DFK SPONSORSHIP AWARD 2022 TO MCI STUDENTS

At a ceremony during the annual meeting of the German Friends of Universities in Innsbruck (DFK), the renowned DFK Study Support Award was presented to students of the Entrepreneurial University®, the Leopold Franzens University Innsbruck (LFU) and the Medical University Innsbruck. Three MCI students stood out from 30 submissions with their above-average personal and academic achievements as well as ambitious plans for the future and received the coveted sponsorship award.

Mateus Enzenberg , BSc, project staff member at the MCI and Master's student in the MCI degree programme , would like to use the sponsorship award to further develop his projects in the field of medical technology. A rehabilitation training device and a device to prevent drowning accidents in children are among his current developments.

Tobias Müller is an MCI Bachelor's student and is particularly interested in artificial intelligence and deep learning in image processing. He would like to invest the DFK sponsorship award in his start-up, which is working on the development of a fully electric off-road motorbike.

Helene Stanger, BA, , is a self-employed event manager and founder of Growin', an initiative to develop sustainable ideas through apprentices. She is aiming for a Master's degree at HEC Paris or NOVA SBE in Lisbon in the field of "Sustainability & Social Innovation" and would like to use the study prize to finance her studies.

At the Leopold Franzens University of Innsbruck, the promotional prizes went to Alex Fischer, Anna Siebenbrunner and Katharina Föger. At the Medical University, the prizes went to Stefan Fuchs, Marc Kalenka and Viktor Lang.

The DFK is an association of respected personalities from business, science, society and politics. The objective of the DFK is to promote the universities in Innsbruck, including the MCI, and their students both ideally and materially, to promote cooperation between these universities on a partnership basis, to network their graduates with the business community and to foster friendly relations between its members.