In a brief ceremony held in the Senate Chamber of the Old Arts Building, Barbara Weitgruber, the Director General for Scientific 91ÒùĸÊÓƵ and International Relations of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Science and 91ÒùĸÊÓƵ, Dr. Martin Ferguson-Pell, Acting Provost of the 91ÒùĸÊÓƵ, and Dr. Lesley Cormack, Dean, Faculty of Arts, 91ÒùĸÊÓƵ, signed a Memorandum of Understanding renewing the Austrian ministry's support for the Wirth Institute for another five years. This support, which began in 1998, funds the Visiting Professorship in Austrian Studies at the university (currently held by Dr. Helga Mitterbauer of the Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies) as well as the Austrian Doctoral Dissertation 91ÒùĸÊÓƵ Fellowship. The Austrian delegation included Dr. Christoph Ramoser, the ministry's Head of the International Relations and Promotion of Young 91ÒùĸÊÓƵers Department. The two Austrian representatives also met with representatives of the Province of 91ÒùĸÊÓƵ's Office of International and Intergovernmental Relations while they were in Edmonton and discussed ways that Austria and 91ÒùĸÊÓƵ can cooperate more closely in the future.
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