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Giving students the chance to develop as good citizens is a key part of their educational experience. That's what led MU to recognize one of their own recently - BBA student Simon Hala received the "Student Volunteer Award" for his contributions to student and community life during the Fall 2011-2012 semester.

MU added another success story to its growing list of achievements. On Monday, April 23rd, MODUL University Vienna received the Sustainability Award 2012 in the category of Structural Foundation for the programs ‘’MU Cares’’, ’’Scholarship of Hope’’, and ‘’Employee Sustainability Award’’.

As part of MU’s ongoing Latest Trends series, Dr. Janne J. Liburd, Associate Professor and Director of the Centre for Tourism, Innovation and Culture at the University of Southern Denmark, was invited to lecture on Kahlenberg.

With more than 800 million monthly active users, the Facebook platform bears significant potential for scientific projects. A team of scientists in Austria has tapped into this potential with a social media application to collect information on climate change awareness and the users’ knowledge about the underlying processes. Players face two types of challenges to increase their score: selecting correct relations between two environmental concepts, and answering climate change related questions.

http://www.ecoresearch.net/triple-c [13]

This year's conference of the Travel and Tourism Research Association - European Chapter will be held in Bilbao, Spain from 18 to 20 April. The overall conference theme is "Performance Measurement and Management in Tourism".

Some students just can’t get enough of MODUL University Vienna – including two of our alumni who are now full time employees. BBA ’10 Leopold Spiegelfeld, Recruitment & Marketing Coordinator has been criss-crossing Europe to promote MU.

His most recent activity took him to his homeland of South Tyrol, where students from the Landeshotelfachschule Kaiserhof, one of the oldest and most respected Tourism schools in Italy, learned about options for the next step in their education.

A warm meal can go a long way to making someone's day just a little easier - that's the principle that led a team of student volunteers (part of the MU Cares [20] charity program) to the Gruft's soup kitchen for the homeless. Enthused by a previous charity cookoff [21] to help refugee asylum seekers, students arranged to take over the soup kitchen in the basement of the Barnabitenkirche on Mariahilferstrasse for an afternoon.