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.

Cooperation Vietnam - BOKU

A new project of the BOKU Department of Food Science and Technology in cooperation with the Hanoi University of Agriculture.

CPG president Prohaska

Thomas Prohaska was elected president of the „Chemisch Physikalische Gesellschaft - CPG“ (chemical physical society) for the year 2013.

Call for Abstracts

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

Landscape Architecture for Homeless

A student’s design will be realised this year.

International Innovation

An FWF project of PBU lead by Prof. Margit Laimer and Assoc.Prof. Fatemeh Maghuly dealing with Jatropha curcas has been selected as significant Austrian project.

Cycling of Civilisations

A talk by guest professor Bruce James on January 17, 2013, at 4:00 p.m. in the BOKU Ceremonial Hall (Festsaal).

Who owns the genes?

FAO expert Dr. Shakeel Bhatti will explain how to use and safeguard plant genetic resources, followed by a panel discussion.

Admission 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.

Joint Degree Master

"International Joint Master Programme in Limnology & Wetland Management" offered by BOKU, UNESCO-IHE, and Egerton University.

Crazy about development

CDR 'fresh thoughts' event with Professor Andy Hall on Wednesday Dec. 12th at 8 p.m.

Guest professor Andy Hall

Leading scholar in innovation systems for FAO and the World Bank - at the BOKU from December 10th to December 14th.

Bhatti at BOKU

Dr. Shakeel Bhatti (Secretary of the Int. Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture) comes to BOKU in Dec. and Jan.

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