 Professor Gordon “Nick” Mueller, founder of the UNO-Innsbruck partnership, selected Innsbruck as the venue for a summer school of the University of New Orleans.Mueller first came to Innsbruck as a student when he worked as press officer for IBM Austria at the 1964 Winter Olympic Games, and what he saw persuaded him that the city would be an ideal base for the first European summer school run by an American university.For 25 years, up until the general refurbishment, ISH made a key contribution to the success of the UNO Summer School, accommodating a total of over 7000 students enrolled in this elite university programme.