HOW TO APPLY TO THE 2011 SALZBURG ACADEMY

 Who comes to the Academy?

From 2007-2011, over 250 students from five continents and 50 faculty and deans from 21 universities have come to Salzburg, Austria to create a global media literacy curriculum of case studies, critical thinking and analysis questions, exercises and assignments and lists of resources. 

The 2012 Academy will run from 22 July - 11 August.

For three weeks every summer, students  live and work in residence at the beautifully renovated 17th-century Meierhof building and the world-renowned Schloss Leopoldskron, an 18th-century Rococo palace built by the Prince Archbishop of Salzburg, renovated by Max Reinhardt, the co-founder of the Salzburg Music Festival, and filmed as the home of the von Trapp family in the movie "The Sound of Music."

Academy students and faculty will be provided full board, including buffet-style breakfast, lunch and dinner, as well as coffee/tea breaks.

Who can apply?

Applications for the 2012 Academy are open to students and institutions from all parts of the world. Students should be excited not only about traveling to Salzburg and experiencing Austria's rich history and spectacular cities and mountains, but interested in living and working alongside students from all over the world.

To apply:

Americans who are interested in applying to the Salzburg Academy can find applications and more information on fees and application prodecures by clicking HERE 

International universities that are interested in becoming a partner institution and international students who are interested in applying to the 2011 Academy should contact Dr. Paul Mihailidis:  pmihailidis@salzburgglobal.org.  We welcome all inquires and applications to the Academy program. 

For Americans: 

Why should I apply to the Academy as my Study Aboard program?

Summer study abroad options are ubiquitous these days, but in Austria you may have a real chance to help change the world. 

The Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change is a three-week summer course held just outside the city center of Salzburg, snug up against the northernmost Alps.  The peaceful setting outside the Schloss Leopoldskron belies the beehive of activity going on within.

Take what happened in 2011:  Undergraduate and graduate students from 11 countries on five continents worked with a multi-national faculty on methods to promote global media literacy. Each student produced a lesson plan on a particular topic during the three-week course, under the guidance of his or her faculty instructor.  The completed lesson plans are posted on this site for use by a wide variety of educational institutions around the world, at no charge to them. 

Media Literacy lesson plan topics range from how the world's media have used the term “fundamentalism,” to how bloggers in Cuba have created a pathway for freedom of expression through digital media.  These lesson plans are in use by students, faculties and universities across the globe.

As part of the three-week session, the students created eMONITOR, a daily exercise in newsgathering from a worldwide perspective.  The students culled top stories from sources around the world and then posted them in digest form to the academy’s website in three languages – Chinese, English, and Spanish.

Along with guest speakers from the worlds of journalism and academia, classroom activities were supplemented with screenings of documentary films and side trips to the Austrian Alps and to the World War II Nazi concentration camp at Dachau, Germany.   Students also enjoyed  the concurrent Salzburg Festival, attending free programs in the city at night and having Writer-in-Residence Tom Stoppard take time out to speak to them.