University of Innsbruck School of Management

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Dean: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Albrecht BECKER

Dean of Studies: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Matthias BANK

Welcome to the School of Management,

the University of Innsbruck School of Management was established on October 1, 2004 as one of the three successor faculties of the former Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences. It currently comprises five departments with a research and teaching staff of approximately 80, a Business Languages Unit, and approximately 20 administrative staff members.

The School of Management

• builds its success on the excellent knowledge and skills of all faculty members for the upcoming development processes and

• understands itself as a dynamic knowledge pool that gathers internationally available knowledge, expands it and makes it accessible in regional context.

Excellent research staff, the intensive co-operation with high-ranking, primarily European universities and the systematic integration of colleagues from all over the world as visiting staff ensure high-quality education. Students will find excellent study conditions: The modern technical equipment and appropriate use of e-learning are an expression of our orientation towards the future. Small student groups (max. 30 people) and innovative forms of teaching and learning promote the dialogue and the co-operation between teaching staff and students. There is hardly any room here for hierarchical differences; students are not seen as “consumers” but as “co-producers”. A strong link to business enterprises and not-for-profit organisations will improve graduates’ career chances. Our educational philosophy „If you don’t want to think, you’re out!“ This was the principle the famous artist Joseph Beuys laid down for the students in his master class. We, too, think of this principle as an appropriate motto for university education. In the first instance, it describes our responsibility as teachers to provide a course of study that requires real thinking rather than mere memorising. At the same time, it stresses the students’ responsibility to examine a subject closely, to develop arguments and to use them to arrive at their own position and solutions. If all involved take this principle seriously, university education becomes an intellectual challenge and only then does a real university emerge. We’d like to invite you to take part in building such a university.

Albrecht Becker, Dean