Talks

On November 13, 2025, the first stakeholder workshop in Slovakia took place in Marianka, a small town near Bratislava. ZOE researchers from the Biomedical Research Center in Bratislava and the Slovak Academy of Sciences carried out the project. Three of our ZOE employees, Julia Wesely, Charlotte Tienes and Johannes Richter, were involved in both the preparations and the implementation on site.

Kerstin Krellenberg and Julia Wesely edited a Special Issue in the Urban Planning Journal together with Florian Koch and Sarah Beyer from the University of Applied Sciences HTW Berlin. The Issue titled Future Urban Sustainability brings together diverse contributions to reflect on conceptual, methodological and practical barriers and advances in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 and beyond.

The motto of this year's World Cities Day on October 31st is "People-Centred Smart Cities". The aim is to highlight the potential of how data-driven decision-making, technologies and artificial intelligence can help improve life in cities. The focus is on smart city initiatives that put people first and integrate inclusion and accessibility.

On October 15th, 30+ students from 11 Master´s programmes across the University of Vienna came together with the team from UniVie innovation, the Urban Sustainability Living Lab, and City of Vienna, to inaugurate this year´s Urban Research to Practice: Science for Policy Hackathon.