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News
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BOKU grants diversity prizes for research at Tulln's inaugural Diversity Day. Discover the strategy behind the awards and meet the winners.
Events
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Public Presentations Tenure Track "Biodiversity Research"
Public presentations of the candidates for the §99(5) Tenure Track position on "Biodiversity research with a focus on evolutionary and ecological…
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43rd EPSO Plant Science Seminar
Breakthroughs in horticultural species
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28. BOKU CAS Semester-Touchdown
On 05 June 2025 the 28th BOKU CAS Semestertouchdown will take place in the BOKU Festsaal. At the Touchdown 6 outstanding theses from the agricultural…
Research

The majority of Alpine river discharge is older than one month
A recently published joint study by the BOKU University and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich shows the age distribution of Alpine rivers in Switzerland and Austria and shows that the majority of the annual runoff is significantly older than one month. This means that even in the event of floods, only a small proportion of the runoff consists of recent precipitation.