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Circle U. Climate Day
- June 26, 2025
- Posted by: Benno Urschler
- Categories: Events, Workshops
No CommentsThe Circle U. Climate Day at the University of Vienna on June 5, 2025, was an open invitation to all participants to step into a good future. Organized by Circle U. Climate Chair Kerstin Krellenberg and her Urban Sustainability Living Lab (USLL), the event welcomed over 300 attendees in the University’s main and small ceremonial halls — making it the first Climate Day involving the Circle U. Alliance.
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Climate Change Adaptation and Democracy in Vienna
- June 23, 2025
- Posted by: Benno Urschler
- Categories: Teaching, Uncategorized
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)…
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Project Midterm Meeting – The ZOE team meets in Bratislava
- June 23, 2025
- Posted by: Benno Urschler
- Category: Uncategorized
From May 22 to 24, 2025, the ZOE project team from the University of Vienna met with researchers from all over Europe and Central America and from various scientific disciplines for a three-day intensive exchange to discuss the links between deforestation, the loss of biodiversity and the occurrence of zoonoses.
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Tischlerei Melk – Transforming a brownfield site to an integrative neighborhood center
- June 12, 2025
- Posted by: Benno Urschler
- Categories: Cooperation and Co-Creation, Teaching
Melk is a small district capital on the Danube River in Lower Austria. The town is well known for its… joinery?!
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Invitation to the webinar “Repurposing a former construction and furniture joinery in Melk”
- June 2, 2025
- Posted by: Benno Urschler
- Categories: Cooperation and Co-Creation, Media, Teaching
In cooperation with the Umweltbundesamt, the results of the project seminar will be presented by the students. The focus is on the revitalization of an old carpentry site in the center of Melk.
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Sustainability Challenge – Pre-register now!
- May 19, 2025
- Posted by: Benno Urschler
- Categories: Cooperation and Co-Creation, Teaching
THE chance to use your skills outside of everyday university life and to develop professionally and personally!
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THE ANTI-CITY GUIDE
- May 15, 2025
- Posted by: Benno Urschler
- Categories: (en) Urban Socio-spatial Transformations (b), Events
Lecture + discussion with Maurice Hermans (NL) Wednesday, May 28, 2025 | 10:30-11:30 | Conference Room C520, NIG Organized by the Urban Studies Working Group, University of Vienna
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Researching for our wonderful planet Earth: the ZOE team at Planet Earth Day
- May 5, 2025
- Posted by: Benno Urschler
- Categories: Events, Urban Ecosystem Services (b), Workshops
To mark International Earth Day, Planet Earth Day took place on Sunday 27.4.25 at the University of Vienna’s GeoCenter. The ZOE project team was represented with the stand “Wild & Important: How the health of animals, forests and humans are connected” at the Marketplace of Sciences.
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Sustainability Challenge – Action day in Stattegg
- April 17, 2025
- Posted by: Benno Urschler
- Categories: Cooperation and Co-Creation, Events, Workshops
Action day in Stattegg! The “Village center sustainable mobility” project as part of the “Schöcklland climate and energy model region” is picking up speed! The students of the Sustainability Challenge take the…
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Althangrund educational campus – students develop urban lab approaches
- April 10, 2025
- Posted by: Benno Urschler
- Categories: (en) Urban sustainability - transformations (b), Teaching
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.
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Yesterday an industrial site, today vacant and tomorrow…?
- April 10, 2025
- Posted by: Benno Urschler
- Categories: (en) Transdisciplinarity (b), Conferences, Cooperation and Co-Creation, Events, Teaching
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…
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Circle U. Climate Day at the University of Vienna, 5 June 2025
- March 27, 2025
- Posted by: Benno Urschler
- Categories: Conferences, Cooperation and Co-Creation, Events
The Circle U. Climate Day is an initiative of the Circle U. Knowledge Hub on Climate and will be held for the first time on June 5, 2025 and will take place simultaneously at all nine partner universities of the Circle U. Alliance at the same time.
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Transdisciplinary methods in practice: Alsergrund urban living lab day
- March 27, 2025
- Posted by: Benno Urschler
- Categories: (en) Transdisciplinarity (b), Cooperation and Co-Creation, Teaching, Workshops
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…
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News from the Sustainability Challenge
- March 17, 2025
- Posted by: Benno Urschler
- Categories: (en) Transdisciplinarity (b), (en) UN Sustainable development Goals (b), Teaching
Practice partners and universities: Together for the SDGs |
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Lecture series “Natural hazards, vulnerability and disasters: Interdisciplinary Perspectives”
- March 12, 2025
- Posted by: Benno Urschler
- Categories: Cooperation and Co-Creation, Events, Teaching
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.
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Invitation to the book presentation
- February 24, 2025
- Posted by: Benno Urschler
- Categories: (en) Transdisciplinarity (b), Events, New Publications, Publications
Kooperative Stadt- und Regionalentwicklung (Cooperative urban and regional development) will be presented on March 12. Please register to attend the discussion with the editors Yvonne Franz and Martin Heintel.
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Reimagining Urban Education – Podcast
- January 11, 2025
- Posted by: Benno Urschler
- Categories: Media, Teaching
Yvonne Franz reflects together with Stefan de Corte on the 4Cities Master, which will come to an end in 2025
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Call for Abstracts – Urban Studies at the EUGEO2025 Congress
- December 26, 2024
- Posted by: Benno Urschler
- Categories: Conferences, Events, Workshops
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Science for Policy Hackathon
- November 20, 2024
- Posted by: Benno Urschler
- Categories: Cooperation and Co-Creation, Events, Talks
The Science for Policy Hackathon, organized by the University of Vienna’s Environmental Change Hub (ECH) in cooperation with the Urban Sustainability Living Lab, is a collaborative process aimed at fostering innovative solutions at the intersection of science and policymaking.
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Circle U. from the perspective of an academic chair
- November 20, 2024
- Posted by: Benno Urschler
- Categories: Cooperation and Co-Creation, Events, Talks
As climate chair of the University of Vienna for the Circle U. alliance, Kerstin Krellenberg will talk about the university network from the perspective of an academic chair on Friday 21st of November.
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ARL Summer School 2024
- November 13, 2024
- Posted by: Benno Urschler
- Categories: (en) Urban sustainability - transformations (b), Cooperation and Co-Creation, Teaching
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.
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Brown Bag Lunch on November 27 – 1:00-2:30pm
- November 12, 2024
- Posted by: Benno Urschler
- Category: Talks
This time with Julia Wesely on ‘Overlooked cities. Shifting the gaze in global urban studies.’
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World Cities Day 2024
- October 31, 2024
- Posted by: Benno Urschler
- Category: Cooperation and Co-Creation
This year’s motto was “Youth climate changemakers: Catalyzing local action for urban sustainability”.
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Textile factory in Hirschbach: Industrial transformation in the Waldviertel?
- October 27, 2024
- Posted by: Benno Urschler
- Categories: (en) Transdisciplinarity (b), Cooperation and Co-Creation, Teaching
The former textile factory in Hirschbach/Waldviertel serves as a learning case for industrial transformation in Austria for 15 master’s students from the Department of Geography and Regional Research as part of their project seminar.
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Young Scientists on the stage of the 3rd Brachflächen Summit
- October 27, 2024
- Posted by: Benno Urschler
- Categories: (en) Transdisciplinarity (b), Cooperation and Co-Creation, Teaching
Master’s students of the Department of Geography and Regional Research present their research approach to the analysis of a textile wasteland in the Waldviertel. Their geographically and spatially sensitive approach is met with great approval during the 3rd Brownfield Summit in Salzburg on October 22, 2024.
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The Urban Political Podcast: Sanitation and the right to citylife
- August 27, 2024
- Posted by: Benno Urschler
- Category: Media
Listen to the podcast about urban sanitation with Julia Wesely and other experts from different universities!
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Second ECH Climate Walk: “Vienna – it’s getting hot in here!”
- August 19, 2024
- Posted by: Benno Urschler
- Category: Events
The second Vienna Climate Walk took place last week! Kerstin Krellenberg and Yvonne Franz were out and about in Vienna with interested participants.
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“My city, your city, our city”
- August 12, 2024
- Posted by: Benno Urschler
- Categories: (en) Transdisciplinarity (b), Cooperation and Co-Creation, Teaching, Workshops
How does your favourite place in the city look like? What do you particularly like about playgrounds? How would you like to improve playgrounds and what can you do if other children have different opinions and ideas to yours? And what does participation mean in this context?
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What the Food? Exploring Alternative Urban Food Systems
- August 9, 2024
- Posted by: Benno Urschler
- Category: Teaching
Practical Exercise in Urban Geography and Planning – Poster Fair (Summer term 2024)
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GReenSCape Project Launch
- July 24, 2024
- Posted by: Benno Urschler
- Category: (en) UN Sustainable development Goals (b)
Growing Resilience with Urban Agriculture for Sustainable Cities
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Transdisciplinarity in Teaching – Final 4Cities workshop – Indicators in Action: Supporting Sustainable Urban Development
- July 23, 2024
- Posted by: Benno Urschler
- Categories: Teaching, Workshops
A transdisciplinary workshop on June 27th 2024, hosted by the 43 4Cities Students, marked the end of an intensive summer term.
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The ReCity Project
- July 21, 2024
- Posted by: Benno Urschler
- Categories: Cooperation and Co-Creation, Uncategorized
An Armenian-Austrian Collaboration for Innovative and Sustainable Revitalization of Post-Soviet Industrial Cities
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Living in Vienna: Socio-spatial urban diversity experienced by 4CITIES students
- July 21, 2024
- Posted by: Benno Urschler
- Categories: (en) Urban Socio-spatial Transformations (b), Teaching
Students of the 4CITIES Erasmus Mundus Masters Programme in Urban Studies delivered Pecha-Kucha-style presentations to urban planning master students at TU Berlin. The challenge? Each presentation consisted…
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One month off from Urban Studies: Sailing in the Pacific Ocean from Japan to Palau
- July 7, 2024
- Posted by: Benno Urschler
- Category: Uncategorized
In March 2024, I sailed the Pacific Ocean from Yokohama, Japan to Palau. The journey was 1996 Nautical miles (=3696 km). I was selected to participate in the International Ocean Human Resource Development Project by the Ocean Policy Research Institute (OPRI)…
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Housing in Vienna: renovation, refurbishment, circular economy?
- June 27, 2024
- Posted by: Benno Urschler
- Category: Teaching
How is the Viennese housing market currently developing with regard to sustainable housing measures?
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Intercultural exchange for urban sustainability in Latin America and Europe
- June 12, 2024
- Posted by: Benno Urschler
- Categories: (en) UN Sustainable development Goals (b), Conferences
The German-Latin American Bachelor International Business and Management at FH Münster School of Business organised its annual Latin American conference from 16 May to 17 May 2024…
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Panel discussion: The SDGs in urban areas
- June 6, 2024
- Posted by: Benno Urschler
- Categories: (en) UN Sustainable development Goals (b), Events, Uncategorized, Workshops
Panel discussion: The SDGs in urban areas – local perspectives for accelerated implementation and the post-2030 sustainability agenda
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Advisory Board – City of Vienna
- June 5, 2024
- Posted by: Benno Urschler
- Category: Media
Kerstin Krellenberg was reappointed to the City of Vienna’s Advisory Board for Urban Planning, Urban Design and World Heritage as an expert in urban ecology and climate change adaptation for the 2024-2027 term of office.
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Umwelt im Gespräch – follow-up report
- May 28, 2024
- Posted by: Benno Urschler
- Categories: Events, Media
Video following the 11th “Umwelt im Gespräch” – Climate change and urban heat stress: How can cities face the future?, an event organized by the Research Network Environment and Climate
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Sustainable Mobility
- May 22, 2024
- Posted by: Benno Urschler
- Category: Uncategorized
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