IT:U – Austria’s first interdisciplinary university merging technology, hands-on learning, and global problem solving
IT:U Interdisciplinary Transformation University Austria, offers a hands-on, project-based education where students from diverse backgrounds use technology like AI and robotics to solve real-world challenges. Committed to inclusion and innovation, IT:U promotes lifelong learning and sustainable development, empowering students to make a positive impact globally.
Driving digital transformation at IT:U
IT:U Interdisciplinary Transformation University Austria is one of the first public universities in Europe dedicated to digitalization and digital transformation. On our campus in Linz, Austria, we offer our students a project-based and inclusive approach to technical education.
Students from a wide range of disciplines learn digital skills they can use in their field to tackle global challenges. The rapid acceleration of climate change and recent pandemic outbreaks are only two major examples out of a wide range of intensive or disruptive changes. At our digital transformation university, we empower our students to be the interdisciplinary, computationally empowered transformers of tomorrow.
The three pillars of IT:U Interdisciplinary Transformation University Austria
Digital
transformation
Digitalization accelerates the adoption of data-driven methods and artificial intelligence. This drives the transformation of science, economy, and societies on a global scale.
New
Learning
We provide an innovative way of making our students digitalization-savvy, no matter which country or field they come from. The goal is to collaborate across cultural and disciplinary boundaries.
Inter
Disciplinary
Some of the biggest scientific challenges today are cross-disciplinary. At IT:U Interdisciplinary Transformation University Austria, we teach the skills required for interdisciplinary collaboration.
Learn and research things that matter
Interdisciplinary learning at our digital transformation university
From climate change to public health, our global community faces complex challenges. However, these challenges also open up opportunities and possibilities. Science is the key to creating sustainable solutions. To be successful in finding these solutions, scientists have to work together across disciplines and embrace computational methods.
Interdisciplinary efforts and digitalization are necessary for a global transformation. IT:U Interdisciplinary Transformation University Austria integrates these approaches into innovative learning methods and follows an ongoing process to learn from international examples and global collaborations.
We research, teach, and learn things that matter – to you and to the world. Our digital transformation university is part of a global movement towards interdisciplinary research and project-based learning that will stretch in its final expansion from the US to Asia, and from Scandinavia to emerging universities in the UK.
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© Lunghammer – TU Graz“The global digital transformation process poses entirely new challenges for humanity. Meeting these challenges, not only reactively but also in a preventative and scientific manner, is an absolute necessity. Therefore, IT:U Interdisciplinary Transformation University Austria is nothing short of an international flagship project.”Claudia von der Linden, Head of Founding Convent, IT:U
© fotokerschi – IT:U“We live in a time where digitization is advancing globally inexorably, permeating almost every aspect of our daily lives and professional activities. We want to seize digital transformation as an opportunity and actively participate in it to continue being at the forefront of international competition as a hub for economy and education. At IT:U Interdisciplinary Transformation University Austria, we are laying a solid foundation for this endeavor by providing space for digitization in science and art and educating experts who actively and creatively shape digital transformation.”Martin Polaschek, Austrian Federal Minister of Education, Science and Research
© Antje Wolm – IT:U“Envision this: A university specifically dedicated to digital transformation, based on interdisciplinary research and project-based learning, supported by and advancing digital technologies. A university without disciplinary and institutional borders. A technical university attracting students who have not studied technology for their first degrees, but who have come to appreciate computer science to solve problems close to their hearts. A technical university for and with women, with a diverse culture, and openness to embrace new approaches. Get ready to transform our world!”Stefanie Lindstaedt, Founding President, IT:U