On September 28, 2006, DDr. Reinhard Mang – Head of Department at the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management – presented the Austrian Society for Agricultural Economics (ÖGA) Research Prize, donated by Federal Minister Josef Pröll, in the Marble Hall of the Government Building. Due to the diverse range of submitted work, two researchers were honored for the first time in 2006: Mag. Christoph Kirchengast received the 2006 ÖGA Prize for his work in agricultural sociology, and DI DI Hermine Mitter received the 2006 ÖGA Prize for her work in agricultural economics.
ÖGA Prize with Focus on Agricultural Sociology
Mag. Christoph Kirchengast, a research associate at the Center for Mountain Agriculture at the University of Innsbruck, received the prize for his diploma thesis entitled "On Alpine Pastures – Social and Cultural Anthropological Considerations of Alpine Farming in Austria." Kirchengast's work was supervised by Dr. Karlheinz Knickel from the Institute for Rural Development Research at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main was selected as an independent reviewer from the submitted works.
Overview of the award-winning work
ÖGA Prize with a Focus on Agricultural Economics
DI DI Hermine Mitter, research associate at the Institute for Spatial Planning and Rural Development at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, received the prize for her diploma thesis entitled "Supply of Biomass District Heating as a Planning Content of the Local Development Concept Using the Example of St. Georgen am Walde/Upper Austria." Hermine Mitter's work was selected as an independent reviewer from the submitted works by Prof. Dr. Alfons Balmann from the Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe.
Overview of the award-winning work
