Innsbruck - unique and distinctive

With the city’s central location between Italy, Switzerland and Germany, the spectacular mountain scenery of the Tyrol, the MCI’s proximity to Innsbruck’s lively Old Town, its synergistic ties to Innsbruck University and the impressive architecture of the campus, the MCI mentors the motivated in a unique situation for study and leisure.

With its 35,000 students, the university, conference and Olympic city of Innsbruck is one of the most popular university locations in Europe, with a rich tradition of learning, academic excellence and a vibrant student scene in terms of culture and living facilities, discourse and encounter.

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Situated in the heart of the Alps, the two-time host of the Winter Olympics and high-end tourist destination Innsbruck provides a wealth of year-round sports and leisure opportunities.

About Student Life

Semester Ticket

MCI students can buy their Semesterticket Tirol online in the VVT Ticketshop. This means they always have their public transport ticket with them digitally and can travel throughout the whole of the Tyrol by bus, train and streetcar throughout the semester - even at weekends and during the lecture-free period.

Sponsoring for competitions

MCI students who are interested in participating in competitions (e.g. sporting events, hackathons, etc.) can apply for sponsorship. For monetary support, an application for a special project must be submitted to the öh MCI. If this is approved, a request can also be made to student.life@mci.edu for a discount on suitable items from the MCI shop.

ÖH MCI

The MCI Student Representation offers a wide range of services and is always on the lookout for dedicated students.

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Ongoing Events

Leisure

Sportinstitut der Universität Innsbruck (USI)

Close cooperation with the Innsbruck University Sports Institute (USI) provides MCI students, lecturers, and employees with highly modern facilities for a broad range of sports opportunities at attractive terms.

Current USI course offers can be found at usi.uibk.ac.at

The following steps have to be followed for registration:

Open your myMCI account and go to Private sphere to authorize the digital transfer of the personal data required for online registration for USI courses.
Following authorization, the required data will be made available to the USI database within one day. Then use this link to enter a login password for course registration.

The user name for your USI account is the e-mail address provided to USI, i.e.

in the case of Bachelor and Master students, the long mci4me e-mail address e.g. your.name@mci4me.at; this e-mail address is listed as your “alternative e-mail address” on myMCI under Profile/mci4me Account)
in the case of Executive Education students, the (private) e-mail address notified to the MCI
in the case of MCI faculty, also the (private) e-mail address notified to the MCI
in the case of MCI staff, the MCI e-mail address (e.g. your.name@mci.edu); authorization for data release via MCI Designer required (instructions).

If you have any questions or encounter any problems with registration, please contact:

Universitäts-Sportinstitut Innsbruck (USI)
Fürstenweg 185
6020 Innsbruck

E-Mail: usi@uibk.ac.at

Religion and pastoral care

Roman Catholic University Parish

In order to give MCI students, faculty and staff access to pastoral care and a church community, the MCI has been affiliated to the University Parish of St. Clement in Innsbruck.

Recognized in ecclesiastic law in 1980, the University Parish is a personal parish, i.e. it serves the needs of a specific group of persons. Originally, only Catholics at the Leopold Franz University and the Medical University could be parishioners, but now students and staff of the MCI are also eligible to join this parish, which was created specifically to provide pastoral care at the university. The parish church is the Neue Universitätskirche on the Innrain, and there is also a community center in Josef-Hirn-Strasse.

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Evangelical Church of Salzburg-Tyrol

Among Austria's 8 million inhabitants are over 356,500 members of the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession and 19,500 members of the Evangelical Church of the Helvetian Confession, making a total of 4.7 percent of the Austrian population. There are about 30,000 Protestants living in the Diocese of Salzburg-Tyrol.

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Innsbruck's Muslim Religious Community for the Tyrol

The Muslim Religious Community sees its main role in helping Muslims living in Austria preserve their Muslim identity while also developing roots in the country's pluralistic democratic society. This is done by promoting integration through participation.

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Jewish Religious Community for the Tyrol and Vorarlberg

In recent years, the work of the Jewish Religious Community has seen collaboration between a variety of people and institutions, including the municipal, regional and federal authorities, and the Office of the Roman Catholic Diocese. After an interval of sixty years, bar mitzvahs and brit milahs are again being celebrated, and although its over one hundred members are scattered around the Tyrol and Vorarlberg, the festival of pesach is again the main social event for the community, which today includes people of all age groups and nationalities and from all walks of life, and a large number of children born in the Tyrol.

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Officially recognized religious communities in Austria

Click here to see a list of all the officially recognized religious communities in Austria.

Student Associations

Student associations are open to university students and alumni. They are committed to the principle of life-long friendship and common ideals and form a traditional part of university life in Austria.

More information on student associations (information only available in German):