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).

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".

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