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Annual Report 2018 Presented by the Austrian Board of Trustees of the Austrian Member Universities Chair: o.Univ.-Prof. Dr. Dr.h.c. A Min Tjoa ASEA-UNINET - Annual Report Austrian Board of Trustees 2018 - Page 2 Table of contents Page Preface 05 Scholarships awarded by ASEA-UNINET 2018 07 Reports of the ASEA-UNINET Austrian Member Universities: University of Innsbruck 11 University of Vienna 29 University of Graz 75 Danube University Krems 106 Johannes Kepler University Linz 115 University of Salzburg 119 Vienna University of Technology 122 Graz University of Technology 176 University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna 203 Vienna University of Economics and Business 228 Montanuniversität Leoben 234 University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna 238 University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna 242 University of Applied Arts Vienna 274 Mozarteum University Salzburg 278 University of Music and Performing Arts Graz 279 Medical University of Graz 285 Medical University of Innsbruck 288 Medical University of Vienna 306 Reports on SP 24 Research Mobilities in 2018 307 Reports on Bernd Rode Award 2017 Mobilities in 2018 355 Appendix: Approved ASEA-UNINET Project Proposals 2018 375 SP24 Mobilities 2018 390 Bernd Rode Award 2017 – Winners 391 Bernd Rode Award 2019 – Winners (Submission in 2018) 392 ASEA-UNINET - Annual Report Austrian Board of Trustees 2018 - Page 3 ASEA-UNINET - Annual Report Austrian Board of Trustees 2018 - Page 4 Preface by the Austrian National Coordinator Prof. Dr. A Min Tjoa 2018 was another very successful year for ASEA-UNINET! More than hundred projects and events were accomplished by the joint efforts of the Austrian ASEA-UNINET member universities with their Asian partners. In 2018 for the third time, the Bernd Rode Award was announced in the three categories: Junior Researcher, Senior Researcher and Project Excellence. The submissions convincingly prove the many superb cooperation endeavours between Austrian and Asian member universities. The large number and high quality of the submissions reveal that scientific cooperation within the network has strongly increased and steadily and significantly gained growing importance. The membership applications from four renowned universities to join ASEA-UNINET [ namely University Klagenfurt (Austria), Hanoi Academy of Theatre and Cinema (Vietnam), Universiti Sains Malaysia (Malaysia) and Jönköping University (Sweden)], are another indicator for the immense attractiveness of the network. At the ASEA-UNINET 2017 Plenary Meeting in Graz the network declared the “United Nations Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development” as a major focus for the networks scientific cooperation. As a consequence soon thereafter the ASEA-UNINET “Sustainability Issues Workshop” was held in Kuala Lumpur in August 2018 . The primary goal of this workshop was to deepen research cooperation on SDGs and to trigger novel interdisciplinary North-South-South cooperation in the sake of the Agenda 2030. The start of our digital magazine “ASEA-UNINET Sustainability News” is another living testimony reflecting the many activities of our member universities in teaching and research on sustainability issues. We are extremely proud that Weena Gera who was hosted 2016/2017 by ASEA-UNINET at WU Vienna and who was one of the initiators of the sustainability workshop at the ASEA-UNINET Plenary Meeting in Graz, has received the prestigious “Gro Brundlandt Award 2018 for Women in Sustainable Development”. We are very indebted to all supporters of our network for the successful academic cooperation in the past year. In the first place, we want to mention the continuous support of the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research. Our special thanks go to those personalities of this Ministry and the OeAD, who have been enduringly committed to the goals of ASEA-UNINET. I would like to cordially thank all members of the Austrian ASEA-UNINET board (“Kuratorium”) for their initiatives, hard work, commitment and excellent cooperation. Finally yet importantly, we would like to thank all staff members of the ASEA-UNINET office, who are constantly striving to ensure that the administration of our projects succeeds as smoothly as possible. ASEA-UNINET - Annual Report Austrian Board of Trustees 2018 - Page 5 ASEA-UNINET - Annual Report Austrian Board of Trustees 2018 - Page 6 Scholarships awarded by ASEA-UNINET 2018 The table below lists the scholarships by category to show the source of funding. A. Science & Technology Grants for South East Asia (TSA Grants) 7 researchers used a grant within the framework of TSA Grants in Austria (Period: 1.1.2018 – 31.12.2018, including extensions of scholarships awarded in previous years): Indonesia 3 Ph.D. Thailand 1 Ph.D. Vietnam 3 Ph.D. B. Ernst-Mach-Grant – ASEA-UNINET Indonesia 10 Ph.D., 1 Post-Doc Thailand 7 Ph.D., 9 Post-Doc, 4 music grants Vietnam 7 Ph.D., 7 Post-Doc, 1 music grant Philippines 3 Ph.D. C. ASEA-UNINET – Project funding (SP24) Including guest residences (1-3 months) within the framework of university projects Indonesia 1 grant Thailand 12 grants Vietnam 3 grants Malaysia 1 grant Austria 2 grants (outgoing) D. Other grants managed by ASEA-UNINET The Higher Education Commission Pakistan funded in May 2018 41 Ph.D. grants in Austria. In October 2018 the number dropped to 23 scholarship holders from Pakistan. ASEA-UNINET - Annual Report Austrian Board of Trustees 2018 - Page 7 ASEA-UNINET - Annual Report Austrian Board of Trustees 2018 - Page 8 Reports of the ASEA-UNINET Austrian Member Universities ASEA-UNINET - Annual Report Austrian Board of Trustees 2018 - Page 9 ASEA-UNINET - Annual Report Austrian Board of Trustees 2018 - Page 10 Bringing Behavioral and Experimental Finance-Expertise to Thailand 2018 Applicant Juergen Huber (e-mail: [email protected]) is head of the Department of Banking and Finance at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, and was until 2017 general manager of the Society for Experimental Finance, which he co-founded, and co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance. He studied at Tulane University and University of Innsbruck and was visiting professor at Yale University, University of Vienna, and Universities in Thailand, Vietnam and Indonesia. At the core of his research is behavioral and experimental finance. Project Partner Abroad Tanakorn Likitapiwat (e-mail: [email protected]) is Lecturer in Finance and the Faculty of Commerce and Accountancy, Chulalongkorn University since 2010. After completing his BA in Electrical Engineering (1996) and Master of Business Administration (2004) at Chulalongkorn University he did a PhD in Finance at the University of Memphis, USA which he completed in 2009. His main areas of interest are investment, market microstructure, and Behavioral Finance. Report After visits in December 2015, July 2016 and July 2017 I spent the week July 12th to 17th 2018 at Chulalongkorn Business School (CBS) to strengthen the ties between University of Innsbruck and CBS through (1) teaching, (2) a research seminar, (3) joint research, and (4) student exchange. Let me briefly state what activities were set in each of the four fields. Ad (1) teaching: The Department of Finance at the University of Innsbruck has one of the leading groups in the fields of behavioral and experimental finance. We are happy to share this expertise and our experiences, e.g. in experimental research and I thus agreed to give a course on “Foundations of Behavioral Finance” at CBS. The six-day course was attended by 42 ASEA-UNINET - Annual Report Austrian Board of Trustees 2018 - Page 11 students, including nine visitors from Vietnam. During the class we covered several of the most important fields of Behavioral finance, and three times we went to the CBS FinLab where we ran experiments on the computers. For example, I had programmed an artificial stock market and students bought different information levels (the better the information the more expensive) and then traded on a continuous-double auction market. This experience was quite instructive for students who experienced trading as in a real stock market and who participated lively. I was also informed by colleagues from CBS that students value these experiences very highly. Ad (2) research seminar: CBS asked me to give a research seminar, which I did on July 14th on the topic “What Drives Risk Perception? A Global Survey With Financial Professionals and Laymen”. There were about 40 students, mostly freshmen, and researchers in the seminar and we had an interesting and very interactive time together, as the audience was very eager to learn about the topic and methodology used. Ad (3) joint research: the past two years Dr. Tanakorn Likitapiwat ([email protected]) from the Business School of Chulalongkorn University was in the research seminar I gave then and he was very eager to learn how to conduct experiments in finance to introduce and help advance this methodology in Thailand. Experiments are well-suited to explore the real behavior of people, rather than abstractly modelling it in equations and formulae. Dr. Tanakorn then read some of my (and other people’s) papers and we started to design an experiment to elicit the risk and loss preferences of people, namely financial professionals and the general population in Thailand. Recently Dr. Likitapiwat has accepted to supervise a PhD-candidate, Ms. Som Patsi ([email protected]), who will also work in this field. The three of us met during my stay to discuss the project. The design was finished last year and the data collection (online experiments) have been almost finished. As Dr. Tanakorn has recently become a father and as his workload is very high, progress is not very fast, but we move on step by step. Ad (4) student exchange: The school of management of the university of Innsbruck and Chulalongkorn Business School (CBS) have in 2017 signed a separate MOU under the Umbrella Agreement of ASEA-UNINET to strengthen the bond between the two schools.