Humanities

Transnational Perceptions of History

“So, what does this have to do with me, anyway?” Transnational perceptions of the history of National Socialism and the Holocaust

• STERNFELD, N. (2013): Kontaktzonen der Geschichtsvermittlung. Transnationales Lernen über den Holocaust in der postnazistischen Migrationsgesellschaft.

  Dissertation an der phil. Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien 2013, Wien. (Ausgezeichnet mit dem BMWF “Award of Excellence“ für herausragende Dissertationen)

Information Technology

AAS Endurance

A robotic sailing boat to do research on marine mammals

• STELZER, R. (2012): Autonomous Sailboat Navigation – Novel Algorithms and Experimental Demonstration

  De Montfort University, UK

Teaching and Learning

Cross Age Peer Tutoring in Physics

By learning with junior peers, students investigate their perceptions of physics concepts and adapt their own cognitive structures

• KORNER, M. (2014): Cross-Age Peer Tutoring in Physik. Evaluation einer Unterrichtsmethode.

  Universität Wien (Dissertation).

Medicine and Health

When Our Lifestyle Sickens Us!

Are the foundations for "prosperity diseases" already present in our youth? To answer this question the students of the HLFS Ursprung collected and analyzed health and nutritional data from 325 of their classmates

• HINZ, C.: Assessment of body iron stores in relation to cardiometabolic risk factors in a cohort of apparently healthy adolescents

  Medizinische Universität Innsbruck 2011

Natural Sciences

Viel-Falter

Entwicklung und Evaluierung eines Erhebungssystems siedlungsnaher Schmetterlingshabitate

• RÜDISSER, J. (2015): Simplifying biodiversity.

  Applied environmental indicators at landscape scale.

  Universität Innsbruck, Fakultät für Biologie.

Functional feed for cows – added-value rather than nutritional value

Scientists and pupils work together to enhance functional properties of grains fed to dairy cows

• HARDER, H. (2015): Assessing the efficacy of processing grain with organic acids and pullulanase to modulate its nutrient composition and improve ruminal fermentation in vitro.

  Dissertation zum Dr. tech. nat., Veterinärmedizinische Universität Wien, Wien (Betreuer: Univ.-Prof. Qendrim Zebeli, Ao. Univ. Prof. Wilhelm Friedrich Knaus)