On Friday, May 6^{th}, 2022 (12:00-14:00 CET) a webinar on recent developments in the field of microwave engineering will take place. The webinar consists of three short presentations given by Distinguished Microwave Instructors (DMIs) about relevant aspects of our future lives where microwave engineering will play a key role. After the presentations, the participants will have the opportunity to engage in a live panel session interacting with the DMIs.

This Webinar is supported by the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) and organized by its Education Committee. For further information on the content and registration, please visit https://mtt.org/event_calendar/dmi-may-2022/ and check the advertising flyer.

The webserver for the CoBCom 2022 conference is now online.

The media department of Graz University of Technology has released a statement regarding the research project transponder occupancy. This can be found in the news section of the university homepage.

Simultaneously the daily newspaper "Die Presse" conducted an interview with Helmut Schreiber and published an article in the science part of the issue of Saturday, January 22^nd.

The 4th CoBCom conference will be held in Graz from July, 12th to July, 14th 2022.

The new Christian Doppler Labratory for Technology-based Design and Characterisation of Electronic Components will be inaugurated on Friday, Nov. 27^th 2020. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic the event will be held online as a WebEx-meeting, starting at 10 am. More information (meeting-code and password) is to be found in the invitation you can download as a pdf in the column on the right side.

We hope that many interested people will participate.

Planet Research includes an article about lightning and hail research at Graz University of Technology.

Another article about hail protection and research (in German), a research area with leading participation of the Institute of Microwave and Photonic Engineering, can be found at steiermark.orf.at.