ABC Graz ABC Graz ABC Graz ("Athletik und Basketball Club Graz") is a professional basketball club from the city of Graz, Austria. The club is part of the multisport club ATSE Graz (" Arbeiter- Turn- und Sportverein Eggenberg" / "Workers' gymnastic and sporting club Eggenberg"). The club under the name "Progress Graz" (for sponsorship reasons), demoted in 1975 in the Österreichische Basketball Bundesliga. After two seasons Progress came out in European competitions and participated in FIBA Korać Cup (1977–78 & 1978–79) without achieve special performance. Τhe 1981-82 season with new name and sponsor (Merkur) the team ranked third in the domestic league
University of Graz Franz Hess (Nobel prize 1936) graduated in Graz and taught there from 1920 to 1931 and from 1937 to 1938. The physicist Erwin Schrödinger briefly was chancellor of the university in 1936. The University of Graz does not have a distinct faculty of engineering, however, Graz University of Technology, which is focused on engineering and technology, offers inter-university undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in cooperation with the university's Faculty of Natural Sciences under the name "NAWI Graz". The main intention behind the cooperation was to avoid duplication of efforts and infrastructure, especially in cost-intensive subjects such as chemistry, industrial chemistry, physics,