Programme 2025
Hannes Raffaseder | Chief Executive Officer
Daniela Lohner | Head of International Office
Further Representatives of the St. Pölten UAS
Future & Study Lab (B.0.12)
Facilitator: Daniela Lohner | Head of Service Unit, International Office, Center for Study and Organisation
Mix & mingle with participants of the International Week and meet representatives of the six departments of the St. Pölten UAS, as well as representatives from the university’s organisational units. Network, e.g. with other guests, representatives from the International Office, interdisciplinary Lab, European Projects Semester, the European University Alliance ‘E³UDRES²’, Research & Knowledge Transfer, Higher Education Development and Quality Management, LEARN, etc. Get to know the six different departments of the St. Pölten UAS:
Faculty of Health and Social Sciences:
• Department of Health Sciences
• Department of Social Sciences
Faculty of Engineering and Business:
• Department of Digital Business & Innovation
• Department of Media & Digital Technologies
• Department of Computer Science & Security
• Department of Rail Technology & Mobility
Large Assembly Hall (A.0.04)
Facilitators: Claudia Grötzl & Christina Hemmelmayr | International Office
Join a guided walking tour and get to know the city of St. Pölten.
Meeting Point: Main Entrance Building B
Facilitators:
Marlene Cermak | Service and Competence Centre for Higher Education Development and Quality Management
Lisa David | Service and Competence Centre for Teaching/Learning Development and Educational Offers (LEARN)
Questions that will be addressed during this session include:
- Union of skills, future skills, skills for the labour market, societal skills, soft skills vs. hard skills: Which skills do we need?
- Which impact do internationalisation measures have on the skill sets of students and staff?
- How can international collaboration contribute to the acquisition/improvement of these skills in students & staff
- International teaching, learning, and cooperation formats: Which level of complexity do we want for our partnerships? Which impact do they have on the skills of students & staff, our institutions, and eventually even our society?
Contributor(s):
tba | St. Pölten UAS, AT
Student Panel:
Entering the Academic World: Students' Experience in Building Research Skills:
tba | Students of the Bachelor Degree Programme Media Management at the St. Pölten UAS, AT
Format: Student Panel, Interactive Format, Lightning Talk
Future & Study Lab (B.0.12)
Facilitators: Anna Steinberger & Dilara Gündüz | Gender & Diversity
It takes various skills to handle differences in gender and diversity sensitively. Students of the St. Pölten UAS and the European University Alliance E³UDRES² had the opportunity to compete for the Gender & Diversity Award. The finalists in the different categories will pitch their final theses and be rated by a jury. The winners will then receive an award. While the jury makes its choice, there will be a keynote on the topic of ‘Gender & Diversity’.
Pitches of students’ theses shortlisted for the Gender & Diversity Award
Keynote by guest speaker
Gender & Diversity Award Ceremony
Keynote: tba
Contributors: Students, tba
Format: Pitches, Keynote, Award Ceremony
Future & Study Lab (B.0.12)
The Golden Wire is the media award of the St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences. It is awarded in seven categories to Students and alumni of the Department of Media and Digital Technologies.
Format: Award Ceremony
Main Auditorium (A.0.18)
Facilitators:
Leopold Kögler-Vencour | Section Head International Relations, Research and Knowledge Transfer, Programme Development, Service and Competence Center for Higher Education Development and Quality Management
Daniela Lohner | Head of Service Unit, International Office, Center for Study and Organisation
How can international partnerships impact the development of skills?
Questions that will be addressed during this session are, e.g.:
- Acquisition of new partners
- Where do we want partners?
- How do we define a good partnership?
- What constitutes the mutual benefit of the respective partnership?
- Which role does funding play?
- How can partners be retained and cooperations strengthened?
- What role does the balance of activities in the partnership play (e.g., balance of mobility movements between partners)?
- Who are our strategically important partners? How do we define strategically important cooperations?
- Evaluation of cooperation partnerships: before the start of a cooperation, during its term
- The more, the merrier? How many partners do we want?
- How do we cultivate our partnerships? Who cultivates them? What are our resources for doing this?
- Which types of cooperations do we maintain, and which ones are important/necessary for us as a higher education institution?
- Partner universities in teaching
- Research and project partnerships
- (International) stakeholders
- Further cooperations
Contributor(s):
tba | Univeristiy
Format: Lightning Talk, followed by an Interactive Workshop
Future & Study Lab (B.0.12)
Facilitator:
Daniela Lohner | Head of Service Unit, International Office, Center for Study and Organisation
Leopold Kögler-Vencour | Section Head International Relations, Research and Knowledge Transfer, Programme Development, Service and Competence Center for Higher Education Development and Quality Management
How can international mobility programmes contribute to the ‘union of skills’?
- Excellence Programmes: European University Alliances, Erasmus Mundus Programme
- Excellence for Teaching Joint Master: programme design, exchange of best practices
- Call for Contributions: Hand in your examples of best practices in joint master programmes
The role of networks:
- European Project Semester (EPS) network, SocNet98
- businet, Africa-UniNet, Eurasia-Pacific-Uninet
- etc.
Contributor(s):
tba | St. Pölten UAS, AT
Format: Interactive Format
Future & Study Lab (B.0.12)
Facilitator: International Office
The International Office of the St. Pölten UAS organises the yearly Go International! day on 27 November 2025. Students and staff of the St. Pölten UAS learn more about exchange possibilities. All participants from our partner institutions are warmly invited to present their institution at a booth at the Partner University Fair and get directly in touch with students and staff from St. Pölten.
Main Hall A (A.0.19)
Facilitator:
Daniela Lohner | Head of Service Unit, International Office, Center for Study and Organisation
Leopold Kögler-Vencour | Section Head International Relations, Research and Knowledge Transfer, Programme Development, Service and Competence Center for Higher Education Development and Quality Management
- Cooperations for the exchange of students and teaching staff and for staff training:
- Bilateral Agreements / Memorandum of Understanding
- Erasmus+ cooperations
- Ceepus, Swiss-European Mobility Programme, Fulbright, etc.
- Short-term mobility cooperations:
- Overview of formats:
- Best practices and exchange of good practices
- How to find good, reliable, and engaged partners for short-term formats like ‘Blended Intensive Programmes’ (BIPs), summer schools, etc.
- Physical, blended, virtual (COILs, MOOCs, lectures) mobilities
- Shared lectures / co-teaching activities
- Game-based skills/learning, entrepreneurial, challenged-based learning (e.g., E³UDRES²)
- Career Building & Graduate Network:
- Cooperations with international companies and organisations, business partners
- Regional partnerships and networks
- Internships abroad
- Overview of formats:
Contributor(s):
tba | Univeristiy
Format: Interactive Format
Future & Study Lab (B.0.12)
Johann Haag | Chief Executive Officer
Daniela Lohner | Head of the International Office
Future & Study Lab (B.0.12)