28, 2026, triggering a wave of Iranian missile and drone attacks across the region, Gulf governments have moved swiftly to seal, even further, the information environment, controlling what their populations can see, say, and share abou

In the next upcoming special issue of the Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice six articles about music metadata written by IViR researchers will be published. These articles analyse music metadata issues through various, primarily legal lenses.
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Engage your curiosity and deepen your knowledge with the Wikipedia app’s 25-day Reading Challenge. Wikipedia is kicking off this app initiative to celebrate its 25th birthday, a year-long event paying tribute to a quarter century of the online free encyclopedia. All that you need to do to participate is open up the Wikipedia app and read at least one article a day for 25 consecutive days while the Reading Challenge is underway. You have until 18 June to get started.

transmediale 2027 invites applications for the Lattice Labs, a series of experimental working groups dedicated to rethinking and testing alternatives to technological monocultures of extraction and surveillance. Building towards the festival, the Lattice Labs introduce a process-based approach to collective learning and knowledge dissemination.

Each Lab is formed by about five participants and guided by an experienced artist or technologist. Together, participants develop a project that is presented and activated through public events during the festival week in Berlin.

JAKARTA, 12 May 2026 – The implementation of the Joint Ministerial Decree (SKB) of Seven Ministers on Guidelines for the Utilization and Learning of Digital Technology and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Formal, Nonformal, and Informal education requires cross-sectoral collaboration that extends far beyond the classroom.

We hope you will join us from 26–27 October at the historic University of Barcelona as we translate evidence-based research into actionable policy.
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Tomorrow the 19th international conference CPDP kicks off in Brussels. Researchers from IViR are well represented in different panels.
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