United Global Academy
United Global Academy (UGA) is a university association that sees itself as a global platform for knowledge transfer between science, business, politics and culture. The UGA is based in Vienna .
founding
The United Global Academy (UGA) is a network of universities, scientific institutions, companies and international organizations. It is based in Vienna and was founded in 2005 by the OIER - Organization for International Economic Relations, which has existed since 1947, together with Daimler AG and universities from Europe and North America .
Topics and projects
As an inter-university organization, the UGA deals with the exchange of knowledge and topics such as future viability, mobility, innovation, sustainability and social responsibility. It sees itself as a project-oriented global network with strong regional roots. Through its partner universities on all continents, the UGA trains a globally networked elite of inventors and promotes in these institutes for “integral innovation”, etc. a. in the master’s course “Integral Studies”. The innovations created there are evaluated , selected, protected and exploited on the investment market in our own “Idea Production Center” . The UGA ensures curricular quality assurance, harmonious mobility in the network and the coordination and management of joint projects.
Board
- Matthias Kleinert , board member
- Günther Granser , board member
- Arnold van Zyl , board member
- Gerhard Wildmoser, board member
- Alfred Gutschelhofer , board member
- Herbert Kraus , board member
United Global Academy Science Award
The United Global Academy has been awarding the United Global Academy Science Prize (formerly Alpen-Adria Science Prize) since 2001 . This award honors outstanding research results by young researchers in the field of economics.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.landespressedienst.steiermark.at ( Memento from April 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive )