Researching for our wonderful planet Earth: the ZOE team at Planet Earth Day
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.
Sustainability Challenge – Action day in Stattegg
Action day in Stattegg! The project “Dorfzentrum nachhaltig mobil” within the “Climate and Energy Model Region Schöcklland” takes off! The students of the Sustainability Challenge are taking the…
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.
Yesterday an industrial site, today vacant and tomorrow…?
On the role of brownfield revitalization and the transfer of policies and practices – The students implemented a co-creative turnover with local actors from civil society, business and politics in Hirschbach/Gmünd. The webinar actively contributes to the Third Mission of the University of Vienna and is now available online!
Circle U. Climate Day at the University of Vienna, 5 June 2025
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.
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…
News from the Sustainability Challenge
Practice partners and universities: Together for the SDGs |
Service Learning – theory meets practice
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.
Invitation to the book presentation
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.
Book review: Colin McFarlane, Waste and the City
The Crisis of Sanitation and the Right to Citylife
Crafting environmental justice through co-learning
With a population over one million, Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, faces serious challenges around provision of services, housing and infrastructure, all exacerbated by climate change…
Pursuing aspirations for decent sanitation work:
How informal workers navigate the universe of rules that shape sanitation practices in urban Africa
Joint Inaugural Lecture
Kerstin Krellenberg’s inaugural lecture for the professorship at the Institute of Geography and Regional Research will take place on January 11, 2023 in the main hall of the University of Vienna. Find out more here…
Hitze, Überschwemmungen und Co. – Klimawandel findet Stadt und statt
The lecture by Kerstin Krellenberg at the University of Vienna on Youtube. (German)
ERN-Environmental Engagements:talks.
Kerstin Krellenberg talking about “Urban Sustainability Transformations” on Youtube.
Researching for our wonderful planet Earth: the ZOE team at Planet Earth Day
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.
Sustainability Challenge – Action day in Stattegg
Action day in Stattegg! The project “Dorfzentrum nachhaltig mobil” within the “Climate and Energy Model Region Schöcklland” takes off! The students of the Sustainability Challenge are taking the…
Yesterday an industrial site, today vacant and tomorrow…?
On the role of brownfield revitalization and the transfer of policies and practices – The students implemented a co-creative turnover with local actors from civil society, business and politics in Hirschbach/Gmünd. The webinar actively contributes to the Third Mission of the University of Vienna and is now available online!
Wo die Zuagrasten aus anderen Bundesländern in Wien leben
Yvonne Franz talked to derStandard about where domestic migrants settle in Vienna – check out the article here!
Reimagining Urban Education – Podcast
Yvonne Franz reflects together with Stefan de Corte on the 4Cities Master, which will come to an end in 2025.
The Urban Political Podcast: Sanitation and the right to citylife
Listen to the podcast about urban sanitation with Julia Wesely and other experts from different universities!
JETzt: Podcast
How to get more trees in the city – how to create an efficient green infrastructure in the city? Episode 25 of the JETzt podcast features Kerstin Krellenberg.
The city of the future – Ö1 Science Arena
At the invitation of Barbara Dalheimer, urban researcher Kerstin Krellenberg and architect Bernd Vlay discussed the city of the future.
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.
Yesterday an industrial site, today vacant and tomorrow…?
On the role of brownfield revitalization and the transfer of policies and practices – The students implemented a co-creative turnover with local actors from civil society, business and politics in Hirschbach/Gmünd. The webinar actively contributes to the Third Mission of the University of Vienna and is now available online!
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…
