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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.

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

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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.

DLG Innovation Award “Young Ideas” – BOKU researcher honored

Congratulation to Dr. Lisa Call of the Institute of Plant Breeding

Dr. Lisa Call from the Department of Crop Sciences received the DLG Innovation Award “Young Ideas” for the high practical relevance of her PhD thesis

Prof. William D. J. KIRK guest at Plant Protection

The Division of Plant Protection cordially welcomes Guest Professor William Kirk from Keele University, UK.

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.

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€.

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