Danube Rectors' Conference

28th Annual Meeting & General Assembly and DRC Conference Nov. 17th - 18th 2011, BOKU Vienna. Registration deadline: October 20th.

Workshop

Working with our cultural values to achieve a sustainable future: 29th November 2011.

New Master's Programme

BOKU offers a new master's programme by 1 Oct 2011: "Applied Limnology" - Aquatic Ecosystem Management.

Danube Rectors' Conference

28th Annual Meeting & General Assembly and DRC Conference Nov. 17th - 18th 2011, BOKU Vienna

Admission to the winter term

This old admission information is no longer published, in order to avoid any mis-leading out-dated information. Only the current up-to-date information is available and will be found with Internet searches.

Chemical Imaging at UFT

Shortly, highly topical research projects that are using the new chemical imaging infrastructure will start at the BOKU campus Tulln.

archaeology on the mountain 2011

The Museum of Natural History and the BOKU dendrochronology-team present their research at the Hallstatt salt mines – and this year it’s all about wood!

The Danube Strategy

Moderated debate “The Danube Strategy – Prosperity through Environmental Management?” in the Hub, Vienna, on 29 June.

Deforestation and Desertification

The June Global Change and Sustainability in Focus topic is “Deforestation and Desertification”. Check out our homepage and  come to Café der Provinz on Tuesday, June 28th to discuss the topic!

Best paper award

Mag. Viktoria Gaß has been awarded the best paper in the topic Sustainable Transport at the World Renewable Energy Congress 2011.

Pre-registration for studies

If you would like to begin studying for a bachelor's or master's degree in the winter semester 2011/12, or if you would like to study for a further degree, it is mandatory that you register online in advance at the latest by 31st August.

Young Scientist Forum

The 6th Young Scientist Forum will take place on the 14th of June 2011 in the Hall of BOKU. The event will consist of interesting presentations and discussions on the topic "Food security".

Call for Papers

ELLS Scientific Student Conference 2011: Can agriculture feed the world? Call for papers, deadline June 30th.

Prof. Maramorosch

Prof. Karl Maramorosch, Wolf-Prize Winner in Agriculture (1980), visited the PBU, Dept. Biotechnology, VIBT, BOKU, Vienna.

Sensory Science

The European Sensory Science Society (E3S) was constituted in Florence (Italy) on the 12th of May 2011.

New Master's Programme

BOKU offers a new master's programme by 1 Oct 2011: "Applied Limnology" - Aquatic Ecosystem Management.

WhyELLS? WhatELLS!

Mobility at BOKU and the Euroleague for Life Sciences (ELLS): May 30th, 10:30 a.m., Muthgasse.

Initiative

Take part in the new initiative Global Change and Sustainability in Focus, learn about issues of global change and sustainability and meet new people! First meeting: 26th of April.

Summer School

Participation for BOKU students possible for the "Summer School Organic Food Production Chain". August 7-20, 2011, Poland.

World’s Large Rivers Conference

The “International Conference on the Status and Future of the World’s Large Rivers”will take place from 11th to 14th of April 2011 at the Vienna Austria Center.

Material of the Future: Wood

Within the „Wiener Vorlesungen” (Viennese Lectures) Alfred Teischinger will be speaking about the future of the material wood on April 1 at the “Großer Hörsaal” (main lecture hall), BOKU Vienna.

Green. Building. Solutions.

First hand ecological knowledge and engineering expertise bundled in a three-week program in the capital of energy efficient building: Vienna.

Best Article Award

Ataharul Chowdhury wins Best Article Award 2010.

Language courses

Application for the language courses of the summer term 2011: from Monday, February 14th, 8:00 a.m. until Thursday, February 24th, 2011.

BOKUcard

A new, electronic students id card - in the summer semester 2011 for newly admitted students only - in the winter semester 2011/12 for all BOKU students.

Admission to Summer Term

This old admission information is no longer published, in order to avoid any mis-leading out-dated information. Only the current up-to-date information is available and will be found with Internet searches.

BOKU Ball 2011 (sold out)

The Students' Association of the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (ÖH BOKU) cordially invites you to attend the BOKU ball 2011 on February 4, 2011. Please join us for a delightful evening at the Vienna Imperial Palace Hofburg.

BioCultural Diversity Course

"Biocultural Diversity: Concepts and Interdisciplinary Methods, with special focus on Local Peoples and Migrants in Europe". 27 of Feb. – 12 of March 2011 in Barcelona. Application for BOKU students for co-financed participation at the Erasmus Intensive programme now possible.

Merit Award

The Merit Award 2010 of the Federal Ministry of Science and Research was presented to the sub auspiciis candidate Dipl.-Ing. Christian Stanetty, Department of Chemistry, on 26 November 2010.

What sort of education?

Lecture on December 9th: Education is said to play a key role in a sustainable developement ...

Economy Meets Environment

Presentations followed by a discussion on the topic "Why Do We Need Biodiversity? On the Value of Species Diversity": Dr. Hille, DI Kieninger, em. o. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Holzner (BOKU) and Univ.-Prof. Dr. Spash (WU) come together in the setting of the Bank Austria lecture series "Economy Meets Environment", held in cooperation with the BOKU and the WU. 6 December 2010, 18h00, Schottengasse 6-8.

VIBT Imaging Center

The BOKU-VIBT Imaging Center opens its doors. Invitation to the presentation on December 6th.

Biorefineries

White Biotechnology. More than 80 participants were highly interested in international trends, research and further plans of the BOKU Network for Bioconversion of Renewables presented in the course of a workshop on Oct. 27.

Plenary meeting

To protest against budget reductions, all Austrian universities organize plenary meetings on October 19th. All students, lectureres, researchers and staff members of the BOKU are invited to take part at the students campaigns (9:00 a.m.), the plenary meeting (2.00 p.m.), and the rally (3:30 p.m.). The afternoon is free of lectures.

BOKUonline in English

The BOKUonline system is now bi-lingual in most of its parts!

Award for VIRIS Labor

Marion Brunner and Johanna Irrgeher received the award for "best presentations of emerging scientists" at the 22nd ICP-MS User Meeting 2010 in Berlin.

United Against Hunger

Benedito Cunguara (Centre for Development Research & Institute of Agricultural and Forestry Economics) talks at the forthcoming event “United Against Hunger” on the occasion of the World Food Day 2010 of the United Nations and the World Womens Day 2010. The event will take place on October 4, 2010 at the Diplomatic Academy Vienna.

CDR at Hunger.Macht.Profite.

The Filmtage “Hunger.Macht.Profite.” organised by Normale, FIAN, ÖBV and Attac focuses on the Right to Food. On that occasion Birgit Habermann (Department of Sustainable Agricultural Systems & partner of the Centre for Development Research discusses the film „Hijacked Future“ on October 7 at 7 pm. In German.

Inge Dirmhirn Prize 2010

Call for applications
The prize for master´s (or diploma) theses and dissertations is awarded by BOKU´s equal opportunities working party. The work must concern at least in part the field of womens´s studies and gender research. Submission deadline: 29th October 2010

Language courses applications

You can apply for the language courses of the winter term 2010/11 now, until Sunday, October 3rd, 2010!

BOKU at Tropentag

Follow the Tropentag conference 14th - 16th September 2010 in Zurich via blog or Facebook.

Language courses

The application for the language courses of the winter term 2010/11 will start on Monday, September 13th, 2010.

EU - Latin America Cooperation

You plan a cooperation with partners in Latin America? You want to intensify existing contacts? Inform yourself about current funding opportunities targeting Latin America in FP7 and teaching. Benefit from the knowledge of successful colleagues and their project-presentations. When: 2010-10-06, 9-12 am. Where? BOKU, festival room

New PhD Programme BioToP

Second call for the international PhD Programme „Biomolecular Technology of Proteins - BioToP“ is open now.  Application deadline: September 30th, 2010. For detailed information and application guidelines please visit: http://biotop.boku.ac.at

Students in earthquake area

Within a course at the Institute for Structural Engineering (IKI) under the guidance of Prof. Bergmeister, students planned the rebuilding of an former kindergarten to a community center for the city of Onna in the italian earthquake area of L´Aquila.

Admission to Winter Term

This old admission information is no longer published, in order to avoid any mis-leading out-dated information. Only the current up-to-date information is available and will be found with Internet searches.

Learning beyond conventions

For the fifth time BOKU is organising the "International Training Course on Organic Agriculture" in Uganda. Together with East African colleagues, BOKU students learn about how to spark innovation in organic agriculture in East Africa.

Diversity on the spot

Global Conventions – Local Implication. Events organized by the BOKU Platform for Nature Conservation and Biodiversity Research in the year of biodiversity - 2010

New PhD Programme BioToP

First call for the international PhD Programme "Biomolecular Technology of Proteins - BioToP" is open now.  Application deadline: May 15th, 2010. For detailed information and application guidelines please visit:  http://biotop.boku.ac.at/

EFICEEC Head of Office

Dr. Bernhard Wolfslehner, PhD (Forestry) has been appointed Head of Office of the Central-East European Regional Office - EFICEEC of the European Forest Institute (EFI).

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