The institution
| Fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2005 |
| Scale | 6,000+ students. Austria's largest private university. |
| Campuses | Vienna HQ, plus Berlin and Milan. A new campus in Western Austria is planned. |
| Faculties | Medicine, Psychology, Psychotherapy Science, Law |
| Rector | Univ.-Prof. Dr. Johannes Pollak |
The whitespace
This is a strong academic brand with no AI layer yet. That is an opportunity, not a criticism. It means there is nothing to unwind and a clean field to build on.
| Surface | Where it stands today |
|---|---|
| Public AI | No AI assistant or AI-facing content on the site today. Greenfield. |
| Multilingual reach | German and English plus campus languages across Vienna, Berlin and Milan. Built-in case for a multilingual AI layer. |
| AI ranking | No AI-ranking or answer-engine work in place. Early-mover advantage is fully available. |
| Brand equity | Twenty years of academic standing. The brand carries trust the AI layer can borrow from day one. |
The mandate fit
The owner wants digitalization and innovative teaching formats, and has signalled it is not pursuing distance education. That maps cleanly onto AI-augmented on-campus and blended teaching, which is exactly the lane.
The health-university focus sharpens it further. Medicine, psychology and psychotherapy are high-stakes, evidence-based programs. An AI study companion grounded in the university's own real course material, rather than a generic chatbot, is where this kind of AI earns its keep and where accuracy matters most.
Open questions for the call
| # | Question |
|---|---|
| 1 | Which faculty should the first pilot run in: Medicine, Psychology, Psychotherapy Science, or Law? |
| 2 | What is the current LMS or learning platform, and is it staying or being replaced? |
| 3 | Where does student-support load hurt most today: tutoring, exam prep, admin questions, or first-year retention? |
| 4 | How important is multilingual support from day one, given Vienna, Berlin and Milan? |
| 5 | Who on the academic side needs to sign off on AI touching real course material, and what would convince them? |