Friedrich Flick Promotion Foundation
LEHR'HER: Step by step into your professional future together
LEHR’HER is an innovative offer for teenagers and young adults in Graz and the Graz area that supports young people and companies on their way to regular apprenticeships and beyond. LEHR’HER supports the challenge of finding apprenticeships, networking between companies and apprentices and overcoming possible difficulties during the apprenticeship in a professional and needs-oriented manner.
EFA – European Forum Alpbach
The European Forum Alpbach (EFA) was founded in 1945 with a dream – the dream of the future of Europe. The founders agreed on their vision: to stand together against National Socialism and Communism, to realize the dream of democracy, freedom, peace and prosperity, and to promote science and education. They decided to meet in Alpbach for a few weeks every year and discuss their dreams and – if they agreed – make these dreams a reality.
Biomass technologies for negative greenhouse gas emissions University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU) Vienna / Tobias Pröll
The climate crisis requires rapid action. Fossils must be replaced by renewable energy sources. In addition, the removal of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) from the short-term carbon cycle is necessary to stabilize the climate. One such negative emission technology (NET), which works comparatively energy-efficiently, is the capture of biogenic CO 2 in the course of the energetic use of sustainably produced biomass and the subsequent storage in suitable geological storage sites or long-lasting products.
The green plants bind CO 2 in the form of biomass during growth . When used for energy, gaseous CO 2 is produced . The technology investigated in the project provides a concentrated CO 2 stream without significant energy expenditure, which can turn biomass cogeneration plants into systems with negative greenhouse gas emissions.
Mark Anderson / Grégoire Courtine Wyss Center for Bio and Neuroengineering, Spinal Cord Repair, Geneva, Switzerland
Biological and technological recovery strategies
Problem: In adults, the spinal cord cannot regenerate
Point of attack: Combination of three successive mechanisms
Objective: Improve functional recovery through rehabilitation training and electrical epidural stimulation
Karen Minassian / Romana Höftberger Medical University of Vienna, Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Vienna, Austria
The human central pattern generator for locomotion: identification of key neurons, expression of monoaminergic receptors, and structural plasticity
Problem: Nerve networks in the spinal cord independently coordinate complex movement sequences for locomotion
Point of attack: Evidence of these structures in humans for the first time
Objective: To create a map of the human spinal cord
The seventh year of the Endowed Visiting Professorship of Financial History at the Goethe University Frankfurt
Eugene N. White, Distinguished Professor of Economics at Rutgers University, visited the House of Finance in the summer semester of 2023 as the seventh guest as part of the endowed guest professorship in “Financial History” at Goethe University made possible by Bankhaus Metzler and the Friedrich Flick Promotion Foundation.
The sixth year of the Endowed Visiting Professorship of Financial History at the Goethe University Frankfurt
New impulses for financial history research and teaching in Germany with Prof. Catherine R. Schenk in the summer semester of 2022
Due to the pandemic, the guest professorship of the scientist who teaches at Oxford University at the House of Finance at Goethe University Frankfurt was postponed twice. But the two founders of the initiative, the Friedrich Flick Promotion Foundation and Bankhaus Metzler, remained committed to the project, knowing full well that long-term financial research is more urgent than ever in the current times of crisis.
Pocket ultrasound devices for training the next generation of doctors
Ultrasound has been of great importance as a radiation-free type of imaging for many decades. However, due to technical progress in the production of ultrasound devices, they are becoming smaller and smaller while still offering ever-improving image quality and resolution.
The current generation of mobile pocket devices allow a completely new application option: not only can sound be used stationary in specially equipped examination rooms. Rather, these devices are even displacing the decades-old symbol of the medical profession, the stethoscope, from its place in the context of clinical examination, or at least are seen as similarly important in complementing it. Important diagnostic questions can now be answered immediately with the greatest degree of certainty, be it during morning rounds, at the family doctor’s office, during an operation or in emergency medicine.
WoertherSee Classics Festival
The Austrian Gustav Mahler Association is dedicated to cultivating the works of Gustav Mahler and his contemporaries in order to show the interplay of the compositional contrasts of late romanticism and modernism. The ÖGMV promotes and organizes concerts and lectures on this topic, produces sound and video recordings and has been organizing the WoertherSee Classics Festival since 2002. This is also about the intercultural promotion of artists from the entire Alps-Adriatic region and the maintenance of the common Central European musical tradition.
The Vienna Jeunesse Orchestra is…
a forum for pre-professional young musicians
The Austrian nationwide youth symphony orchestra organizes several work phases every year with subsequent concerts and tours. Participation in the WJO is an important supplement to training at music universities and conservatories for young musicians aged 16 to 26 and offers valuable orchestral experience for their musical career