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From Timber to Timbre
In a fast-paced, digital world, Vienna’s master instrument makers seem to live a time apart.
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What Makes a City “Smart”?
Digital, green, innovative – what's the real deal behind the buzzwords?
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Austria’s Hidden Champions
Between 175 and 200 Austrian companies are considered to be hidden champions. That’s the highest density per capita in the world. These companies are ...
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Banking for the People
In the first installment of our new series of how expats built their careers in Vienna, we talked to Maurizio Poletto, the designer behind E...
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The Past as Future for Music in Vienna
In Japan, Vienna is the Ongaku no Miyako, “the capital of music,” and that’s where Mayu Kotari wanted to be. A pianist from Tokyo, Kotari has been liv...
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Buy me a Forest
It’s not easy to buy woodlands in Austria. You need passion, roots in the local area and many millions.
Cord Prinzhorn, the chief executive officer o...
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The Boards that Mean Vienna’s World
Pursuing a career in acting, like most fields, requires perseverance and a strong belief in yourselfHave you ever wondered what it takes to beco...
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How to… Land Your Dream Job in Vienna
An employment consultant with 20 years’ experience has some advice for landing your dream job in Vienna.Want to work in Vienna? Finding a job as...
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Why You Should Study Tourism & Hospitality in Austria
Planning a new career? The tourism and hospitality sector is booming and offers a wide variety of options.Trying to push past hordes of tourists...
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The Flow of Commerce | How the Danube Energizes Austria’s Economy
The Danube powers many an industry on its way to the Black Sea, from hydropower to high-volume logisticsFlowing through 10 countries – from the ...
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Let This Former Opera Singer Help You Find a New Career
Is a midcareer transition madness? It might change your life for the good.Abandoning a 10-year career as an opera singer in Australia to reinven...
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Reinventing Veltliner | Are Austrian Wines Ready for the Global Stage?
From the Wachau’s Grüner Veltliner to Vienna’s Gemischter Satz, Austrian wines have reinvented themselves onto the global stage.In the theater o...
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What You Need to Know to Get a Job at the United Nations
It often seems impossible for an outsider to get a job at the UN. But is it really?“No,” said Linda Starodub, who recently retired from 30 plus ye...
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Commuting 2.0 | Comparing Solutions That Work for You
New modes of transport are trying to change the way we travel. But are they really a match for Austria’s time-tested infrastructure?Austria’s trai...
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Advertorial | Democratizing the Financial Markets
Everyone’s talking about blockchain – that mysterious new technology inherently linked to cryptocurrencies. The more it seeps into the public debate, ...
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Austrian Politics is Late to the Digital Revolution and it’s Changed the Election Game
Austrian politics is late to the digital revolution. Past electoral campaigns have typically focused on billboards and traditional media. But in the 2...
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Advertorial | MyHive – What if you Could Take Care of all Your Errands While at the Office?
Steel, glass, concrete and marble.The design of most modern office buildings – while elegant and sophisticated – can feel cold and impersonal. R...
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Lobmeyr’s Innovations are in Every Household, you Just Don’t Know it
What would Vienna’s palaces be without their brilliant chandeliers, gleaming mirrors and fine crystal glasses?Uniting craftsmanship and innova...
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Launching pad: Vienna’s Rise as a hub for Founding Startups
Vienna has long been a link between East and West. As more CEE entrepreneurs seek access to Western markets and capital, can Vienna offer them what th...
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Why Americans Envy Austria: From Bildungskarenz to Paid Sick Leave
Austrians enjoy generous worker benefits – hard to imagine for Americans, who remain ambitious and optimistic, a spirit that is harder to find...
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Viennese Design Firm Wideshot Makes big in Hollywood
Astonishing spoiled moviegoers is no small task. Marrying virtual reality with architecture, a Viennese company is dazzling audiencesBy Susanne ...
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Advertorial | Online Banking in Austria and how big Players can Compete with Fintech
We asked board member Thomas Schaufler about designing Erste Bank’s online banking platform GeorgeIn Austria, banking has not always moved with ...
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As Musicians Traverse the Globe, the new Startup Music Traveler Helps Them do it
A new startup called Music Traveler – like an Airbnb for musicians – helps music professionals find space to practice while they’re on the road....
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Get Ready for the Freestyle Explosion That is Masters of Dirt
So what's wrong with dirty money? Founder Georg Fechter has perfected the art of banking on fuel, fire and adrenaline.Motors roar, flames blaz...
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Big Pharma and the Austrian Economy
Pharma's Market: The pharmaceutical industry has played an important role in Austria’s economic growth. But the challenge remains to find a balance be...
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Vienna’s Coworking Spaces
The number of coworking spaces in Vienna is growing. Is sharing an office with strangers the new normal?
In 2017 more than a million people will choo...
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The Undeclared Economy
How does Austria deal with Europe’s estimated €1 trillion shadow economy of black-market crime, petty tax evasion and corporate profit shifting?...
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Whose Luxury is it Anyway?
Two Viennese entrepreneurs with very different paths to success embody the city’s attitude towards luxuryIf someone pointed a gun at my head and...
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I, Robot Worker
We all fear that our jobs will eventually be automated. But cheer up! Where one job dies, another rises from the ashesImagine a world where writ...
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Leading the Crazy Ones
The creative industries need to be ever-fresh. Michael Conrad of the Berlin School of Creative Leadership talks about what it takes to create like a b...
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The Cooperative City
Smart cities need smart citizens. A growing movement of initiatives and startups, harnessing social media and using top-notch technology, aims to give...
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Business & Career: Beyond the White Cube
How young, savvy art producers bring new talent directly to the public by exploiting new spaces, technology and social media, thereby sidestepping the...
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Business & Career: We Are What We Eat
As industrial farming comes under attack, Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) hopes to change the gameRevolution is the new black. Every pilla...
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Pioneers Festival 2016 Live
This year's 5th Anniversary Edition of the Pioneers Festival is taking place at the Hofburg on the 24 & 25 of May.Featuring 5 stages with over...
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Business & Career: Austrian Startup Founders and Their Heroes
We asked twelve Austrian founders to pick their local hero from the startup ecosystemGiven how recent the startup scene is in Austria, there’s...
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Profiles: The Unicorn Makers
Startups can’t do it on their own. We met some of the people who give Austrian entrepreneurs the support they need, through technical know-how, state ...
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Business & Career: Robotics for Children – Easy as ABC
Viennese startup Robo Technologies turns children, or anyone, into robotics engineersImagine your child playing with blocks, snapping them tog...
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Business & Career: The Sweet Success of Zotter Chocolate
The Austrian chocolate maker Zotter puts social responsibility before maximum return and demonstrates that short-term profits and sustainable long-ter...
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Business & Career: The Oil of the 21st Century
It took four years for the EU’s twenty-eight member states to pass the new law on data protection. Now companies are bracing themselves for high stake...
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Business & Career: Behind the Gallery Walls
In staging their signature shows, Vienna’s art exhibitors navigate an opaque world filled with secretive collectors, oligarchs and layers of fancy law...
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How to Buy Property in Vienna as a Foreigner
Real estate can be tricky, but with patience, perseverance and a little luck, you'll own your own place in ViennaIn many countries, buying your ...
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Business & Career: Job-Sharing at the Top
Who says what is full time or not? Generational trends are restructuring the workplace with some unexpected resultsSophie Martinetz was in her e...
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In Pursuit of Purpose: Ali Mahlodji
Arriving in Austria as a refugee, Ali Mahlodji lived in 13 apartments before he was 10 years old, dropped out of school at 18 and worked over 40 jobs ...
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Startups: Do You Have it in You?
AustrianStartups' Daniel Cronin on what it takes to be an entrepreneur.Recently, I’ve noticed that lots of young founders confuse entrepreneuria...
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Seven tips to help you survive the MA35
If you want to become a Vienna resident all roads lead to the Municipal Department 35 - Immigration and Citizenship, a.k.a. the MA 35. They are the g...
