Ambassador Mrs. Talya Lador-Fresher was appointed as new Ambassador of the State of Israel to Vienna in the fall of 2015. On October 20, 2016, the ambassador visited the province of Tyrol for the first time on an official visit. This visit also included a reception at the Salon des Rektors of the University of Innsbruck. The Ambassador was welcomed by the President of the University Senate and Academic Director of AIANI, Ivo Hajnal, as well as the President of the University Council, Christian Smekal. Also attending were the Head of the International Services, Barbara Tasser, and AIANI Coordinators, Eva-Maria Fink and Marion Wieser as well as AIANI-Fellow Dr. Shirly Levy from the Tel Aviv University. AIANI presented the Ambassador the past, current and future program and projects and the Ambassador talked about her vision and ideas for the academic network.
AIANI invited Ambassador Lador-Fresher to come back to the University of Innsbruck soon for a guest lecture.

On October 17, 2016, a workshop took place at the University of Innsbruck on “Antisemitism in Contemporary Society”.
The workshop was organized by Mag. Nikolaus Hagen and Mag. Tobias Neuburger from the research area “Cultural Encounters – Cultural Conflicts” of the University of Innsbruck, supported by AIANI, the “Innsbrucker Gesellschaft für Kritische Kulturwissenschaft” and the Department of Contemporary History. 
Students, faculty and the interested public were invited to discuss the issue of contemporary antisemitism in society and listen to four guest lectures by experts in the field.

Dr. Shirly Levy from the Tel Aviv University came to the University of Innsbruck as AIANI-Fellow in October 2016 to give several guest lectures on “Israeli Law” at the Law School and to work with colleagues on possible joint projects in the field of consumer law and consumer behavior. Dr. Levy studied Law at the Buchmann Faculty of Law of the Tel Aviv University, where she graduated with a PhD. She was a Visiting researcher at Harvard Law School in 2014 and worked as Legal Assistant for Justice Isaac Amit at the Supreme Court of Israel in 2009-2010. In 2007 she was admitted to the Israel Bar Association. Dr. Levy also holds an LL.M. from Columbia University (2007). The visit and the guest lectures of Dr. Levy in Innsbruck were supported by the City of Innsbruck.

Prof. Noam Shoval, Director of the European Forum at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem came to visit AIANI and the University of Innsbruck from October 5-8, 2016. Prof. Shoval, who is also Professor at the Department of Geography at HUJ, came by invitation of AIANI to discuss ways of cooperation between the European Forum, HUJ and the LFUI. Prof. Shoval conducted several meetings, including one with Rektor Tilmann Märk and held two guest lectures:"The Implementation of Tracking