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© FH OÖ, Smetana GUIDE FOR INCOMING STUDENTS School of Management Steyr Campus www.fh-ooe.at/campus-steyr Contents 3 Reach Higher. » Student Prices for Sports Facilities, Cultural Activities & Public Transport » The University of Applied Sciences Upper » Cultural Events & Activities in Steyr Austria » Free Time Activities in Upper Austria » Austria » Others » Upper Austria » Further Links in Austria 4 Life as an International Student 14 Dos and Don’ts in Austria » General Information about Steyr 15 Essential Information » Industry and Research » Steyr Campus » Formalities in Austria » The Three Key Competences » Registration with the Local Authorities » The Structure of our » Confirmation of Registration Degree Programmes » Climate and Clothing » Currency » Living Costs in Steyr 6 Our Degree Programmes » Banking Hours » Credit Cards » Bachelor’s Degree Programmes » Medical Services and Pharmacies » Master’s Degree Programmes » Health Insurance Coverage » Emergency Numbers » Non-Emergency Medical Treatment 8 Internationalisation » Post Offices / Telecommunications » Public Transport » Orientation Programme » Getting to Steyr » International Week » Infrastructure » International Fair » Important Vocabulary » Global Management Summer School » Grading System » Arrival Dates 18 Services and Facilities » ECTS » Internet and Intranet » Library 10 Academic Information » Print Account » Disabled Access » Academic Calendar » ESN – Erasmus Student Network » Types of Classes » Accommodation » Attendance Policy » Examinations » Survival German for Student Life 19 International Degree Seeking Student 12 Events / Free Time Activities » Double Degrees » Degree Programmes » A Guide for Free Time Activities in Steyr » Activities offered by the ÖH-Student Council » Activities offered by the FH Sports Club 2 3 Reach Higher. The University of Applied Austria Sciences Upper Austria Austria is a beautiful country with a great cultural (FH Upper Austria) heritage, located in the heart of Europe. It is the home of Mozart, Klimt, Freud, and ’The Sound of Music‘. Austria’s snow-capped mountains, The University of Applied Sciences Upper Aus- crystal clear lakes and rivers and historic cities tria is the largest university of applied sciences like Vienna and Salzburg attract tourists from in Austria and is an integral part of the tertiary all over the world. The economy is very much education system. The organisation is defined export-orientated and the standard of living is by the requirements of regional employment high. The national language is German, but most and research needs. Four locations in Upper people speak some English. Austria’s central area offer innovative and inter- disciplinary academic degrees, each with a different focus. Upper Austria » School of Informatics, Communications and The state of Upper Austria is located in the Media – Hagenberg Campus northern part of Austria and combines natural » School of Medical Engineering and Applied beauty with a thriv-ing economy. Upper Austria Social Sciences – Linz Campus is one of Europe’s leading regions in education, » School of Management – Steyr Campus technology and employment; in fact, about 25% 58° 48° 66° Arctic Circle 32° 24° 74° 16° 8° 0° 8° 16° 24° 32° 40° 48°74° 56° 64° Arctic Circle 66° 80° 58° 88° » School of Engineering – Wels Campus of Austria’s total exports originate here. 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Sankt-Peterburg Magnitogorsk Oslo Stockholm Kazan A Tallinn Sciences Upper Austria has a system of purely SCOTLAND E ga ak ESTONIA Vol NORTH rr S ge KAZAKHSTAN 72° Edinburgh Ska Gˆteborg Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees. GraduatesOC ofEA N C LATVIA Belfast SEA I Riga Samara IRELAND DENMARK T Moscow most of our programmes are awarded the aca- L Dublin Copenhagen A LITHUANIA ° B Vilnius ríy a 42 Syda demic degree ’Bachelor‘ before embarking on ENGLAND RUSSIA Ur 42° WALES Minsk Do al a ° Cardiff NETHERLANDS n 32 BELARUS sn ARAL further study for the degree of ’Master‘. London The Hague Pripyat Berlin Warsaw De SEA BELGIUM Brussels POLAND UZBEKISTAN GERMANY Kiev Vol Se Paris Luxembourg ga in Prague e UKRAINE Dn Loire LUXEMBOURG CZECH REP. C Dn ep A estr r u SLOVAKIA R C na P Do A MOLDOVA A FRANCE VViiennaenna Bratislava T Bay of H Pr Kishinev S Bern Budapest I ut P Bi scay A TURKMENISTAN 64° SWITZERLAND S N I A P HUNGARY S Odessa N e Ljubljana C A U C Bilbao MASSI F L A S U S S Ashkhabad CENTRAL Ùn SLOVENIA CROATIA ROMANIA E A Sevastopolí A Rh Po Bucharest GEORGIA Tbilisi Baku 34° Porto Duer BOSNIA- Belgrade S o N Andorra la Vella Monaco San Marino HERZEGOVINA BLACK SEA AZERBAIJAN I A PORTUGAL Sarajevo Yerevan T ° Ta Madrid 34 jo ANDORRA Co rsica BULGARIA ARMENIA N Lisbon Barcelona ITALY YUGOSLAVIA Sofiya U ° O 24 M Rome Skopje Z SPAIN Tirane Istanbul R Sardinia MACEDONIA ELBU Ankara L.Van MADEIRA IS. Sevilla ALBANIA Tehran BALEARIC IS. TURKEY Malaga I St rait of Gi braltar M GREECE R Gibraltar E D A Algiers I Si cily L Ti Z T Izmir A G g AG IRAN E Athens D ris R Rabat T O R O S OS Casablanca R M R OU Tunis A SYRIA E Baghdad N CANARY IS. MOROCCO u p TA Marrakech N Nicosia hra IN R I E N E t es S S A H A MALTA CYPRUS Beirut Las Palmas L A S A 26° A S A T N Damascus IRAQ Al Basrah T L TUNISIA S Cr ete LEBANON T A E A A U 26° H Tripoli KUWAIT Al Kuwayt El Aaiun Jerusalem Amman P ISRAEL e r Gulf of Benghazi JORDAN s i a n G u l f WESTERN Sir te Alexandria ALGERIA Cairo Abu Dhabi SAHARA Suez QATAR SAUDI ARABIA UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 56° 2 LIBYA EGYPT 3 Ni RED Riyadh 16° MAURITANIA l e SEA 8° 0° 8° 16° 24° 32° 40° 48° 0 500 1000 1500 Miles 0 500 1000 1500 2000 Kilometres Life as an International Student in Austria Congratulations on your decision to embark on one of life’s great adventures: a period of residence and study abroad. We hope that your stay here will be a wonderful, unforgettable experience for you. International exchange students all over the world usually experience different phases of adjustment during their stay abroad. At first you will probably see everything through the eyes of a tourist. Everything is new and exotic. After this stage you get down to the business of living your everyday life, which for some people is accompanied by a sense of disorien- tation or culture shock. This is a quite natural phenomenon when someone is in completely unfamiliar surroundings where everything is new. If this affects you, please do not hesitate to speak to one of the staff involved in internationalisation. We have been through this ourselves and will be more than willing to listen and talk with you about it. You may also find it helpful to bear in mind that this is a phase that will pass and in the meantime try to keep an open mind and seek contact with other people. General Information about Steyr partner institutions bear witness. For further information on the attractions of Steyr and Upper Few Austrian cities are as delightful as the historic Austria, please see the brochures enclosed with city of Steyr, which still boasts an almost com- our Welcome Package and the Steyr Tourist In- pletely intact medieval centre. Nearly all of the formation website: www.steyr.at, www.tiscover.at old town has been preserved in its original glory; indeed, Steyr’s main square is one of the most beautiful in Europe. Most of these buildings were Industry and Research built during the Gothic period and ’modernised‘ in the Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo periods. Several important international companies have plants in and around Steyr, BMW Motors being The local economy has always been based on the most famous one. It is a little known fact trade and the processing of iron and steel, which beyond Austria’s borders that the engines for may explain why BMW, MAN and SKF Bearings BMW’s diesel cars are primarily manufactured in chose to locate in Steyr. Steyr Campus, which Steyr. Another important company in Steyr is the was founded in 1995, works together closely with Swedish bearing manufacturer SKF, which is, like these and other companies in the area, indeed a BMW, one of the most important industrial part- significant number of courses are taught by mana- ners of the University of Applied Sciences Upper gers from such international companies. Naturally, Austria, Steyr Campus. A third partner of Steyr it was in close co-operation with these and other Campus is the machinery construction company international enterprises located in Upper Austria GFM. Other major companies in Steyr are Eckelt that our degree programmes were developed.