In October 2019, Harald Pechlaner, head of Eurac Research's Center for Advanced Studies in Bozen, and researcher Anja Marcher visited our institute with the aim of deepening and strengthening the cooperation between the Center and the IHS. During the visit, Pechlaner and Marcher introduced Eurac Research and presented the research conducted at the Center for Advanced Studies. The cooperation started in 2018, in April 2019 Marcher moreover joined the IHS Research Unit Companies, Industries, Regions as a Junior Research Fellow.