Siegfried Reich

Generation Innovation

August 5th, 2009

This summer we are hosting a total of 9 students doing internships. The programme is supported by the ministries bmvit and bmukk and is called “generation innovation“.

The themes the students covered includes

• Usability
• Tag Clouds
• Flash Overlays
• geotaging on the iPhone
• Open Street Map Clients
• Rich-Client-Applications

We got some very good feedback by the students. Firstly, the got a completely different view of research and IT; they were exposed to a way of working with a high degree of self-responsibility (which was appreciated very much); and finally, they had fun.

Personally, I believe that the way of opening up research labs to young people means that they get to know what research in practise is; and the researchers themselves are confronted with new (and fresh) ideas and this is of benefit to both sides.

There is a German video available at Salzburg.com.

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