Friends of Kowi – Sponsorship Award

With the Friends of Kowi – Sponsorship Award, the Association of Friends of the Department of Communication Science at the University of Salzburg is again awarding a cash prize to outstanding student work in the process of development.
A cash prize of € 500 will be awarded for the best exposé of a master’s thesis.

Award details

– Amount of the prize: Master theses: € 500,- (one prize per year)
– Mode of award: Decision will be made by a jury consisting of members of the department and the Friends of Kowi.
– Documents to be submitted: Exposés of the MA idea incl. literature research, references, research question(s) & hypothesis(es) and details on the methodological implementation of the research project to the usual extent as well as a short cover letter on what the funds will be used for.

If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact friendsofkowi@plus.ac.at.

The master thesis about the staging strategies in gangsta rap negotiation of identity, class, ethnicity, nation and gender convinced the jury:

Anja Habich wins the Friends of Kowi award this year.

The award winner presents her research work here (supervisor: Assoz.Prof. Dr. Ricarda Drüeke).

We would like to congratulate her!

The master’s thesis on the social media communication of right-wing parties in Austria, Germany and Switzerland during the Corona pandemic convinced the jury:

Katharina Schöppl wins the Friends of Kowi Award this year.

The award winner presents her research work here (supervisor: Assoz.Prof. Dr. Ricarda Drüeke).

We congratulate her!

This year we were once again able to award our sponsorship prize for an outstanding expose.

Ms. Luisa Wilczek wrote her expose on the topic of

“Perception of social rating systems in Germany”.

supervised by A.o. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Thomas Steinmaurer.

We congratulate Ms. Wilczek very much!