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.

CASEE conference abstracts

Call for abstracts for the 5th CASEE Conference (May 25 - 27, 2014,  Novi Sad) - prolonged submission deadline Jan 10, 2014.

Admission summer term

General enrolment:
January 8th to February 5th, 2014.
Late enrolment:
February 6th to April 30th.

Award of Excellence

Ms Dr. Verena Peer has been awarded the Award of Excellence 2013 by the Austrian Ministry of Science and Reseach.

StEOP Evaluation

First semester bachelor students of Forestry and Landscape Architecture and Planning are invited to evaluate their introductory period (StEOP) till January 13th.

Tough negotiations

BOKU students simulate a conference on embedding climate change in the Sustainable Development Goals.

Gustav Hempel building

The Institute of Silviculture inaugurated the new seminar building in the area of the silvicultural experimental garden.

Consumption

Themed month by ÖH BOKU: Concious CONSUMPTION - limiting excess.

Jay Arnone at the BOKU

Lecture of Prof. John (Jay) A. III Arnone (Desert Research Institute, Reno) on December 10th at 2 p.m. in the TÜWI building.

CASEE conference abstracts

Call for abstracts for the 5th CASEE Conference (May 25 - 27, 2014,  Novi Sad) - submission deadline Dec 10, 2013.

BOKU in UNESCO report

Sustainability in monasteries: Research results of UMIS project published in UNESCO “World Social Science Report”.

Sustainable Development

"dokNE" welcomed 28 international PhD students from 6 different universities to the 3rd Vienna Workshop on Sustainable Development.

Historical open spaces in a pub?

An international online course that deals with historic open spaces and tourism started at the Institute of Landscape Architecture.

Your opinion counts!

The BOKU internal discussion on the Ethics Charta begins.

Course evaluation

The questionnaire for evaluating the courses of winter term 2013 is available from November 25th to December 8th at BOKUonline.

ELLS Conference 2013

7 fellowships for the best oral and poster presentations at the ELLS Scientific Student Conference 2013 went to BOKU.

Focus:Future

The Focus: Future Forum on November 28th is a unique one day event where students will meet successful companies and organizations.

Student participation

Themed month of the students union (ÖH): Student participation in theory and practise.

CASEE conference abstracts

Call for abstracts for the 5th CASEE Conference (May 25 - 27, 2014,  Novi Sad) - submission deadline Dec 10, 2013.

Bio Alpe Adria excursion

Invitation to the evening event of the Bio Alpe Adria excursion 2013 on 6th of November 2013.

ÖGMBT prize 2013

ÖGMBT „Best Talk Award“ awarded to Markus Schosserer (VIBT-DBT).

Wladimir-Peter-Köppen-Prize

Dr. Franziska Strauss has been awarded the Wladimir-Peter-Köppen-Prize for her outstanding dissertation in climate research. 

CFCR online conference

Climate friendly climate research: online conference, 11. – 15. November 2013.

Excursion to Mexico 2013

Oct. 30th, 18 p.m.: Presentation of impressions and topics of the excursion to Mexico. Afterwards: Fiesta Mexicana in Tüwi.

ÖGMBT Doctoral Thesis Award

Dr. Michael Traxlmayr from the Department of Chemistry of BOKU was decorated with the Doctoral Thesis Award 2013 of ÖGMBT.

BOKU's Nazi past

The history of BOKU in the 20th century. Themed month by ÖH BOKU.

Club Biotech Kick-Off

Latest trends in biotechnology & alternative financing models in entrepreneurial start-ups, October 24th, 18:00, SR 12 Muthgasse 11.

Swimming upstream

An evening with T. Scarlett Epstein, who was forced to emigrate from Vienna in 1938 and became one of the first female anthropologists.

Talk by Robert L. Thompson

Feeding the world in 40 years – How we overcome our common food and nutrition challenge. Oct 10th, 6 p.m., BOKU Festsaal.

New division

The "Division of Chemistry of Renewables" (H774) is now an autonomous division within the Department of Chemistry.

Your idea. Your future.

BOKU Day of Ideas for Sustainable Entrepreneurship on Oct 9th.

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).

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