2026 World Cup: Spain in the lead
An international team, including researchers from the University of Innsbruck and TU Dortmund University, has once again produced a data-driven prediction for the World Cup. According to the statistical analysis, Spain is the top favorite with a 14.5 % probability, followed closely by England and France, both with 12.4 %, and Germany with 11.2 %.
Peter Zoller elected Fellow of the Royal Society
Peter Zoller, professor emeritus at the University of Innsbruck and scientific director emeritus at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS). The Royal Society is the national academy of sciences of the United Kingdom and the oldest scientific society in the world.
AURORA at the European Student Assembly 2026
Students make their voices heard: A delegation from AURORA attended the European Student Assembly 2026 in the European Parliament, where young people from all over Europe jointly developed recommendations on current European challenges.
Designing better quantum circuits with AI
Researchers from the group of theoretical physicist Hans Briegel have collaborated with NVIDIA to develop an AI method that automatically generates efficient quantum circuits, a key bottleneck in making existent quantum computers practically useful.
European Universities: Perspectives from AURORA
What will the universities of the future look like? This question was at the heart of the event “Impulses for the Higher Education Strategy 2040: European Universities as Drivers of Innovation for the Universities of the Future?”, which took place on April 28th at the MuseumsQuartier in Vienna. Representatives from politics, higher education institutions and European networks joined the event.
AQT sets new European industry standard
University of Innsbruck's spin-off Alpine Quantum Technologies (AQT) has announced a transformative leap in computational performance. The company unveiled the LYNX Series, a new generation of 19-inch rack-mounted quantum computers that has officially achieved a record-breaking Quantum Volume (QV) of 32,768.
Information on the Discontinuation of Fileshare
"Fileshare", the previous data storage platform of the university, will be deactivated in summer. Employees and students are requested to transfer their data stored there to the new data storage platform UNIverse. Students have until 30 June 2026 to do this; the deadline for employees is 31 July 2026.
Software development in the AI transformation
At the "Software Engineering Live" workshop held on March 19 and 20, 2026, in Kitzbühel, approximately 50 experts from academia and industry discussed how artificial intelligence is fundamentally transforming software development and what skills will be in demand in the future.