Module University Vienna
| MODUL University Vienna | |
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| founding | July 30, 2007 |
| Sponsorship | Vienna Chamber of Commerce and others |
| place | Vienna , Austria |
| president | Karl Wöber |
| Students | 600 |
| Employee | 100 |
| Website | www.modul.ac.at |
The Module University Vienna ( spelling MODUL University Vienna , MU Vienna for short ) is a private university in Vienna that was opened in 2007 by the Vienna Chamber of Commerce with the support of Vienna Tourism, the Vienna City Administration and other private universities in Vienna with English as the working language. Its seat is on the Kahlenberg in the 19th district of Vienna , Döbling . The MU Vienna is (as of summer 2019) one of five private universities in Vienna .
history
founder
The university was by the Vienna Chamber of Commerce (90%) and the foundation of the Saudi - Austrian businessman Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber initiated (10%) and with the support of the City of Vienna and the Vienna Tourist Board built. The aim of the founders was to offer students internationally oriented, practice-related (post-graduate) studies in the fields of tourism science, information technology and public administration (“public governance”) while using Vienna's active role in European city tourism . Karl Wöber , who had previously taught and carried out research in the field of tourism science at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and was particularly concerned with city tourism, was appointed as the founding president .
Around 2010 it emerged that co-founder Al Jaber could no longer fulfill some of the promises he had made to finance the private university. The loss was compensated by the Vienna Chamber of Commerce; Al Jaber has since left the operating company.
Surname
The name "Modul" has been used by the Vienna Chamber of Commerce since 1975 for its tourism schools, which are also located in the 19th district and are structurally combined with the hotel of the same name ( module in the valley ). The name goes back to the honeycomb principle, according to which the architect Josef Fleischer designed the inner room structure of the octagon-like building for the hotel and school from 1973–1975.
The former technical school for the hotel, restaurant and coffee-making trade, later called the hotel management school, today a higher education institution for tourism, which leads to a specialist Matura , was founded in 1908 and is the second oldest tourism school in the world. The management team of the Modul tourism schools was commissioned by the Vienna Chamber of Commerce in 2004 to design the Module University Vienna.
Location
The years of neglect of the Kahlenberg, a vantage point that was heavily used for tourism in earlier decades, but in the end its infrastructure was hardly attractive anymore, led to criticism of the city administration. It was therefore also important for them that the location of the University Vienna module ( module on the mountain ) enabled this exposed space to be put to good use again. There is a webcam on the MU building, which can also be accessed via the city administration's website, and shows the view of Vienna. In 2015, the Presidium of the Vienna Chamber of Commerce decided to move the Module University Vienna and the Tourism Schools Modul 2018 to a new, shared location on Muthgasse in Döbling (also the 19th district). On this lane near the Vienna Heiligenstadt train station (U-Bahn, S-Bahn, Franz-Josefs-Bahn ) you will find the editorial and printing works of the two major Viennese daily newspapers Kronen Zeitung (at No. 2) and Kurier (formerly No. 30, new: Leopold-Ungar-Platz 1) and (at no. 18) several institutes of the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna . The buildings for the two modular institutions were to be rebuilt.
In 2017/2018, these intentions were discarded for reasons of cost, without this being specifically made public.
Admission
The MU Vienna was the Austrian Accreditation Council , initially limited, performed the state recognition of private universities on behalf of the Ministry of Science on 30 July 2007 as a private university for five years, approved and launched its operation in the winter semester 2007/2008.
Since 2011, the state recognition of private universities has been regulated by the Agency for Quality Assurance and Accreditation Austria , which was founded on March 1, 2011 on the basis of the Higher Education Quality Assurance Act (HS-QSG) as part of a fundamental redesign of the system of external quality assurance in Austria . According to the legal mandate, AQ Austria is responsible for the entire higher education sector (with the exception of teacher training colleges) in Austria.
In addition, the study programs offered by the MU of Tourism since 2012 are from the certification agency Ted.Qual World Tourism Organization accredited to the United Nations (UNWTO).
sustainability
According to its own statements, the MU Vienna has made sustainability one of its basic principles. This should be part of the curriculum and the research and should be made visible in the daily workflow according to the objectives. The university is currently citing solar panels on the roof, heating the rooms with biological fuels and waste recycling as examples. A “Sustainability Committee” is supposed to monitor compliance with the self-imposed rules.
Bodies
The MU Vienna is headed by a three-person executive committee (“Board”): the President, the Vice-President and the Managing Director. The University Council, which supports the development of the MU Vienna, consists of seven representatives of the owners; The President and Managing Director take part in the meetings as extraordinary members. The University Assembly consists of all faculty members, currently two representatives of external lecturers and four students and advises chaired by the President. It elects the members of various committees and proposes candidates for the offices of President and Vice-President.
Course offer
In 2012, there were seven students for one employee at MU Vienna. The students came from around 70 countries.
The offer is divided into four departments:
- New media technology (Head: Arno Scharl)
- Public administration and management (Head: Sabine Sedlacek)
- Tourism and Hotel Management (Head: Dagmar Lund-Durlacher)
- Applied Statistics and Applied Economics (Head: Ivo Ponocny)
- International Management (Head: Horst Treiblmaier)
The entrepreneurial advisory committee, known as the "Industry Advisory Board", has an influence on the design of the offer. The following academic degrees can currently be aspired to:
- Bachelor of Science (BSc) in International Management
- Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) in Tourism and Hospitality Management
- Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) in Tourism, Hotel Management and Operations
- Master of Science (MSc) in Sustainable Development, Management and Policy
- Master of Science (MSc) in International Tourism Management
- Master of Science (MSc) in Management
- Master of Business Administration (MBA)
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Business and Socioeconomic Sciences
Work
- Arno Scharl et al .: Trend analysis in election campaigns ("US Election 2008 Web Monitor"). Vienna 2007.
- MU Vienna and European Cities Marketing: European Cities' Visitors Report 2009
- Josef Mazanec, Karl Wöber (Ed.): Analyzing International City Tourism. Springer, Vienna / New York ²2009, ISBN 978-3-211-09415-0 , 249 pages (with contributions by six MU Vienna employees).
- Dagmar Lund-Durlacher, Ulrike Bauernfeind, Anja Hergesell: The tourism job market as an opportunity for women - status quo and future prospects. Modul Research GmbH, Vienna 2010
- European Cities Marketing (Ed.): European Cities Marketing Benchmarking Report. 6th edition, Dijon 2010, developed by MU Vienna
Since 2008, the University Vienna module is affiliiertes member of the UNWTO, the World Tourism Organization of the United Nations. In 2009 , the UNWTO awarded the MU Vienna and Österreich Werbung the Ulysses Prize for the TourMIS (Tourist Marketing Information System) statistical project run by these two institutions in Madrid. for innovations in the tourism industry.
Illustrations
Entrance area from the Kahlenberg summit plateau
Study area
Terrace with a “tourist view” of Vienna
With their International Day , the MU students supported the reconstruction after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ modul.ac.at
- ^ "Die Presse", March 16, 2007
- ↑ "Die Presse", July 11, 2007
- ↑ Website of the tourism schools of the Vienna Chamber of Commerce module ( Memento from September 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Website of the Hotel Modul ( Memento from June 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Felix Czeike : Historical Lexicon Vienna. Volume 3: Ha-La. Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-218-00545-0 , p. 273.
- ^ Website of the tourism schools module ( Memento from August 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ "Die Presse" , March 20, 2009.
- ↑ Web camera on the MUV website
- ^ Message from February 16, 2015 on the website of ORF, the state radio and television company.
- ^ Website of the Austrian Accreditation Council: Facts and Figures at a Glance_2007 , p. 3 ( Memento of August 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), last accessed on September 21, 2010.
- ↑ Federal Law Gazette I No. 74/2011 with amendments 2013 in the legal information system of the Federal Chancellery.
- ↑ AQ Austria website: aq.ac.at , last accessed on March 20, 2013.
- ↑ "Die Presse" , October 30, 2008.
- ^ Online "Standard" , January 8, 2008.
- ↑ ECM website for the tourism industry
- ^ Online "Standard" , June 4, 2010.
- ^ Announcement of the report , June 22, 2010.
- ↑ Announcement about the award ceremony on the MU website, May 28, 2009.
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