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INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL 2019

of the Leuphana University Lüneburg, BOKU Vienna and the TU Budapest

The International Summer School “Environment and Climate Protection and Sustainable Mobility” will be held in cooperation with BOKU and TU Budapest in Vienna and Budapest from August 5-9 2019. The Summer School provides a number of lectures and excursions on various topics in the context of global and climate change challenges. For further detailed information (Application deadline 10th of July) see the link to the program. There are 20 cost-free places available for BOKU students !

ESST Best Paper Award for Cordula Kohout

Cordula Kohout, PhD student at the Institute of Food Science at BOKU (Advisor: Ass. Prof. Konrad Domig) and project manager at ARIC was awarded with the Best Paper Award at the 6th Conference of the European Society of Sugar Technology (ESST) in Poznań (Poland). In her presentation she focused on modern molecular methods for the characterization of the microflora in beet sugar factories.

95th Birthday of Anton Krapfenbauer

BOKU-Professor Anton Krapfenbauer celebrates his 95th birthday with an exhibition of his paintings.

ELLS Scientific Student Conference

Uppsala, Sweden, 15.-16.11.2019

New Deadline for abract submission: 30.6.2019

Invited Chair Position for Bioeconomy and Biorefinery

Assoc. Prof. Falk Liebner, Institute for Chemistry of Renewable Resources has accepted a call for an Invited Chair (Full Professor, part-time) Position for Bioeconomy and Biorefinery at the Department of Chemistry, University of Aveiro, Portugal.

LTS with Dr. Jack Stilgoe

Dr. Jack Stilgoe, University College London (UCL), will be giving a lecture on "How experiments become futures - Social learning for self-driving cars" as part of the LunchTimeSeries on Law, Technology and Society (LTS). The lecture will take place at Guttenberghaus (Ground floor, meeting Seminar Room SR 02) on 27 June 2019 from 12.00 - 1.30 pm. The event is open to all and participation is free of charge. Please register in advance at: law(at)boku.ac.at until 25 June 2019 as lunch will be provided.

ClimateLaunchpad Finale 19th of June 2019

13 teams present their sustainable business ideas against climate change

Rethinking land degradation and sustainable management

Symposium on the occasion of the World Day to Combat Desertification

Monday, June 17, 2019

Inter-university project DiLaAG offers 7 PhD positions

The project "DiLaAg - Digitalization and Innovation Laboratory in Agricultural Sciences" pursues the objective of establishing a scientific nucleus in the field of digitalization in agriculture and creating a platform for research, development, training and consulting, which is also open to the public. Within this project, 7 PhD positions are offered. Deadline for submission is the 26th of June 2019.

LTS with Professor Sebastian Pfotenhauer

Professor Sebastian Pfotenhauer, Technical University Munich (TUM), will be giving a lecture on "Testing future Societies? Developing a framework for test beds and living labs as instruments of innovation governance" as part of the LunchTimeSeries on Law, Technology and Society (LTS). The lecture will take place at Guttenberghaus (Ground floor, meeting Seminar room SR 01) on 12 June 2019 from 12.00 - 1.30 pm. Please register via law(at)boku.ac.at until 10 June 2019 as lunch will be provided.

Phosphor Signaling by Roots

May 23 at UFT: guest lectura by Dr. Jörg Ziegler (Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Halle)

Drought Resistance Phenotyping in Grapevine

Seminar with Prof. Gregory A. Gambetta (ISVV Bordeaux) at the BOKU Institute for Viticulture and Pomology.

Prof. Erik Reimhult at TEDx Klagenfurt

Tiny materials with huge potential

Nanomaterials are advancing our technological capabilities in ways that border on what might be perceived as science fiction. Their role in biology, interactions and use in medicine and biotechnology are studied at BOKU. Watch this TEDx video of Univ. Prof. Erik Reimhult explaining some of the ideas guiding research on nanomaterials at the Institute for Biologically Inspired Materials.

Honorary Doctorate of Aalborg University awarded to Verena Winiwarter

# Ehrung

For her distinguished efforts in the field of environmental history Verena Winiwarter (Institute of Social Ecology, Department of Economics and Social Sciences) was conferred the degree of Doctor philosophiae honoris causa. The festive promotion took place on May 3rd, within the framework of Aalborg University´s Annual Celebration 2019.

Dr. Habil. Reinhard Miller

Visiting professor at the Institute for Biophysics (Department of Nanobiotechnology)

Dr. Habil. Reinhard Miller is the editor of the journal Advances in Colloid Interface Science (Elsevier) and has been President of the European Colloid and Interface Society (ECIS) and the International Association of Colloid & Interface Scientists (IACIS). He has a remarkable research record with ca. 640 SCI-papers, 50 book chapters, and more than 14000 citations (H-index: 55).

Johannes Grillari follows Heinz Redl

as Director of Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Experimental and Clinical Traumatology

Entrepreneurship Workshop & Conference

for PhD students and early PostDocs

A compact introduction on how scientists might apply their skillset

LTS with Professor Claudia Müller-Birn

Professor Claudia Müller-Birn, Free University of Berlin, will be giving a lecture on "Bringing the human to the center of algorithmic systems design: challenges and opportunities" as part of the LunchTimeSeries on Law, Technology and Society (LTS). The lecture will take place at Guttenberghaus (Ground floor, meeting Seminar Room SR 02) on 17 May 2019 from 12.00 - 1.30 pm. The event is open to all and participation is free of charge. Please register in advance at: law(at)boku.ac.at until 15 May 2019 as lunch will be provided.

Lecture Series: Law - Technology - Society

Summer term 2019

The LTS LunchTimeSeries on Law, Technology and Society enters into the Summer term 2019! The series will start on 17 May 2019 with a lecture by Professor Claudia Müller-Birn, Freie Universität Berlin. Lectures by Professor Sebastian Pfotenhauer, Technical University Munich, on the 12 June 2019 and by Dr Jack Stilgoe, University College London (UCL), on the 27 June 2019 will follow. The complete semester program is now available online on our website. Admission is free. Please register by e-mail to law@boku.ac.at.

"Environmental Histories of the First World War" wins Distinguished Book Award

# Book Award 2019

One of this year's winners of the Distinguished Book Awards of the Society of Military History is "Environmental Histories of the First World War", edited by Tucker, R.P., Keller, T., McNeill, J.R. and Schmid, M.

Martin Schmid is associate professor for environmental history at the Institute of Social Ecology, Department of Economics and Social Sciences (BOKU).

Energy Globe Award Lower Austria, category "air"

goes to wood scientists from BOKU and the Wood Competence Center

Roman Myna, Rupert Wimmer (both wood technology), Falk Liebner (chemistry of renewable resources), Stephan Frömel-Frybort (wood competence center), and the company General Laser, received the this year’s Energy Globe Award Lower Austria, category "air", for their project "Dustfree- the new tribowood-technology for less wood-fine dust".

Invitation: public event

University of the Future: an Evening with Arjen Wals and Verena Winiwarter

Managing Complexity in Social Systems

New Publication

Why do policies and strategies often fail, and what can be done about it? How can complexity be managed in cases where it cannot be reduced? The answers to these questions are anything but trivial, and can only be found by combining insights from complexity science, system dynamics, system theory and systems thinking. This book bridges the gap between rigorous science and real-life experience to explore the potential and limitations of leverage points in implementing policies and strategies. Christoph Mandl teaches business management at the Institute of Production and Logistics.

Spend a different evening

- join the ELLS feeling event on March 27!

Meet students from other ELLS universities, ELLS and ELSA representatives at BOKU and get to know more about the programmes of the Euroleague for Life Sciences.

Attila Tóth, Dipl.-Ing. Dr.

Visiting Postdoc Researcher | Action Austria-Slovakia Scholarship for Postdocs Institute of Landscape Planning, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna

Attila Tóth from the Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra is currently conducting a 6-month research stay at the Institute of Landscape Planning of BOKU.

Buchpräsentation: Die Beschleunigung der Berge. Eine Umweltgeschichte des Wintertourismus in Vorarlberg/Österreich, 1920-2010

# ZUG-Minisymposium

Präsentation: Dr. Robert Groß, Universität Innsbruck und Universität für Bodenkultur Wien; Ort/Zeit: BOKU | Hauptbibliothek Wilhelm Exner-Haus, Zeitschriftenlesesaal, Peter Jordan-Straße 82, 1190 Wien: Dienstag, 12. März 2019, 18.15 Uhr

Ressourcenverbrauch: Wie schaffen wir die Wende zur Nachhaltigkeit?

# BOKU-Presseinformation, 27.02.2019

Ein u.a. von WissenschafterInnen des BOKU-Instituts für Soziale Ökologie verfasster Artikel im Fachjournal Nature Sustainability zeigt jetzt, welchen Beitrag die Erforschung des gesellschaftlichen Stoffwechsels zur Nachhaltigkeit im Anthropozän leisten kann.

Biodiversitätskrise: Mehr Effizienz in der Agrarproduktion reicht als Antwort nicht aus

# BOKU-Presseinformation, 4.3.2019

Das Wachstum der globalen Wirtschaft und Bevölkerung zerstört die biologische Vielfalt und Ökosystemleistungen – vor allem in den Tropen. In der Fachzeitschrift Nature Ecology & Evolution wurden die Ergebnisse von einem Forschungsteam unter der Leitung des Deutschen Zentrums für integrative Biodiversitätsforschung (iDiv), der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) gemeinsam mit einem Team vom Institut für Soziale Ökologie (BOKU) publiziert.

Anne Mogoi Birundu

1989 - 2019

Our colleague and BOKU doctoral candidate Anne was among the passengers of ET302. We are shocked and lost for words at the loss of Anne, who had dedicated her career to improving livelihoods through water resource development. Our thoughts are with her family and friends.

EUR-Organic: Apply now!

EUR-Organic application deadlines: March 15 for Non-EU-students resp. June 1 for EU-students for WS 2019 Get your international career started & apply now!

Spend a different summer

- study ELLSwhere!

We warmly invite all BOKU students to attend a Summer School of the Euroleague for Life Sciences (ELLS).

OVG - DGPF - SGPF Dreiländertagung 2019

Spannende Firmenaussteller und hochkarätige Fachvorträge begeisterten über 250 Teilnehmer aus 8 Nationen. Die Anwendungsnähe der Vorträge führte die aktuellen Herausforderungen in den genannten Fachbereichen vor Augen. Big data, Digitalisierung, Maschinelles Lernen und künstliche Intelligenz für zukunftsweisende Anwendungen z.B. im Bereich Land- und Forstwirtschaft stellten einen der zahlreichen Schwerpunkte dar.

Go Tandem!

Learn Languages with Natives for Free

Form a "tandem" and teach each other your mother language! Decide yourself, how, when and where you want to learn. Registration in BOKUlearn - deadline: March 10.

Kick-off SECBIVIT

Vineyards produce more than wine

Viticulture, the cultivation of grapes, is among the oldest and most profitable forms of agriculture.

NATURJUWEL KAMPTAL ERNEUT BEDROHT!

Bildervortrag von WERNER GAMERITH. Mittwoch 13. März 2019, 17:00 Uhr, TÜWI-U1/02

Die einzigartige naturnahe Flusslandschaft des mittleren Kamptals steht auf dem Spiel.

Food security & climate change

Summer School

Sustainable and resilient food systems in vulnerable areas, Phillipines, July 15-31, 2019 Apply now!

This is your vintage 2019!

Do it yourself:
Adopt a vine and make your wine!

Welcome Days for International Students

The Center for International Relations and ESN BOKU kindly invite you to our Welcome Days for International Students from February 19 to 22 (+weekend programme by ESN). Get to know BOKU and your fellow students!

Diethard Mattanovich re-elected as Vice-President of the European Federation of Biotechnology

At the last meeting of the Executive Board of the European Federation of Biotechnology in Barcelona, Diethard Mattanovich was re-elected Vice-President of the European Federation of Biotechnology (EFB).

Conversion of CO2 into animal feed

Thomas Gaßler and Michael Egermeier, PhD-students at the Department of Biotechnology, received FFG Spin-Off Fellowship for the implementation of their project "CarboFeed" with Prof. Diethard Mattanovich.

BOKU in Newsweeks' Country Report

US-magazine Newsweek features Austria's ministries, top-enterprises and educational institutions in its current Country Report titled "Austria: Europe's center of opportunity" - including BOKU: The green university for a green economy.

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

PhD Programme BioToP at VIBT BOKU

Open call for applications for the international PhD Programme "Biomolecular Technology of Proteins - BioToP". Application deadline: February 13th, 2019. For detailed information and application guidelines please visit: http://biotop.boku.ac.at

"Riverine Ecosystem Management"

Big success for the Open Access book

With more than 120,000 downloads in 2018, "Riverine Ecosystem Management" placed first in the "Aquatic Sciences" category of the Springer publishing house.

High level negotiations on environmental migration

Students of BOKU and University of Vienna simulate a UN conference at the VIC. When 46 countries from all over the world meet, different interests clash in the pursuit of a resolution. For the time of his participation, BM Heinz Faßmann headed the Austrian delegation.

Reinhard Liepolt Prize for Danube Research

awarded to Rafaela Schinegger and Florian Borgwardt from the Institute of Hydrobiology and Aquatic Ecosystem Management

The Reinhard Liepolt Prize for Danube Research 2017 was awarded to two staff members of the Institute for Hydrobiology and Aquatic Ecosystem Management at BOKU, Dr. Rafaela Schinegger (main prize) and Dr. Florian Borgwardt (2nd prize) on December 4th 2018.

SFB Fusarium Closing Conference

After 10 years of successful interdisciplinary research, the special research project SFB Fusarium at BOKU reaches its end. Interested colleagues are cordially invited to attend the closing conference on January 18th, 2019 at IFA Tulln.

Award of Excellence for Nino Trattnig

MSc. Dr. Nino Trattnig was presented with the Award of Excellence in recognition of his PhD thesis elaborated at the Department of Chemistry

BOKU-Students among winning teams of ELLS CSC 2018

Six out of the ten winners of the Case Study Competition “Transition Towns“ of the Euroleague for Life Sciences are BOKU students!

Daniel Burgstaller as student finalist at the Merck Award 2018

Twelve student finalists awarded in three fields: bioseparations, food & beverage safety and tumor biology