Sharing Knowledge
Partnership Opportunities
Benefit from a partnership with the University of Klagenfurt: attract future talent through our career and networking programme, or make use of our collaboration opportunities and research infrastructure to improve your products or services together with the university’s researchers.
Research Collaboration & Commissioned Research
Do you have a research question you would like to explore with the university?
We can help you find the right research partners.
Benefit from the innovative potential and expertise of the University of Klagenfurt’s faculties. Together with our researchers, we can develop tailored projects and deliver them effectively. Let us work with you to develop innovative solutions, pursue applied research and foster valuable knowledge exchange. Through our foundation, you can also support initiatives in a tax-efficient way.
Research Infrastructure
Make use of the University of Klagenfurt’s modern research infrastructure. Alongside Europe’s largest drone hall, the university offers access to a wide range of state-of-the-art facilities to support your research.
Career & Networking Opportunities
Would you like to attract students and alumni as future talent for your organisation?
Through its Career Service and Alumni & Partner Relations, the University of Klagenfurt provides an ideal interface between students, graduates and the business community:
Job Portal & Job Newsletter
The University of Klagenfurt’s job portal gives you direct access to students, graduates and young professionals. Our weekly job newsletter shares vacancies with around 5,000 interested readers. Publish your job advertisements and company profile in the job portal and connect with applicants from across Carinthia.
connect Job and Career Fair
connect is the largest job and career fair in southern Austria. At this major campus event, you can exhibit alongside around 80 other organisations and engage with around 3,000 visitors, including students and graduates.
Interactive! Talents programme
Through the Interactive! Talents programme, we connect top students with companies while the students are still at university. We organise meetings, company visits, workshops and the innovation incubator, where participating students can dedicate themselves to a hands-on project.
#NEXT – Speed Dating for Interns
The #NEXT event supports small companies in Carinthia in their search for committed interns. As in classic speed dating, you present your company and the internship opportunity in a three-minute presentation. Afterwards, you meet motivated students in a series of short one-to-one conversations.
Mentoring Programme: Job Shadowing
Through Job Shadowing, students gain a one-day introduction to your company and everyday working life. The format introduces them to different career paths and helps you build meaningful connections with potential future employees.
Klagenfurt Scholarship
With the Klagenfurt Scholarship, you mentor outstanding Master’s students and work with these talented young people over the two-year scholarship programme through internships, Master’s theses or project work. You award your scholarship for a specific field of study, allowing you to get to know future specialists while they are still studying.
Alumni Card Partners
As a partner of the Alumni Network, you reach a highly valuable audience: our graduates. More than 27,000 alumni are already part of our network, with around 1,000 new graduates joining every year.
As an Alumni Card partner, you can offer our graduates attractive benefits while gaining direct access to a highly qualified target group. The digital Alumni Card provides exclusive discounts and advantages. Use this opportunity to build lasting connections.
Graduation Package
As a partner of the Alumni Network, you reach a highly valuable audience: our graduates. More than 27,000 alumni are already part of our network, with around 1,000 new graduates joining every year.
Join the Graduation Package – presented to graduates as a gift during graduation ceremonies – and create a lasting impression of a truly memorable moment.
Inspire! Lab
Creativity, Ideas and Innovation
The inspire! Lab is designed to foster creativity and entrepreneurial thinking. Here, school pupils and students from Carinthia can help shape the future with their ideas.
Covering around 130 square metres, the inspire! Lab offers space for groups of up to 30 people. The interior can be arranged flexibly, and the furniture and walls are coated with magnetic, writable surfaces, allowing ideas to take shape freely and become part of the space itself.
Partners & Sponsors
The University of Klagenfurt offers a wide range of opportunities and exciting projects to support science, research and education. By supporting us, you invest in the future and help advance academic progress. Whether as a private individual or as a company, you support promising early-career researchers, encourage motivated and talented students, and help fund essential university infrastructure.
Endowed Professorships
Support the future with your endowed professorship
As a partner, you can play an active role in shaping academic development. With an endowed professorship, you make a lasting contribution to research and teaching in a forward-looking field.
Event Sponsorship & Room Sponsorship
Would you like to raise your brand’s profile at the university?
Become an event sponsor or take on a room sponsorship.
Events
Each semester, the university organises major events for prospective and current students. Become a sponsor and position your company in front of high-potential students.
Lecture Theatre and Seminar Room Sponsorship
Imagine your future employees studying in rooms that carry your company’s name. By sponsoring a lecture theatre or seminar room, you can raise your brand’s profile across campus. Use this sponsorship as a brand-building opportunity for your company while supporting our innovative infrastructure. You also benefit from exclusive advertising services.
Contact for Sharing Knowledge
Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Peter Schlögl
Vice-Rector for Transfer, Cooperation and University Lifelong Learning
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