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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!

Book review: Colin McFarlane, Waste and the City

The Crisis of Sanitation and the Right to Citylife

Circle U. Climate Day at the University of Vienna, June 5th 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.

News from the Sustainability Challenge

Practice partners and universities: Together for the SDGs |
Service Learning – theory meets practice

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

Urban Cultures of Care: Mapping (Un)Care in Urban Everyday Life

This paper elaborates on Joan Tronto’s feminist care ethics with a particular focus on her relational principle of caring-with. Drawing on her broad understanding of care, which includes both informal and formalised forms of care, we argue…

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.

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!

Circle U. Climate Day at the University of Vienna, June 5th 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.

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.

The Materials of the Future: Lecture and panel discussion at the University of Vienna

The lecture by Mark Miodownik and the subsequent panel discussion (with Kerstin Krellenberg, among others) on the semester question: What will our future be made of?
Available on YouTube!

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!

News from the Sustainability Challenge

Practice partners and universities: Together for the SDGs |
Service Learning – theory meets practice