Being part of students' further development

She not only has the technical expertise and years of practical experience in project and process management, but also the knowledge of what it means to study while working.

Her own academic path began relatively late. The trained carpenter worked at Leiner Kika for many years, first in furnishing consulting and soon in the IT/organisation department and as founder and team leader of the project and process management office at the headquarters in St. Pölten. She realised that she wanted to "underpin" her practical knowledge with the necessary theory.

At the age of 36, she began studying for a Bachelor's degree in IT Infrastructure Management at the Burgenland University of Applied Sciences in Eisenstadt, followed by two Master's programmes in Business Process Engineering & Management and E-Learning and Knowledge Management. For seven years, she studied part-time at weekends - in addition to her commuter life and full-time job.

She began teaching project and process management at the university during her final Master's degree programme. She has been a full-time university lecturer since 2022 and has felt at home from the very beginning.

She was already part of the development team for the new Bachelor's degree programme in Business Informatics. "Right from the start, we had a clear idea of how we wanted to design the new degree programme. We are clearly different from other programmes that simply combine computer science with business. We don't have pure business courses and, on the other hand, pure computer science courses. We incorporate the computer science content directly into the business courses and vice versa. This is definitely a unique selling point for our degree programme."

Who are the people who have signed up for the new degree programme? "It's mainly people who want to complete a Bachelor's degree course that doesn't yet specialise and provides them with a broad foundation." The content ranges from infrastructure and network technologies to project management. In addition to specialist knowledge and a generalist view, students also develop the social skills needed to communicate with users or other sectors. The first-year students are eagerly awaiting the start of the programme. And what is the programme director already looking forward to?