“Dream job technology” inspired 2200 students

Workshops, campus tours and an insight into the world of technology: 2,200 students and their teachers were offered all of this from Monday to Wednesday at the Wels and Hagenberg universities of applied sciences.

The fair “Dream job technology” is organized every year together with the Linz Kepler University. This year, the Wels University of Applied Sciences and the Hagenberg University of Applied Sciences presented the range of technical courses at Upper Austria’s universities.

New courses discovered

“Some workshops could have been even longer”, said a student of the BRG Hamerlingstraße in Linz, who attended the FH Hagenberg. Above all, the youngster liked the opportunity to try something out for himself. But the visit was not just for the students “Dream job technology” exciting: “You learn about courses that you didn’t know about”, said a teacher, impressed by the Wels campus. She had traveled with her class from Vöcklabruck on a bus organized by the FH.

The professors were given the opportunity to network at the teachers’ reception. As a partner of the Welser Campus, the Sparkasse Oberösterreich was also on site: “The trade fair once again provided an insight into the diversity of technology with the aim of awakening enthusiasm for technical professions among schoolchildren. Because the country needs innovative, creative minds”said CEO Maximilian Pointner.