Best Paper Award

MMag. Georg Lehecka from the Institute for Sustainable Economic Development has received the Best Paper Award of the GEWISOLA annual conference 2013 in Berlin.

New CD Laboratory granted

CD Laboratory on Biotechnology of Skin Aging, with Johannes Grillari (BOKU VIBT) and Florian Gruber (Medical University of Vienna).

IMPROVE-P

A new three-year EU project has started in June 2013 in the frame of the research network CORE Organic II. The Division of Organic Farming is part of the international consortium.

ELLS Conference 2013

PhD-Programmes: Education and Research. Opportunities within Horizon2020 and Erasmus+, BOKU, 14./15.11.2013  - Register now!

EUR-Organic

The international Master programme Organic Agricultural Systems and Agroecology (EUR-Organic) started in September.

Fish Fighting Hunger

A Burkina Faso and Austrian partnership on sustainable fisheries and water management is fighting hunger in Sub Saharan Africa.

Dirmhirn prize and scholarship

Inge Dirmhirn Prize and Scholarship 2013 for gender-specific theses - call for applications.

Call in Societal Transformation

European Joint Programming Initiative "JPI Climate" 2013 call opens on September 30th.

Freshers' tutorial

Orientation tutorial for all first-year students in the first week of October. Start: Sept 30th, 10 am, Aula Schwackhöfer building

Conference

Urban Gardening by and with women:
Sept 13th and 14th at the BOKU.

New: Master EUR-Organic

Apply now for the international ELLS Master for WS 2013 at BOKU!

Posteraward at the EGU for VIRIS Lab

At EGU 2013 General Assembly Leo Kirchmaier from the Department of Chemistry received an "Outstanding student poster award".

Co-operation agreement signed with the University of Zagreb

Co-operation agreements with the Faculties of Agriculture and Forestry of the University of Zagreb were extended

Rhizosphere Research

Andreas Kreuzeder was awarded with the prize for the best oral contribution at the 9th Young Analytical Scientists Forum.

Admission winter term

General enrolment:
June 25th to September 5th, 2013.
Late enrolment:
September 6th to November 30th.
Online Pre-registration for new BOKU students.

WISBA

Wienerberger Sustainable Building Academy, an international funded education program for Master students, Sept 2013 bis März 2014.

Award for Oliver Meixner

Outstanding Paper Award Winner of Emerald for Oliver Meixner and Viktoria Knoll (BOKU).

Conference

Urban Gardening by and with women:
Sept 13th and 14th at the BOKU.

Theodor Körner prize

Alba Hykollari was awarded with one of this year’s Theodor Körner prizes for the scientific project “Comparative N-glycome analysis in filamentous fungi”.

Administration Award

Austrian Administration Award 2013: recognition award for the gender mainstreaming manual in urban planning.

Scientific Student Conference

of the Euroleague for Life Sciences (ELLS): Sustainability Challenge - Technological advancements and other solutions (BOKU, 15. / 16. 11. 2013), abstracts deadline 15. 6. 2013.

bodenKULTURfest'13 today

in the Exner und Schwackhöfer buildings today from 10 a.m. until late in the night.

Bad Chemistry

An exhibition at BOKU Muthgasse that plays on the frictional areas between the dispositives of art and science.

Poster award for VIRIS Lab

At EGU 2013 General Assembly, Sophie Gangl from the Department of Chemistry received an “Outstanding student poster award“.

Regulation with taxes

Discuss with senior personalities the current challenges and issues in the EU: May 23rd, 7:00 p.m., EU building, Wipplinger Straße 35.

Course evaluation

The questionnaire for evaluating the courses of the summer term 2013 is available from May 13th to 26th within BOKUonline.

WAU Department Day 2013

On 22nd of May 2013, the Department of Water, Atmosphere and Environment presents its various fields of research at a brown bag meeting.

TUN Grand prize

for the renewable mobile-device-body project of the Institute of Natural Materials Technology, IFA Tulln.

Plant Biotechnology

A guided tour through the lab and greenhouse of PBU - 25 years of plant biotechnology research.

EU job info day

What kind of jobs are there suitable for BOKU graduates? How to apply for an EU job? Monday, the 6th of May, Festsaal.

Student's union elections

May, 14 - May, 16. Vote your representatives for the student's union! Every vote counts!

Ferchau Innovation Prize

The LikeMeat Team with the Dept. of Food Science and Technology was honoured with the FERCHAU Innovation Prize 2013.

In memoriam

Kunal Mahajan, a member of the International Graduate School BioNanoTech (IGS), died on March 25th.

Scientific Student Conference

of the Euroleague for Life Sciences (ELLS): Sustainability Challenge (BOKU, 15./16.11.2013), course start 2.5.2013, abstracts 15.6.2013.

Forest-Wood-Material

Analysis of the historical wood utilization based on the objects of the Austrian Open Air Museum Stübing.

Quality Audit @ BOKU

Quality Audit, planned for 2013-14, presented by Dr. Hopbach (CEO of AQ Austria) and Rector Gerzabek on March 22nd.

International Soil Workshop

Sustainable land use, soil protection and rural development in the Danube region, April 17th - 18th, UFT Tulln.

Graeme Hammer visiting BOKU

Guest lecture by Professor Graeme Hammer, Director of the Centre for Plant Science (CPS), University of Queensland, Australia, on April 10, at 10:00 a.m. in Vortragssaal of IFA, Tulln.

Science2business Award

Dr. Marija Zunabovic and Dr. Konrad J. Domig (Dept. of Food Science and Technology) honored with the science2business Award 2013.

Students' union election

Information day:
On March 21st, the students' union informs about the elections in May.

Guest lecture

Sustainable development: are we measuring the right things? Monday, March 25th @ 18:00

BOKU Wine 2013 Winners

Most wanted & found: The best white, red and sparkling wine of the BOKU winemakers.

Metabolomics at BOKU VIBT

Sandoz Kundl and the Department of Chemistry launch a new project aiming at the quantification of metabolites and metabolic flux analysis in cellular systems.

World Wood Day

The World Wood Day will be celebrated on March 21st 2013 by holding a symposium.

FlussAu:WOW!

A Sparkling Science project that integrates high school students into the assessment and evaluation of riverine landscapes.

International Soil Workshop

Sustainable land use, soil protection and rural development in the Danube region, April 17th - 18th, UFT Tulln.

BOKU on air at Ö1 Kinderuni

The BOKU Experimental Farm Groß-Enzersdorf enables children to engage with science and humanities and the people behind those.

Knotted proteins

as nano machines: The Institute for Biologically inspired materials (BIMat) is developing models in a joint-venture with the University of Vienna.

Marie Curie CIG Grants

D.Godbold and R.Seidl from the Department of Forest- and Soil Sciences have each been awarded a Marie Curie Career Integration Grant.

Call for Abstracts

CASEE Conference: “Food and Biomass Production - Basis for a Sustainable Rural Development”, July 1-3, 2013, Zagreb.

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