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Welcome meet and greet at the OeAD building

On 21 October, after a long break due to the pandemic, a welcome event took place again at the OeAD building.

1 min read · 02. November 2022
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Magdalena Boch - An expert on dog brains in Oxford

Dr Magdalena Boch spent the academic year 2021/22 on a Marietta Blau Grant at the Cognitive Neuroecology Lab at the University of Oxford, researching evolutionary similarities and differences in human and dog brains.

6 min read · 21. October 2022
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Queer culture in documentary music theatre

Wataru Mukai is from Japan and currently a doctoral student at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz on a Monbukagakusho scholarship. He is a composer as well as a theatre maker and explores queer communities to create documentary music theatre.

3 min read · 17. October 2022
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Meeting top researchers, scientific breakthroughs & enjoying the Austrian way of life - Mark's story

Mark Jason is currently an Instructor at the Institute of Mathematics, University of the Philippines Diliman, soon to be Assistant Professor. He was an Ernst Mach ASEA UNINET scholarship holder from 2017-2020 and defended his PhD thesis in August 2022.

5 min read · 07. September 2022
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Operettas, pierogi, lunar landscapes and moose – Mirjana Plath’s academic year in Canada

Doctoral Research Fellow Mirjana Plath talks about her research stay at the Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada in the academic year 2021/22

6 min read · 06. September 2022
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events4scholars: Hiking trip to Schneeberg 2022

Once again it was time to put on our hiking boots and head out into nature...

2 min read · 31. August 2022
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Another important step forward in food security - Rizky Kirana wins Women in Triticum award

OeAD scholar Rizky Kirana wins the prestigious 2022 Women in Triticum award. Together with six other women from all over the world OeAD scholarship holder Rizky Kirana has won the 2022 Women in Triticum Award for early career women scientists working in wheat. Rizky is a highly motivated and enthusiastic female plant breeding researcher currently studying at BOKU. Read about her research and her answers to our questions.

6 min read · 08. July 2022
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Academic abilities acquired in Austria will be fundamental for my career goals

Roberta Azevedo Silveira from Brazil is an Ernst Mach scholarship holder currently studying at Carinthia University of Applied Sciences. Since September 2021, she is studying Intercultural Management in Villach for two semesters. Read more about her story below.

5 min read · 20. June 2022
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How my life changed by chance

Kostiantyn Halahura is a 24 years old software developer from Eastern Ukraine, whose life was suddenly changed by chance. In June 2016, he obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science at National University of Radio Electronics (NURE), Kharkiv, Ukraine, Faculty of Computer Science at the Systems Engineering Department. Before defending his master’s thesis “System Design of Software and Hardware for the Smart House Based on Data Analysis” at NURE in distance mode in May 2022, he applied for an Ernst Mach scholarship to study at an Austrian University of Applied Sciences. Read more about his journey below.

7 min read · 08. June 2022
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OeAD scholarship holders explore rich Austrian history

For our incoming scholarship holders, OeAD is organizing events4scholars to show them the beauty of Austria and enable them to meet and get to know each other. Last week, scholarship holders from 18 different countries joined our daytrip to Schloss Hof Estate and Schloss Marchegg. Please find below the article of our scholarship holder Majlinda Aliu.

3 min read · 25. May 2022
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Junlai Zhang: “A thrilling but dizzying array of new situations and challenges”

On April 30, 2022, the events4scholars team organized an intercultural workshop “My life in Austria- Transforming social skills into intercultural competence” at the OeAD house. By surfacing their own cultural background participants could strengthen awareness of their existing potentials and find new ways of dealing with challenging situations in Austria. Of course the workshop has been a chance to get to know each other and reflect together on their time in Austria.

4 min read · 11. May 2022
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Video: Country Talk Armenia

In the third edition of the OeAD Country Talks, APPEAR scholar Hasmik Hovakimyan invites us to a journey to learn more about geography and culture as well as the cuisine of Armenia.

6 min read · 10. May 2022