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).

Agrinatura vice presidency

Michael Hauser, Centre for Development Research, becomes the vice president of the AGRINATURA association. He takes over from Didier Pillot, who becomes the new AGRINATURA president. AGRINATURA encompasses 32 European universities and research organizations concerned with agricultural research, education, training and capacity strengthening for development.

Principles and Development of Bio-Inspired Materials

COST Strategic Workshop: 13-15 April 2010: Representatives of natural science, medicine and industry were invited to report on the latest state of knowledge.

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/

Water Capacity Development

May I draw your attention to the presentation "Information and Knowledge Sharing: An Essential Tool to Capacity Development in the Water Sector - the Role of Universities" at BOKU Festsaal on March 23, 2010. Everybody interested in Development Cooperation should take the opportunity to discuss this topic.

A revolution in artificial snow production

International collaboration between scientists of the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU), the Technical University Vienna (TU), the Moscow State University (MSU) and Energy International Systems Ltd. (EIS) have developed the “Dendrite Generator”, a device for artificial snow production. Since February 1st, 2010 the scientists at BOKU are working on a first prototype of this technology.

Global Environmental Governance

Prof. Dr. B.J.M. (Bas) Arts, Head of Forest and Nature Conservation Policy Group at Wageningen University and Research Centre (the Netherlands) will offer a MSc course on “Global Environmental Governance” at BOKU (free elective course, 2 ECTS, registration at BOKUonline until 1st of March!)

Language Courses at BOKU

Course registration for the summer term 2010 within the BOKUonline system from Feb 1st to Feb 14th 2010.

Admission Summer Term 2010

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.

Best Communication Award for Research on Licorice

The Best Communication Award at the 13th Electronic Conference on Synthetic Organic Chemistry (ECSOC-13) has been presented to the ASPEX project team TU Wien-BOKU-Onepharm.

World-wanderer - 20.000 km of hiking

Gregor Sieböck has walked on foot through half the world. Now, he has hiked across the Alps to France, along the Franziskus pilgrim trail to Italy and from the pittoresque fjords of Norway to the North. Impressive pictures narrate stories of the magic beauty of the moment. Tuesday, 26. January 2010, 19:00 HSXX, Muthgasse 18, 1190 Vienna

IGN Award to Dr. Sabine Dippel

PhD thesis on lameness in dairy cattle was awarded the Science Award of the International Society of Livestock Husbandry (IGN).

Guest lecture Prof. Robert Costanza

"Creating a Sustainable and Desirable Future",  Monday November 9th, 2009, at 6:00 p.m. in the BOKU Festsaal.

Guest lecturer Wolfgang Liebert

Dr. Wolfgang Liebert, IANUS, Technical University of Darmstadt, is guest lecturer at the ISRS of the Department of Civil Engineering and Natural Hazards. His lecture on “Nuclear Risks” begins on October 28th 2009 and that on “Design of Research and Technology in View of their Ambivalence” on October 29th, in the framework of the lecture cycle “Courage to go for Sustainability”.

Long Night of Research at the BOKU

From 6 to 10 p.m. on November 7th several lectures will be dealing with the topic of “Sustainable spatial development of urban and rural areas” at the Institute of Spatial Planning and Rural Development.

Poster Award

Ronald Mihala DI and Panagiotis Spyridis DI, currently doctoral students and Prof. Konrad Bergmeister at the Department of Civil Engineering and Natural Hazards, Institute of Structural Engineering, were awarded the 1st place in the poster session of this year’s ‘5th Central European Congress on Concrete Engineering’ in Baden (September 24th - 25th 2009).

Courage for Sustainability

Start of the lecture series

Inge Dirmhirn Prize 2009 - Call for applications

The prize for masters (or diploma) theses and dissertations is awarded by BOKUs equal opportunities working party. The work must concern at least in part the field of women's studies and gender research. Submission deadline: 27th October 2009.

Philipp Weihs Honorary Professor

Prof. Philipp Weihs from University of Applied Life Sciences and Natural Ressources was awarded on 7. September 2009 the title of honorary professor of the Szent Istvan University in Gödöllö, Hungary.

Opening of the Centre for Development Research

In October 2009 the Centre for Development Research, in short 'CDR', starts its work and therefore cordially invites to the opening function 'Seeking opportunities in times of crises' on 14. October 2009.

Language Courses at BOKU

Information for BOKUonline course registration

Urban-Net Workshop of the GDUS network

European Seminar on Gender awareness and Diversity for Urban Sustainability at BOKU Vienna, 15th - 18th September 2009

BOKUonline has replaced BLIS

BOKUonline is the new education information system of the BOKU university. How can it be used by students and lecturers?

Move from BLIS to BOKUonline

The new education managment system BOKUonline is available since August 18th 2009. The old system BLIS remains available as an archive system in the read-only mode. Within the BLIS archive, you can still read the old data. New data, however, can be accessed only in the new system BOKUonline.

Admission Winter Term 2009/10

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.

New Master program: Alpine Natural Hazards / Torrent and Avalanche Control

The new Master program starts on 1st of October 2009. The course language is German.

Go Organic: Students on the way to Africa

For the fourth time BOKU is organising the „International Training Course on Organic Agriculture (ITCOA)“ in Uganda. Together with East African students, BOKU students learn about organic agriculture in East Africa across disciplines.

Agrinatura - Europe's Voice for Development

The field of agricultural research and education for development has an even stronger voice: AGRINATURA - "The European Alliance on Agricultural Knowledge for Development".

Introducing the Master Study Programme "Mountain Forestry"

Short presentations and discussions in the "World Café" with students from (almost) all over the world. Snacks will be served afterwards: Monday, 22.06.2009, 18:30 – 20:00, seminar room 06, F. Schwackhöfer House

1st International Conference on Landscape Economics

The European Consortium for Landscape Economics (CEEP) is pleased to announce the first International Conference on Landscape Economics, taking place on 2nd, 3rd and 4th July, 2009 at Vienna, Austria

10th Joint TFEIP/EIONET meeting

The Task Force on Emission Inventories and Projections is a group of experts organised through EMEP. The meeting is a joint meeting with EIONET, a network of national representatives focusing on information exchange.

Microbial Stress - from Molecules to Systems

A conference with the topic " microbial stress" will be held in Hotel Panhans from May 7th to May 10th 2009. The conference has been organised with the help of BOKU and FH Campus Wien under the auspices of the European Federation of Biotechnology.

Morphic Resonance and the Memory of Nature

The world known scientist Rupert Sheldrake will give an exclusive lecture at the BOKU Vienna under the title "A New Science of Life".
Tuesday, 05.Mai 2009, 19:30 HSXX, Muthgasse 18, 1190 Vienna

Landscape - great idea!

X-LArch III International Conference on Landscape Architecture: April 29th - May 1st, Schwackhöferhaus SR 06 and SR09, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria

2nd International Multidisciplinary Conference on Hydrology and Ecology: Ecosystems Interfacing with Groundwater and Surface Water (20-23 April 2009)

The conference is jointly organised by  IWHW-BOKU and the International Commission on Groundwater (ICGW), of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague. The main goal of the conference is to improve the scientific knowledge about the interactions between groundwater, surface water and ecology.

ELLS - Intensive Programs and Summer Schools 2009

Each summer the Euroleague for Life Sciences organizes intensive programs in different European countries. For BOKU-students and students of the partner universities these courses afford a unique opportunity to gain international practical experience and ECTS-points.

FORED Project Bhutan

The research partnership CORET between RNR-RC Jakar, Bhutan and BOKU, Institute of Forest Ecology enters the third phase under the name of FORED (Forest Research for Development).  Training and research for development are supposed to make a contribution to an improved management of resources and thereby to poverty alleviation.

3rd BOKU Waste Conference

he Institute of Waste Management at the BOKU-University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, organises the "3rd BOKU Waste Conference" taking place from April 15th to 17th, 2009. The focus of this conference lies on "Prosperity Waste and Waste Resources".

Poster Award for Master Student at the VIRIS Lab

Johanna Irrgeher BSc, currently master student at the Department of Chemistry, Division of Analytical Chemistry, VIRIS Laboratory, was awarded the 3rd place in the poster session of this year’s ‘European Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry’ in Graz (February 15th - 20th 2009).

Professorships at the BOKU

Currently there are several advertisements for professorships at the BOKU. You can find them at this address: http://www.boku.ac.at/professuren-ausschreibungen.html?L=1

Most cited paper

ABF-BOKU submitted most cited paper in the leading Waste Management
journal (Elsevier Science Ltd.)

PRE-REGISTRATION NOW

German Intensive Language Courses (Beginners & Refresher) are held over a 50 hours-period  from 9th to the 20th February 2009. There are only a limited number of places in both courses. Pre-Registration is compulsory.
sprachkurse@boku.ac.at

INITS Award 2008

Ms. Marion Brunner, phD student since 2007 at the Department of Chemistry, Division of Analytical Chemistry, VIRIS Lab at the university of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, won the 3rd prize.

Best poster award for Luke Omondi Olang

Mr. Luke Omondi Olang, a researcher from Egerton University in Kenya, who is currently undertaking his doctorate studies at the Institute of Water Management, Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering, BOKU University, Vienna with the support of the ÖAD North-South-Dialogue Scholarship Programme, recently was awarded the best poster presentation for his contribution to the "12th Biennial Conference of the Euro-Mediterranean Network of  Experimental and Representative Basins (ERB), Hydrological Extremes in Small Basins" held in Cracow from September 18th - 20th , 2008.

Long Night of Research at the BOKU

"What does the future of growing old in the country look like?", "Spatial planning measures for flood protection" and "What do soil and climate protection have in common?" are the titles of the three stations of the "Long Night of Research 2008" on Saturday from 4:25 - 8:30 p.m. at the Institute of Spatial Planning in the top floor of the Wilhelm-Exner Building.

BOKU scientist awarded to give the Annual Distinguished Ethnobotanist Lecture at Kew Gardens, UK.

Austrian Alpine Ethnobotany: Examples and Trends of the Use and Management of Plant Species in the Austrian Alps Christian R. Vogl currentlya present as Annual Distinguished Ethnobotanist Lecturer at  Kew Botanical Garden sponsored by the Anthropology Department of  the University of Kent, the Global Diversity Foundation and the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Plenary lecture: Jodrell Lecture Theatre, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Tuesday 28 October 2008, 17.00 prompt.

u:book - Notebooks for BOKU students and staff

At the beginning of each semester - currently between Sept 22 and Oct 19 - BOKU students and staff members can buy business notebooks for MS-Windows, Linux/Ubunto or Mac OS X (Apple) at special bargain prices.

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