Best Poster Award Elisabeth Lobner

Elisabeth Lobner, PhD student at the Department of Chemistry and member of the PhD program BioToP, won the Best Poster Award at the “European Congress on Biotechnology – ECB16” (Edinburgh, July 2014).

Regenerative Medicine and Tissue Engineering

BOKU hosted the pre-conference workshop “Regenerate” ahead of a major conference in September in Valencia.

One author

two poster awards

Dipl. Ing. Oberlerchner Josua has won poster prizes at two international conferences.

International Summer School

"Plant and Fish Biodiversity in the Danube Delta"

within the frame of the CASEE network

Biosphere n+1

A transdisciplinary play in 3 acts

In the course of an event with the title “Biosphere n+1”, students from the master program “Art & Science” of the University of Applied Arts and the Doctoral School of Sustainable Development (dokNE) reflected on the area of tension between real and modelled worlds.

Admission and Students' Records (STUDABT) closed due to relocation!

02-06-14 to 06-06-14

Application deadline: 20th June for the international BOKU Master's programme that won the Sustainability-Award!

The ÖH BOKU event calendar for May

Focus: Food is human rights: the preciousness of foo

EUR-Organic wants you!

1st of June 2014 is the application deadline for the EUR-Organic: Get your international career started & apply now!

Univ. Prof. Dr. Bernhard Freyer was invited to IATP-Meeting

Think Global, Build Social!

Architectures For A Better World

Projects by landscape architecture students shown in the exhibition in Architektur Zentrum Wien 15. März 2014 - 30. Juni 2014, every day 10-19:00

Career goal: sustainability expert in the Danube region?

- BOKU offers the ideal Master's program for this! International Joint Degree Program "Sustainable Agriculture, Food Production and Food Technology in the Danube Region" (Danube AgriFood Master / DAFM) The international Master's program is focused on sustainability in agriculture and food industry in the Danube region, combined with intercultural training (9 partner universities).

Sensory and Consumer Science - Thinking out of the Box

Symposium of the Sensorik Netzwerk Österreich SNÖ in partnership with the European Sensory Science Society E3S

The 1964 Vienna International Garden Exhibition - Green post-War Modernism

The opening of what was then Europe's largest garden show was celebrated 50 years ago, in April 1964. About 2.3 million people visited the WIG, turning it into a landmark event in the history of post-war Vienna that left its traces in the collective memory and, above all, gave rise to one of the biggest 20th-century parks in Vienna, the "Donaupark".

Climate change and bees

Students of the Sir Karl Popper school research at BOKU Tulln

Within the Young Science research project "Climate Research in Austria - the future we want", pupils of the Sir Karl Popper School Vienna (SKP) visited the VIRIS laboratory for Analytical Ecogeochemistry on University and Research Tulln (UFT) .

ILA reported UNESCO

In April, staff members of the Institute of Landscape Architecture will speak at a UNESCO conference on autochthonous features of open spaces in South East Europe.

One Year Later!

Club Biotech is glad to invite you to its next interactive talk “One Year Later” dealing with future perspectives of life science students and graduates. March 27th, 2014, 18:00 at HS XXI, Muthgasse 18

Guest professor Ronaldo I. Borja, Stanford University:

PERSISTENT SHEAR BAND IN UNSATURATED POROUS MATERIALS

On March 28, 2014 Prof. Ronaldo I. Borja, professor at Stanford University and long-term project partner of the Institute of Geotechnical Engineering, will hold a lecture on the topic "Persistent Shear Band in Unsaturated Porous Materials".

Welcome

to our new BOKUweb

Since March 20 the website of the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences has had a fresh look. Enjoy browsing through!

PNAS Special Feature

on “Global Climate Impacts: A Cross-Sector, Multi-Model Assessment” with BOKU participation.

Learning together!

Apply HERE for the International Training Course on Organic Agriculture l Uganda l July 9-30, 2014 l A unique learning opportunity on organic farming and rural development.

Visiting professor Örjan Bodin

Professor Bodin is theme leader Adaptive governance, networks and learning at theStockhom Resilience Centre. He joins BOKU for a seminar and an evening event.

BOKU in PNAS

In the course of the BOKU-IIASA collaboration, an article on “Climate change mitigation through livestock system transitions” has been published in PNAS.

Designing the Nature of the Green Belt

Summer School: Application Deadline prolonged!

The Institute of Landscape Architecture, and the Institute of Spatial Planning and Rural Development are hosting a summer school to explore the role and potential of the green belt as a spatial instrument in a peripheral territory of Vienna. Master-level students from the fields of landscape architecture, spatial planning, geography, natural resource management, ecological engineering, and related fields are invited to participate. Application Deadline: May 2, 2014 Dates: August 2 – 10, 2014

On Stage Vienna

Invitation to Exhibition:
Portraits and Projects of Experts in the Fields of Feminist and Gender Planning. Vernissage: March 27th, 2014, 6.00 p.m.

Successful China Workshop

A delegation of the IFA-Tulln together with colleagues from the Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT) organized a workshop with the focus on soil and ground water remediation in Shanghai and Beijing.

Doctoral Certificate Program in Agricultural Economics

BOKU students can choose from over 30 courses on doctoral level and acquire an additional certificate.

Site Visit of Peers

During the on-site visit for the quality audit on March 6th and 7th, the peers will gain insight into the quality management system of BOKU.

Rural Women Day 2014

on March 6th, 2014, 5 p.m. in the BOKU Festsaal.

New Strategies against Parasites

Parasites cause a number of diseases: a new Marie Curie Network with Iain Wilson as partner will train young parasitologists.

AIESEC Recruitment

Are you young, motivated and open to the world? Then come and join AIESEC, the world's largest studen-run organisation and make a positive impact on our society!

Viennese Seminars in Hydrology

A joint hydrology seminar series is being initiated by TU Vienna and BOKU in the summer semester 2014.

Lasswell Prize 2013

Reinhard Steurer from the Institute of Forest, Environment and Resource Policy has been awarded with the „Harold D. Lasswell Prize” for the best article in the journal “Policy Sciences” in 2013.

ERASMUS+

The new EU educational programme's offers for BOKU staff. Infosession of the Center for International Relations, 28.2.2014, 9 - 10:30 am.

Beginner in summer term 2014

You begin to study at the BOKU in Februar 2014? Come to the beginners' tutorium of the students union (ÖH BOKU)!

Biogas Science 2014

Call for Abstracts – international scientific conference Biogas Science 2014

When ninety quarrel ...

... the first rejoices: the project ‚INnovative Conservation Agriculture Approaches‘ has been selected for the ERAfrica-program. The Centre for Development Research - BOKU is part of the consortium.

Summer School: Green Belt

ILA and IRUB are hosting an ELLS summer school to explore the role and potential oft he green belt in a peripheral territory of Vienna. Deadline for Application: March 31, 2014!

Planting Design Principles

Lectures and Open Studio by Piet Oudolf and Noёl Kingsbury, focusing ecological based planting design with high aesthetic impact in private and public spaces, Friday 7/03/2014, Saturday 8/03/2014, BOKU - fully booked!

Quality documentation published

Preparing for the on-site visit of the peers in March 2014 for the quality audit the quality documentation of BOKU has been published.

Freshwater Biodiversity Atlas

The first Global Atlas of Freshwater Biodiversity was launched online. 

ProAlp Summer School 2014

BOKU is organizing an ELLS summer school with the topic "Land Protection and Water Management in an Alpine Environment". Application deadline is 1 March 2014!

Ethics Charta

Discussion of the BOKU Ethics Charta – Win € 3.000!

Dual Career

To make Vienna more attractive to researchers from around the world and to boost its position as an international centre for research ...

Curry as a remedy for cancer

Using nanotechnology to package up a component commonly found in curry in a fatty nanoparticle, a team of scientists surrounding Mehmet Ücisik ...

Your opinion counts!

The BOKU internal discussion on the Ethics Charta begins.

Theme month Ball(un)culture

The ÖH-Theme month in January: Ball(un)culture - All waltz, or what?

Biogas Science 2014

Call for Abstracts – international scientific conference Biogas Science 2014

Merry Christmas and a happy New Year

Best wishes from Martin Gerzabek in the name of the rectorate.

Dynamics in proteins

Supported by a Hertha Firnberg Fellowship, Katharina Pirker (Dep. of Chemistry) investigates the dynamics of enzymes by pulsed EPR.

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