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Following the announcement of a new Technical University (TU) in Upper Austria at the end of August, Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, Education Minister Heinz Famann, Upper Austrian LH Thomas Stelzer (all vice-president) and the rector of the Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Meinhard Lukas, presented a first calendar on Tuesday. . Therefore, the details must be worked out first, but Kurz emphasized that UT’s new budget would not be at the expense of existing universities, but rather that the money would come “to the top.”
Now a preparatory group with members from politics, science and industry is supposed to clarify the key points: location, name, capacity, financing, but also the architecture of the study and the legal framework. Then it must present its results to a founding convention that will take place in the winter semester of 2021. The goal is for students to “get into college” during this legislative period (from the federal government, note), as Famann said.
The press conference to take a look:
What was known so far: In a first phase, a working group will be formed in which representatives of the ministry, the state and various scientific institutions prepare the project and, among other things, develop factors for choosing the place. No decision has yet to be made about placement in this group, according to circles reported in the ON news.
In his speech at the end of August, Sebastian Kurz spoke of a new Technical University (TU) in Linz. Many experts see synergies in the immediate vicinity of the JKU, but now there are also suggestions for alternative locations.
Only after this working group should a founding commission begin detailed work on the project. The goals are ambitious: the first students of the new TU with a focus on digitization should start their studies from 2023.
Last week, the rector of the JKU, Lukas, had said that the planned TU would have to be something “radically new”, based on the strengths of the state. In this context, Lukas also urged that the sticks for the project be taken “in the coming months.”
