Inquiries
Then you can encounter our teaching and learning, for example, at the Postgraduate Programme Cooperative Urban and Regional Development and at the annual Children´s University (KinderUni Wien).
We publish job openings at https://urbanlab.univie.ac.at/jobs/. In principle, a PhD can also be completed with a self-funded scholarship. In this case, you can contact us with a specific research proposal .
News from teaching
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July 14, 2025Urban Research to Practice: Science for Policy Hackathon 2025/26
The Urban Sustainability Living Lab (USLL) in collaboration with UniVie Innovation Team and City of Vienna offer a course on Urban Research to Practice which includes lecture units, a 2-day hackathon and a final pitch event. The goal of this Urban Research to Practice format is to encourage Master students to further develop inter-and transdisciplinary skills and apply... -
June 23, 2025
Climate Change Adaptation and Democracy in Vienna
From June 3 to 6, the first part of the comparative excursion “Democracy and Climate Change Adaptation in Berlin and Vienna” of the Institute of Geography and Regional Research of the University of Vienna took place in collaboration with the Institute of Geography of the Humboldt University of Berlin (HU-B)... -
June 12, 2025
Tischlerei Melk – Transforming a brownfield site to an integrative neighborhood center
Melk is a small district capital on the Danube River in Lower Austria. The town is well known for its… joinery?! Yes – at least that’s one of several future visions the owners of a former joinery site have for the space. -
May 19, 2025
Sustainability Challenge – Pre-register now!
THE chance to use your skills outside of everyday university life and to develop professionally and personally! -
April 10, 2025
Althangrund educational campus – students develop urban lab approaches
Old WU (University of Economics)? UZA? Althangrund West? At the Spittelau? What will the site of the future Campus Althangrund even be called? A fundamental question that the students of the course "Urban Labs: Approaches, Methods, Skills" came across in numerous discussions with local stakeholders. -
April 10, 2025
Yesterday an industrial site, today vacant and tomorrow…?
The webinar presents the results of the project seminar on dealing with brownfield sites in Lower Austria. The former textile factory in Hirschbach/Waldviertel served 15 Master's students as a... -
March 27, 2025
Transdisciplinary methods in practice: Alsergrund urban living lab day
Not all citizens have the same opportunities to participate in urban development processes. As part of the course "Theoretical Foundations and Methods for Transdisciplinary Urban Research", Master's students... -
March 17, 2025
News from the Sustainability Challenge
Practice partners and universities: Together for the SDGs | Service Learning - theory meets practice -
March 12, 2025
Lecture series “Natural hazards, vulnerability and disasters: Interdisciplinary Perspectives”
The lecture series takes place as part of the extension curriculum for Bachelor students at the Institute of Geography and Regional Research at the University of Vienna. -
January 11, 2025
Reimagining Urban Education – Podcast
Yvonne Franz reflects together with Stefan de Corte on the 4Cities Master, which will come to an end in 2025 -
November 13, 2024
ARL Summer School 2024
Read about this year's ARL summer school which took place in Vienna. Together with the Institute for Geography, ViertelZwei was examined by urban researchers from around the world. -
October 31, 2024
Transdisciplinary Approaches to Sustainable Urban Development
After a 4Cities Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters Spring School with a focus on transdisciplinarity was held at University of Vienna in 2023, a cross-semester transdisciplinary programme was pursued for the 15th cohort in the summer semester 2024.
