The Unit of Steel Construction and Mixed Building Technology was happy to host Prof. Daniel Rittel from the Technion in Haifa as AIANI-Fellow from 28.01.-12.02.2017. During his stay in Innsbruck, Prof. Rittel held a guest lecture with the title “Adiabatic shear across the scales: the engineer’s perspective”. In addition, Prof. Rittel held a series of private lectures for the staff members of the Steel Construction and Mixed Building Technology department about the failure of materials. Besides the lectures, topics including fatigue, fracture and general failure analysis were the subject of daily discussions.
Being Prof. Rittel’s first visit to Innsbruck, the working group was happy to show him the beauty of Innsbruck including a visit to the Seegrube and an introduction to Austrian winter sport activities.
As for the near future, the working group is looking forward to the second part of Prof. Rittel's visit, when he will join the department again for two weeks. Furthermore, one of the working group’s PhD students is planning to visit Prof. Rittel’s Laboratory for a research stay soon.

Romain Jammal-Abboud from the School of Social Work at Haifa University was an AIANI-Fellow at the Department of Educational Science at the University of Innsbruck. She was invited by Prof. Alfred Berger to work on a joint project and to hold a guest lecture on the topic „Between Individualism and Collectivism: Guiding Arab Social Workers in Israel through the Professional Socialization Process”. Ms. Jammal-Abboud presented her research and talked about the experiences and challenges of Arab social workers at parent-child centers in Israel as well as the importance of a cultural context that comes along with this field of work.