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BOKU Lehrpreis 2022

Deadline: 30th of June 2022

The submission for the BOKU Lehrpreis 2022 is possible in three different categories. Take your chance and make your teaching visible!

BOKU on its way to climate neutrality

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In line with the motto "avoidance and reduction comes before compensation", BOKU wants to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions and also compensate for unavoidable residual emissions via climate protection projects from 2030 at the latest. The share of residual emissions should continue to decrease after 2030.

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!

Course evaluation @ BOKUonline

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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

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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.

ELLS Scientific Student Conference

Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, 23-24. September 2022

New deadline for Abstract Submission: 31.05.2022

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

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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

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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

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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.

Watch the Livestream

Our researchers and renowned keynote speakers will speak in the Aula der Wissenschaften about the most the most pressing issues of the future.

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

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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€.

Be there in the BOKU livestream

Samariter Laden Purkersdorf donates valuable chance find to BOKU

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Earth scientists made a special discovery with rarity value in the "SamLa - der Samariterladen" in Purkersdorf, a shop of the Samariterbund. Volumes of the so-called "Kronprinzenwerk" (Crown Prince's Work) were offered for sale here among crockery, coffee machines and pieces of furniture for a good cause. The SamLa now handed over the edition of the "Kronprinzenwerk" to the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, which thus complements the historical collection of Crown Prince Rudolf.

Agrana Research Support

3500 Euro for Dissertations and Habilitations

In the fields of Environment and Bio-Resources Management, Agroeconomics, Agricultural policy and food science, Organic Agricultural Systems and Agroecology, Sustainability and Renewable Resources. Applications are requested until 19 May 2022

City of Vienna Anniversary Fund for the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna

Call 2022 - now open for submissions!

Research projects in connection with the topic "Viennese) Ways into the Future / Visions of a Sustainable Metropolitan Region: of Cycles and Interactions" can be funded, as well as outstanding publications and scientific theses.

Innovation to market - Innovation Award 2022

1st prize €1,500 2nd prize €1,000 3rd prize €500

We are looking for innovative inventions and research results that have the potential for further economic development and use. Send your documents to the Techtransfer tto@boku.ac.at by May 23rd!

Founder Award PHÖNIX for BOKU Spin-Off "Agrobiogel

The BOKU spin-off "Agrobiogel" was awarded this year's Phoenix Start-up Prize in the "Spin-off" category on Wednesday evening. The agrochemical gel enables (crop) plants to survive dry periods over longer periods of time by slowly releasing water to the plants.

Plastic Age - Forever?

Kicking off the film screening is the One Earth Awards Film Festival, India with a jury of Grammy & Oscar winners - screening date: end of June. All those who don't want to travel to India can watch the film (German or English) online now!

BOKU and Japan - Cooperation in the past and future

The livestream of the event is now available to watch!

On the initiative of Rector Eva Schulev-Steindl and Wolfgang Mazal (Co-Chair of the Japanese-Austrian Committee for Future Affairs, University of Vienna and Kyoto University), an event on BOKU's cooperation with Japanese universities was held on 14 April 2022 in the presence of H.E. the Japanese Ambassador, Akira Mizutani, as part of the 150th anniversary celebrations of the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna.

The 2022 ACS CELL Division Graduate Student Award has been awarded to Paul Jusner

Paul Jusner from the Institute of Chemistry of Renewable Resources received the graduate student award 2022 of the American Chemical Society CELL Division for his dissertation.

AEMS Summer School

3 scholarships for BOKU students!

The Summer School "Alternative Economic and Monetary Systems" (AEMS, 5 ECTS) will take place from July 18 to August 5, 2022: The program is open to motivated applicants from all fields of study and focuses on climate change, limits to growth, the role of money and the instabilities of the financial system.

BOKU and Japan

Co-operation in Past and Future

April 14 from 9 a.m. LIVESTREAM on boku.ac.at

Poker Game with Electricity: What Blackouts in Texas Have to Do with the Energy Transition

Press release

Extreme weather events like the cold snap that hit Texas in February 2021 are very rare. But when they do occur, they cause enormous financial and humanitarian damage. A research team from BOKU set out to find the reasons for the lack of preventive measures and has now published its findings in the renowned journal Nature Energy.

Changing ozone distribution influences climate change more strongly than previously assumed

Presse release

Ozone is one of the strongest greenhouse gases after carbon dioxide and methane. Since 1955, its concentration in the atmosphere has changed significantly. A new study with participation of BOKU Vienna now shows that this is also responsible for about one third of the changed heat absorption capacity in the Southern Ocean and thus weakens one of the most important cooling mechanisms of the Earth much more than previously thought.

Farewell lecture by Univ.Prof. Alois Jungbauer

One of the most renowned BOKU researchers spoke last Friday, 25 March, on the topic "Is Current Bioprocessing Fit for the Future?". Watch it now on Youtube.

Green.Building.Solutions.

Register now! Takes place in-person in Vienna from 16 - August 07, 2022

(GBS) is a Summer University that aims at increasing knowledge of and raising awareness for sustainability in the field of building, construction and urban planning. With a duration of three weeks, the academic program takes place for the 12th time from July 16 to August 07, 2022.

BOKU and Japan – Co-operation in Past and Future

Registration deadline: 7. April 2022

More than 30 years of collaboration between BOKU and Japan are a good occasion in BOKU's anniversary year to take a closer look on past and future co-operation in a hybrid event on 14th of April with our Japanese Partner Universities.

Information about the worldwide climate strike on March 25

BOKU meeting point (organized by the ÖH BOKU):

When? Friday, March 25, 1:30 p.m.
Where? Stubentor - next to the kebap stand opposite the subway station

The war in Ukraine and the consequences for agricultural markets and security of supply

Press release

On the occasion of the current events, the BOKU Center for Agricultural Sciences and the Austrian Society for Agricultural Economics invited agricultural experts to a fact check - and to give their assessment of the situation.

BOKU on World Water Day: New study on pollutants in water

Press release

World Water Day turns twenty and BOKU celebrates with new study results: since 2019, the EU project bODEREC-CE has been initializing pilot areas in Central Europe for monitoring pollutants from pharmaceuticals and personal care products in water, which have received little attention so far. Now the results are presented.

"Österreich forscht" on Radio Orange

BOKU in the news

On Monday, the first episode of the series "Wissen macht Leute" - the Citizen Science Podcast of Österreich forscht - went on air. The platform "Österreich forscht" is coordinated by BOKU.

Day of the Forest: BOKU Forestry Studies make a significant contribution to forest and climate protection

Press release

Austria is a forest country: almost half of its area is covered with forests. Therefore, it is obvious that a lot of research is done on this topic, for example on the question how our forests can be preserved even in the climate crisis.

Understanding Wind Power - Integrative Research

The livestream to rewatch

However, in order to enable sensible and sustainable operation, a wide variety of aspects of the interaction of wind turbines with the environment, but also with social acceptance, must be taken into account. How do we deal with the challenges of recycling, landscape change or biodiversity loss in terms of climate protection? On the occasion of these central questions, the BOKU Energy Cluster invited to the event on March 15th.

Science in dialogue: How can we communicate research in an understandable way?

Panel discussion on March 15th

On the occasion of the art project "Fermenting Futures" the initiators from the Institute of Microbiology and Microbial Biotechnology (BOKU) and the Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology (acib) invite to a live discussion at the Künstlerhaus Wien.