Salzburg Provides High-Tech Specialists : Technology in Salzburg

For these important plans and the progress already achieved it is clear that Salzburg has to provide sufficient highly qualified specialists for the companies, and here too decisive steps have already been taken. Salzburg has an Institute of Computer Sciences at the University of Salzburg which moved into a new building in the Technology Centre Techno-Z in 1995, thus guaranteeing close contact between training and industry. In 1995 a special university course was introduced for telecommunication technology and telecommunication systems and successful students graduate with the degree Dipl.-Ing. FH. All the graduates of the 1995 course found a qualified job. Since 1996 there has also been a special university course for multi-media art to train specialists for these branches which have a promising future.

The third course, information business and management (1998), provides training for the economic experts, who, besides the creative forces, are indispensable to companies. In 2001 two new courses, “Development and Management of Tourist Services� and “Digital TV and Interactive Services�, were introduced. The training system of the Techno-Z Polytechnic University offers training facilities for 1,500 students. There are courses in telecommunication technology and telecommunication systems; multimedia designers are trained on the course in Multimedia Art at the University of Applied Arts, and the course in information business and management prepares managers for their tasks as directors of enterprises.