Corona-Update for Lecturers

Distance Learning, laboratory practice/internship, examinations, room usage in TISS and more. The dramatic increase in the number of Covid-19 infections has made a new "quasi-lockdown" necessary for many areas of public life. As a result of the professional approach taken by the universities in recent months, the legally responsible authorities have once again excluded universities and colleges from the scope of the above-mentioned regulation. At the same time, the government leadership has rightly made the political claim that the universities and colleges should switch over to distance learning. The reason for this is the sharp rise in the number of infections in the age groups of 20 to 30-year-olds - i.e. the majority of the student population. There is an urgent higher education policy appeal to operationalise an extensive switch to distance learning and a reduction of presence teaching as far as possible - in those areas where this is possible in a sensible way. What does this mean for TU Wien?.