05. January 2022
Dear
university members,
We hope you had a peaceful and relaxing holiday season and a good start to
the new year!
Unfortunately, it is to be expected that the COVID infection situation in Austria
will worsen again in the coming days and weeks. In particular, we have to assume that there will be an increased number of
people who will have to go into quarantine due to the Omikron variant.
Even though we do not
yet know the details of the developments, we would like to use this letter to provide better planning security and to announce
the following binding points for operation until the end of the semester (valid from Monday 10.1.2022):
–
The supervision and completion of final artistic works and their presentation will be made possible on site.
For the examination, it must be ensured that participation of individual commission members (or, depending on the infection
situation, of the entire examination commission) is possible online. The audience will be able to follow the presentation
of the work exclusively online.
– Academic teaching and examinations take place
in online mode.
– The university library is open exclusively to university members.
–
On-site events are not possible.
– To ensure university operations, groups
are to be formed within administrative departments that will not be working on site at the same time.
We
will inform you about further details regarding university operations from Monday, 10.01.2022, after the announcement of the
new federal regulations announced for the next few days.
With best regards
Gerald Bast,
Bernhard Kernegger, Barbara Putz-Plecko, Eva Maria Stadler und Maria Zettler
Rectorate
