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Daniel Burgstaller as student finalist at the Merck Award 2018

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

ASAC - Fritz-Feigl-Preis 2018

awarded to Johanna Irrgeher

The Austrian Society for Analytical Chemistry (ASAC) awarded the Fritz Feigl Prize 2018 for scientific achievements in the field of analytical chemistry to Dr. Johanna Irrgeher from the Department of Chemistry for her research work in the field of elemental and isotope analysis.

Explore Vienna’s Culture of Remembrance 1945-2015

The project “Politics of Remembrance and the Transition of Public Spaces: A Political and Social Analysis of Vienna” (POREM) investigated the memorial landscape of Vienna dealing with political violence by the Austrofascist (1934-1938) and the National Socialist (1938-1945) regimes. Now the interactive maps are available!

Olena Ivanik

Guest professor at the Institute of Geotechnical Engineering

Prof. Dr. Olena Ivanik (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kiev) visited our institute as a guest professor from the 19th to the 22nd November, 2018.

The 2018 PhD Award of the International Academy of Wood Science (IAWS) goes to Dr. Marco Beaumont

The doctoral thesis of Marco Beaumont was awarded with the 2018 PhD Award of the “International Academy of Wood Science” (IAWS), which recognizes outstanding PhD research in the field of wood science and lignocellulose research worldwide.

Highest national honor for BOKU chemist

Prof. Dr. Paul Kosma, head of the Division of Organic Chemistry at the BOKU Department of Chemistry, was awarded the “Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art, 1st class”, the highest national recognition of merits in science.

Great Wall of Tara Gadam

It may not be visible from space unlike its Chinese counterpart, but the protecting wall funded by the Institute of Forest Ecology led project CARBOPART has become a flagship intervention in forest protection in Ethiopia

FINAL CONFERENCE of the projects SPARE and AlpES

21 | 22 November 2018, Innsbruck

The projects AlpES and SPARE of the European Alpine Space Programme are pleased to invite you to their final conference on 21st and 22nd November 2018 at the venue "Haus der Begegnung" in Innsbruck, Rennweg 12, Austria.

EcoVeloTour

The IVe is participating in the Interreg project EcoVeloTour, which facilitates the development of sustainable tourism in the Danube region along the EuroVelo routes.