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Follow up from Euroleague for Life Sciences (ELLS)

EPNOE Young Scientist Award 2022

Goes to Dr. Marco Beaumont

Less meat and animal products?

Not just a question of demand

BOKU-Spin-off Holloid GmbH

Among top 10 for Science & Business Award

Man and the Biosphere

National Committee celebrates 50th birthday

ELLS Scientific Student Conference

Registration deadline: 07.09.2022

BOKU Start up Prize

3,000 euros for your startup! Submit now until August 30

European Society of Animal Cell Technology

Nicole Borth elected as Chair

New study law

Effects of the UG amendment for the academic year 2022/23

Ragweed allergy

place of origin and environment determine pollen aggressiveness

BOKU goes Australia

Lena Maria Leiter wins the "Student Presentation Award"

Smart Mobility

EU project with BOKU participation supports rural areas

3,000 euros for your start-up

Submit your start-up now until August 30!

BOKU central partner

EU project SYMSITES within the framework of 'Circular Economy'.

Princess pea

Pea awarded as crop of the year 2022

Internet blackout

Brisant BOKU project in the media.

Great recognition

BOKU scientist on advisory board "Environment and Sport"

Ukraine conflict

BOKU support for affected persons

Chemical Database

Successfully put into productive operation at BOKU

Poster prize for Anna Schertler at the 6th World Lagomorph Conference

Climate Report for Austria

Acting on a broad knowledge base

Climate protection in the constitution

"A broad alliance"

Instagram Takeover: BOKU from a different perspective.

In the so-called Instagram Takeover, students and staff regularly "take over" the Instagram channel of the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences - and show their very personal view of everyday life at the university, their workplace and the campus. Currently: the BOKU Doctoral School Biomaterials and Biointerfaces.

BOKU doctoral student Rizky Pastika Kirana receives Women in Triticum Award

BOKU on its way to climate neutrality

Press release

Congratulations to the winners of the 22nd BOKU CAS Semester Touchdown!

Long presentations: 1. price: Josef SCHENKENFELDER; 2. price: Roland BRITZ; 3. price: Vanessa KAISER Short presentation: 1. price: Angelika Rosa SEIDL; 2. price: Natalia NÖLLENBURG; 3. price: Verena GRÖßBACHER

Footprint Award

You have got a great idea for a future-oriented, innovative project that fulfills one of the SDGs? You are motivated to present your idea to the public in the form of a concept or even to realise it? Then we have the perfect opportunity for you! As every year, we will again present the so-called Footprint Award, an award for exceptional student projects.

3.000 Euro for your Start-up

Submission 30. August

You have studied at the BOKU and founded a Start-up with your acquired knowledge? You work or have worked at the BOKU and your idea corresponds to the values ​​of the BOKU? You have perfected your idea with the knowledge of BOKU experts? Then send your documents to the BOKU Techtransfer Team!

Promotion Award of the Austrian Hail Insurance

Call for proposals 2022 - submit now!

Up to 3,000 euros will be awarded for outstanding master's theses and dissertations on specific topics in agriculture. Submissions are possible until June 30, 2022!

150 Years Featuring Future

Press release

The University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU) celebrated its anniversary with the Featuring Future Conference.

Supercomputer VSC-5: Top ranking even before completion

The Vienna Scientific Cluster is a joint project of Austrian universities - TU Wien, Universität Wien, TU Graz, Universität Innsbruck, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz and BOKU. The VSC-5 ranks 301st in the Top-500 ranking.

New study calculates material requirements for a climate-compatible power plant fleet

Press release

Transforming and expanding the global electricity sector is central to mitigating climate change and alleviating energy poverty. In a new article, researchers from the Institute of Social Ecology at the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, analyse the material requirements and associated greenhouse gas emissions of different pathways in the electricity sector up to 2050.

EUR-Organic: Apply now!

EUR-Organic application deadline: June 1 for EU-students for winter term 2022 Get your international career started & apply now!

Education where you don't fish in troubled waters

EU deadline: Apply for Limnology and Wetland Management until 15 June!

The International Joint Master Program in "Limnology & Wetland Management" includes 4 months of study each at BOKU, Egerton University in Njoro (Kenya) and IHE in Delft (Netherlands), followed by a master thesis research project in Kenya, Austria, the Netherlands or another partner institution in East Africa.

Fascination of Plants Day 2022: Insights into the fascinating world of plant research

Press release

The Plant Biotechnology Unit of BOKU, which celebrates its 35th anniversary this year, opens its doors on 18 May.

New Insitute of Green Civil Engineering at BOKU Vienna

Press release

Newly founded at BOKU: The Institute of Green Civil Engineering is the latest addition to the BOKU institutes. It is headed by Professor Benjamin Kromoser, who together with his working team investigates the best possible use of resources in the field of construction, with a special focus set on structural engineering.

Welcome Days at BOKU

BOKU celebrates together

Watch the Livestream

Josef Pleil Research Award 2022 of Österreichische Hagelversicherung goes to BOKU master student Johanna Moser

Press release

Johanna Moser, a student in the master's programme in viticulture, enology and wine economics at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, was awarded this year's Josef Pleil Research Prize of the Austrian Hail Insurance on 12 May 2022 at the BOKU site in Tulln for her Master thesis: "The effect of rootstocks on the grapevine cv. Blaufränkisch response to drought"

Prof. Ronaldo I. Borja, Stanford University -

"Failure in rocks: From breakage mechanics to phase-field modeling"

Prof. Borja from the Stanford University visits the Institute of Geotechnical Engineering in June. You are warmly welcome to join his lecture on Failure in Rocks on Tuesday, June 7.

Guest Professor Kristina Hill

The Institute of Landscape Architecture (ILA) welcome Professor Kristina Hill as Guest Professor. Public Lecture: 08.06.2022, 18:00 "Underground, underwater: design for a new planet" Seminarraum 06 Schwackhöfer-Haus (54 seats)

How a tiny bacterium kills ancient olive trees

The fire bacterium (Xylella fastidiosa) threatens the European olive tree population - in the Plant Biotechnology Unit of the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, scientists now want to breed resistant olive varieties.

Understanding the science behind vaccines

SARS-CoV2 related teaching: Guestprofessor Qiang Chen on virology, immunology and vaccinology.

Qiang Chen is Guestprofessor (School of Life Sciences, Biodesign Center for Immunotherapy, Vaccines and Virotherapy, Arizona State University) and holds the lecture blocked from 16th -27th May in hybrid manner. Please register now via bokuonline.

BOKU Rector Eva Schulev-Steindl ceremonially inaugurated

More than 200 representatives from science, politics and business attended the inauguration of Rector Schulev-Steindl and her team at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna.

NMR spectroscopy and its application to structural studies of biomolecules

Course starts May 17th - Registration in BOKUonline still possible

Visiting professor Francisco Blanco Gutierrez from the Biological Research Centre of the Spanish National research Council-CSIC will held the course in hybrid form at the Institute of Biophysics, Department of Nanobiotechnology.

Angela Sessitsch - Keynote Lecture at 7th WABO Student Conference 2022

The plant microbiome: from rhizosphere to seeds and applications to improve crop performance

Angela Sessitsch is one of the most influential researchers in Austria and one of the Highly Cited Researchers worldwide. She is internationally known for her work on the plant microbiome.

Texas blackout deciphered with the aid of environmental statistics

Was the 2021 Texas blackout event unpredictable or yet preventable? The BOKU study, just published in the journal Nature Energy, combines methods of environmental economy with extreme value statistics of low flow hydrology to estimate the occurrence risk of a new winter blackout in Texas.

BOKU invites you to immerse yourself in the Sustainable Development Goals experience "Life below water" at Agenda 2030 meeting

Press release

On 17 May, visitors to Tulln can experience how the implementation of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) can look like.

Internal EU call on soil management launched

The third internal call for proposals of the "EJP SOIL - Towards Climate-Smart Sustainable Management of Agricultural Soils" consortium is open. Twenty-six institutions that have committed themselves to the overarching goal of finding solutions for sustainable agricultural soil management can participate. BOKU could acquire up to 1.6 M€.

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