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Austrian State Prize

Thomas Thaler, Institute for Landscape Planning, and Sebastian Seebauer, Joanneum Research, won second place with their project "Just Fair".

Funding opportunities

Applications for the funding award for completed gender and diversity theses and the master's thesis scholarship are open until November 15, 2024.

BOKU Awareness Days

Join us to explore equity, diversity, and inclusion. Improve your skills in neurodiversity, antiracism, climate anxiety, and gender-based violence.

ILAP successfully hosted the [STUDENT BIP] 2024/25

BOKU, FH Kiel and UPV Valencia: International exchange of students and lecturers

[STUDENT BIP] – an Erasmus Blended Intensive Programme about "Sustainable Urban Development – Liveable Quarters, blue-green Infrastructures and Active Mobility“

BOKU scientists teach in Kenya

Barbara Steiner and Sebastian Michel led an intensive course on “Phenotypic Analysis to Genomic Selection” at Egerton University.

ELLS Scientific Student Conference

Wageningen University, 22.-23. November 2024

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Baumschabl wins PhD Award

Receiving the prestigious PhD Award at this year's ÖGMBT conference is an impressive recognition of Michael Baumschabl's scientific work.

Release: The Bark Beetle Dashboard

The practice-oriented bark beetle dashboard is a current joint project of BOKU University and the Austrian Research Centre for Forests (BFW). It provides important information on the management of the Eurasian spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus) in several maps with high spatial and temporal resolution for the whole of Austria and has been online in a first test version since May 2024.

Green grabbing in Brazil

A study by BOKU University shows how the land requirements of these energies are changing access to land and threatening traditional communities.

Jennifer Hatlauf honoured

Golden jackal researcher awarded the prestigious Stefan M. Gergely Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences

Obituary

Prof. DI Dr Friedrich Leisch, Head of the Institute of Statistics, died on 24 April at the age of 56 after a serious illness.

Florian Kitzler honoured with the GIL Award for Agricultural Informatics

Florian Kitzler, from the Institute of Agricultural Engineering, has been awarded the GIL Prize for Agricultural Informatics for his dissertation "RGB-D Semantic Segmentation for Intelligent Weed Control". His work deals with weed control using innovative approaches to machine image recognition.

A World of Solidarity

On the 14th of November, a presentation took place at BOKU that explored the interconnectedness of Iraq´s challenges and the path to a sustainable future.

First Commercial SLIM System in Europe now at BOKU

In collaboration with Agilent Technologies and MOBILion Systems Inc., the first commercial SLIM-QTOFMS system in Europe was recently installed at BOKU Vienna.

The Diversity Award for Research is being announced at BOKU for the first time!

Anyone who conducts diversity-sensitive research is invited to take part. Research projects, publications, presentations and posters can be submitted. The submission deadline is March 31.

Courses about Gender & Diversity

Join in! Here you will find an overview of the courses with gender and diversity content offered in the winter term 2024/25.

Dental implant research at BOKU

At the Institute for Synthetic Bioarchitectures, ceramic dental implant surfaces have been investigated for years. The aim is to improve the ingrowth behavior (osseointegration) through new surface architectures. Together with a dental implant manufacturer, we recently submitted a strategy for non-chemical surface modification as an international patent. As part of the NanoEHS call, we have been given the opportunity to apply our previous knowledge to a specific question: how do potential abrasions of such ceramics behave? What tent biological effects do we see in our human cell lines and how do our findings compare to conservative dental implants? At the Institute for Synthetic Bioarchitectures, ceramic dental implant surfaces have been investigated for years. The aim is to improve the ingrowth behavior (osseointegration) through new surface architectures. We have recently filed a strategy for non-chemical surface modification as an international patent together with a dental…

Danubius Mid-Career Award

Minister of Science Martin Polaschek awarded BOKU researcher Marco Beaumont during the Danubius Awards 2023.

Innovation Corner - Exhibition at the Technical Museum Vienna

On 2.10.2023, the Innovation Corner AGRIFOOD in the foyer of the Vienna Technical Museum with a contribution from the COMET Centre FFoQSI in collaboration with the Institute for Analytical Chemistry at BOKU was ceremoniously opened. The exhibition “Knowledge paths from plate to pond”, fish origins through ear stone analysis using analytical chemistry, can be seen for 4 months.

2nd place for the BOKU Brew Crew

The Coffee Stout beer "Melange" from the BOKU Brew Crew was awarded 2nd place at the 11th International Brewing Competition in Hamburg.

Prof. Orlando Rojas (The University of British Columbia) as a guest professor at BOKU

Prof. Orlando Rojas delivers a guest lecture on “Principles and applications of biobased materials” from October 4th to 12th.

EPICUR courses Fall Semester - Call for Applications

EPICUR is excited to offer you around 22 different courses in a wide range of subjects ranging from Sustainability, European Values, Entrepreneurship & Engagement to Key Competences, like Academic Writing.

Prof. Hiroyuki Yano (Kyoto University) as a guest professor at BOKU

Prof. Hiroyuki Yano delivers a guest lecture on “Current Advances in Biomaterials” from September 8th to 15th.

Accessible tourism

"CE-Spaces4All" wants to enable people with disabilities to travel and use tourism offers in a self-determined way in rural areas.

BUILD.NATURE

A group of 15 PhD students finished the course “Cycle of materials, construction, building and resilience” that set the task of constructing a bike shelter for the BOKU in Groß-Enzersdorf.

Shanghai-Ranking

According to the current "Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities" BOKU is again among the 500 best universities worldwide.

Importance of Landscapes

An international team of researchers led by BOKU and MSU studied the effects of human activities on river fish.

CASEE-Conference

Rector Schulev-Steindl used the CASEE conference in Moldova for talks on intensifying BOKU cooperation in the Danube region.

BOKU meets China

On June 20th, scientists from BOKU and from Chinese Institutions met to immerse into Chinese and Austrian culture.

Vienna is Soya Capital of the World this week

Today, Monday, the first World Soybean Research Conference (WSRC) started. BOKU professor Johann Vollmann is chairman of the scientific advisory board at the congress.

Google Developer Expert

BOKU researcher Emma Izquierdo-Verdiguier is one of the few globally selected experts in the "Earth Engine" category.

Guest Professor PD Dr. Antonina Lavrentieva (Course 790031)

„3D Cell Cultures of Higher Complexity as an Innovative and Reliable Tool for Tissue Engineering and In Vitro Disease Modeling“ When: 14.-16. June 2023 Where: Muthgasse 18, Department for Biotechnology, 5. Floor, SR 52

UFAW Award

The Universities Federation for Animal Welfare has awarded Sara Hintze for her contribution to animal welfare research.

Prof. Ivar Lyhne from Aalborg University at BOKU – new concepts of digitalisation in environmental planning

Prof. Ivar Lyhne, associate professor at Aalborg University in the Danish Centre for Environmental Assessment, Department of Planning with focus on digitalisation, SDGs and public participation processes in environmental planning and assessment, will be a visiting professor at BOKU in May.

Consumer Science Symposium

BOKU researchers investigated the question of how resource-conserving, sustainable consumption can look like that still meets people's needs?

Agriculture after tin-mining in Indonesia

Together with the Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), researchers from the Institute of Soil Research, Agronomy, and Development Research are investigating the effects of locally available soil amendments on agricultural yield, soil fertility parameters, and the heavy metal contents in both harvested crops and post-tin mining soils.

PhD program BioToP celebrates 12.5 years

More information and registration at biotop2023.boku.ac.at. Scientific contributions in the form of talks or posters are welcome and can be submitted until May 22, 2023. The best poster will be awarded with an attractive prize.

Falling Walls Lab Austria 2023

Projects that change the world: Young talents from various disciplines can convince the jury of their project in a speed performance. Registration until May 8.

New Vice Rector

Assoc.Prof.in Diin Dr.in Doris Damyanovic took over the Vice Rectorate for Teaching, Continuing Education and Students at BOKU.

Guest professorship

Univ.Prof. Chris Elliott from Queen's University Belfast at BOKU on challenges of global food supply systems.

Advanced Cell Culture Technologies

On 17.03.2023 the Workshop "Advanced Cell Culture Technologies" of the ÖGMBT Working Group "Cell based assays, therapies and products" took place at BOKU. Over 60 participants from over 15 different cities and institutions met to learn and exchange information about the latest trends in cell culture technology.

Spend a different summer

- study ELLSwhere!

It is time to travel again: Join a Summer School of the Euroleague for Life Sciences (ELLS)!

The life cycle planner

On Feb. 27, Alfred Strauss presented his inaugural lecture as the new professor of systems engineering. Rewatch the livestream.

Pan-European Seal Programme

The Pan-European Seal Programme gives high-performing university graduates the opportunity to gain valuable practical experience in the multicultural environment of the European Patent Office. The internships start in September 2023 and take place in Alicante (EUIPO) or Munich (EPO), the interns receive a monthly salary. If you are interested, send an email to BOKU Techtransfer tto@boku.ac.at

EPICUR registration open

BOKU students have until December 16 to register for the EPICUR Alliance's Summer Semester 2023 course offerings.

International Soil Day

Soil protection is climate protection! The importance of soils and the dangers posed by soil sealing cannot be overstated.

BOKU PhD school ABC&M visits three Japanese Universities

15 PhD students of the BOKU doctorate school ABCM ("Advanced Biorefineries - Chemistry and Materials") visited three internationally leading Japanese institutions in this field during a twelve-day excursion: Shinshu University (fiber science), Kyoto University (chemistry of lignocellulosics) / Kyoto University - Uji Campus (nanocelluloses and composites) and Kyoto Institute of Technology (processing of renewable resources).

Prof. Mirjana Kostić (Belgrade University) as guest professor at BOKU

Prof. Mirjana Kostić from the University of Belgrade (Serbia) has been appointed BOKU guest professor and gives a guest lecture on the topic “Natural cellulosic fibers: Studying the fiber structure by microscopy” from Nov 10th to Nov 17th

NÖ Innovation Award

BOKU received the BEST INNOVATION award for the topic "Recyclable wood-based materials of the future - from chipboard to 3D printing".