Raiffeisen Awards ceremony at MCI

Partnership between Management Center Innsbruck and Raiffeisen-Landesbank Tirol AG leads to two attractive scholarships

As a long-term partner and sponsor of MCI, Raiffeisen appreciates academic education as a valuable resource for personal, entrepreneurial, and social development. For this reason, Raiffeisen-Landesbank Tirol AG (RLB) is again sponsoring two attractive scholarships, which have now been presented to the awardees in a festive atmosphere.

2017 Raiffeisen Award
The Raiffeisen Award at MCI is awarded annually for selected academic further training programs and supports motivated people who have demonstrated extraordinary personal and professional performance during their studies at MCI. The prize of 3,000 euros goes to Julia Sparber-Ablinger this year. With the help of the scholarship she will take the "Management, Psychology & Leadership" certificate course. Mrs. Sparber-Ablinger sees this as an ideal addition to her many years of professional experience as an editor of various media such as the economic magazine eco.nova or the Tiroler Krone as well as a cultural manager. With the course she would like to prepare herself for the future assumption of responsibility in a leadership position.

2017 Raiffeisen International Awards
With the Raiffeisen International Award, RLB supports outstanding MCI students who are planning their foreign semesters outside the EU. Selection criteria for winning the award are the past career, professional objectives and added value that the selected host university can contribute to the implementation of the professional plans. One scholarship each in the amount of 1,000 euros goes to Franziska Brunner and Claudia Postulka .

• Franziska Brunner, studying in the Food Technology and Nutrition master program, is taking her semester abroad at the National Pingtung University of Science and Technology in Pingtung Country, Taiwan. Ms. Brunner's choice for this prestigious university was particularly due to the country's technological innovation potential as well as the opportunity to acquire a better understanding of the local culture and language. The South Tyrolean is looking forward to her professional development in the areas of product development and quality assurance in an international company, which is why she is looking forward to expanding her intercultural skills with this stay abroad.
• Claudia Postulka, studying in the Management, Communication & IT master program, will spend her semester abroad at the Universidad Anáhuac Mayab in Mérida, Mexico. Her choice was due to the excellent reputation and the high academic standards at this university. In the course of her semester abroad, Ms Postulka also wants to improve her language skills in Spanish - the lectures will take place in the language of the country - and to conduct research for her forthcoming master thesis in the area of "Artificial Intelligence" (AI).

The Tyrolean Raiffeisen banks and the Entrepreneurial School® congratulate the prizewinners and wish them all the best for their studies (abroad) and further professional development.

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