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)…
Project Midterm Meeting – The ZOE team meets in Bratislava
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.
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.
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…
Overlooked people, places, and practices: shifting the gaze in Asian and South African cities
Overlooked cities, being overlooked, counter-overlooking: With these three terms, the special issue of the journal Urbanisation, edited by Isolde de Villiers and Julia Wesely, encourages a critical reflection on so-called “global” urban research from the perspective of the misrecognized, the poorly recognized and the unrecognized…
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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
