DFK Award 2015 for MCI students

The German Friends of the Universities in Innsbruck provide career support for high potentials – Three prizewinners from the Entrepreneurial School®

In the framework of this year’s annual general meeting of the German Friends of the Universities in Innsbruck (DFK), the DFK again made its awards to outstanding students at the Innsbruck Leopold Francis University (LFUI), Innsbruck Medical University (MUI) and Management Center Innsbruck (MCI).

The award, with its generous prize money, provides academic and professional career support for high potentials and is an emphatic form of recognition for their performance to date. Out of 35 entrants from the MCI, the prizewinners were chosen on the basis of their professional and personal achievements, their academic performance and their future perspectives.

This year’s prestigious DFK prizes were awarded to the following students of the Entrepreneurial School®:

• Anna Stribl BA, BSc, Master program in International Business & Law, year group 2013.
  She will be using the prize money to attend a trainee program offered by a leading international company where she will be able to employ and extend her competence in the field of M&A (mergers and acquisitions).

• Christian Maurer BSc, MA, Master program in Environmental, Process & Energy Engineering, year group 2013.
  He is planning to combine the research fields addressed in his two Master theses, namely knowledge management and waste-water processing, in his Ph.D. program. The DFK prize will be used to finance experiments.

• Monika Weps, Bachelor program in International Business & Management, year group 2013.
  She will employ the DFK prize money to finance a course at a prominent summer school in Brazil as well as her semester abroad in Australia.

The MCI would like to congratulate the prizewinners and wish them all the best for their further academic and professional careers. Congratulations also to the prizewinners from Innsbruck University and Innsbruck Medical University: Gregor Anich, BSc (LFUI), Katrin Schmiderer, BA (LFUI) rChristian Gatterer (MUI) and Romina Tschenett (MUI).

Press contact:
Mag. (FH) Ulrike Fuchs
Leiterin
Marketing & Communication
+43 512 2070-1510
ulrike.fuchs@mci.edu