The History Politics platform at the Mozarteum University Salzburg deals with cultures of remembrance from the 1920s to the 1990s. The academic examination of the university's political past, especially during the periods of Austrofascism, National Socialism and the post-war era, plays just as important a role as art projects against forgetting and for greater awareness. In a citizen science project, researchers are now searching for documents and memories from contemporary witnesses.

The artist and art pedagogue Ao. Univ.-Prof. MMag. Bernhard Gwiggner has been awarded the 2025 Ars Docendi prize for teaching excellence by the Austrian state. The interdisciplinary cooperation "tradition2go: zwischen kultur und wahnsinn" ("between culture and madness") was a collaboration during the 2023/34 academic year between the Sculpture Class at the Mozarteum University and the Salzburg Museum. The project went hand in hand with the exhibition "Masks, Traditional Costumes, Cult Objects - 100 Years of Folk Culture" at the Salzburger Monatsschlössl Hellbrunn.

Sustainability expertise is future expertise. Artists and educators have a special responsibility and potential not only to reflect on social change, but also to help shape it in a positive way. This cross-cutting issue is already being examined from a wide variety of perspectives at the theatre, from green events and new narratives for solving the climate crisis to activism for greater justice and solidarity in practice.