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Invitation to the webinar “Repurposing a former construction and furniture joinery in Melk”

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.

Sustainability Challenge – Pre-register now!

THE chance to use your skills outside of everyday university life and to develop professionally and personally!

THE ANTI-CITY GUIDE

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

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 “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…

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…?

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…

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

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.

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.

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…

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.

What works against the housing crisis?

ARTE Europa Weekly with Yvonne Franz

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.

Sustainability Challenge – Pre-register now!

THE chance to use your skills outside of everyday university life and to develop professionally and personally!

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…?

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…