Environmental Scholarship 2006

Austria’s leading private disposal company, SAUBERMACHER, regards it as a challenge to contribute actively to a fruitful exchange between the areas of science, economy, technology and environmental protection.

The "Hans Roth Saubermacher Umweltstipendium" offers one option for this, which this year was awarded to three Austrian universities for the first time (Montanuniversität Leoben, Karl Franzens-Universität Graz, TU Wien).

The three scholarships are each granted € 2,000 and, on 22nd March 2006 at the Österreichische Abfallwirtschaftstagung 2006 [Austrian Convention for Waste Management] in the Austria Center Vienna, were awarded to young, up-and-coming researcher for particularly challenging theses or dissertations with a connection to environmental protection and waste management.

The award winners accepted the certificates with pleasure.

We wholeheartedly congratulate the winners!

Federal Minister, Elisabeth Gehrer, was also present at the event and gave away a few secrets. She is very pleased to be able to support such a project, particularly since Mrs. Gehrer took up her office in 1983 in the Vorarlberg Landtag [state parliament] in the Department for Waste Management. Consequently, as far as she is concerned, there is a strong connection between waste management and education.

Award Winners:

DI Stefan Skutan [Graduate Engineer]
Thesis Title: “Semba – Unmessbares messbar machen” [Making the Immeasurable Measurable]

Supervisor: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Paul H. BrunnerTechnische Universität Wien [Technical University of Vienna]
Institut für Wassergüte und Abfallwirtschaft [Institute for Water Quality and Waste Management]

Mag. Birgit Träger [MA]
Dissertation Title: “Innovative Anwendungs- und Recyclingpotentiale von Farbrestpulvern" [Innovative Application and Recycling Potentials of Scrap Coating Powders]

Supervisor: Arnulf Hasler (Lehrbeauftragter des Institutes und Handlungsbevollmächtigter für die Geschäftsführung des EU-Regionalmanagement Obersteiermark West) [Part-time Lecturer and Authorized Management Representative of the EU Regional Management of Obersteiermark West]

KF-UNI Graz
Institut für Innovations- und Umweltmanagement [Institute for Innovations and Environmental Management]

DI Michael Prochaska [Graduate Engineer]
Thesis Title: “Entwicklung und Validierung einer Probenamestrategie für die Qualitätssicherung von heizwertreichen Abfallfraktionen" [Development and Validation of a Sampling Strategy for the Quality Assurance of High Calorific Waste Processing]

Supervisor: Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Karl E. Lorber represented by Mag. Dr. Wolfgang Staber, MBA (Deputy Institute Director)Montanuniversität Leoben
Institut für nachhhaltige Abfallwirtschaft und Entsorgungstechnik [Institute for Sustained Waste Management and Disposal Technology]