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Groundbreaking developments that are going to change our everyday lives will be presented at the Vienna Science Festival in the Prater on 18 and 19 September more...

Science as a central area of Viennese urban policy

The promotion of science and research is a central area of  Vienna city policies and administration. In the past twenty years the theme of science has been increasingly foregrounded by the City of Vienna more...

Dialogue between sciences

For around two years now the Interdisciplinary Dialogue Forum (ID) of the University of Vienna has been organising talks, workshops and symposiums to promote better understanding between scientific disciplines more...

Jane Goodall’s fight for a better world

The world renowned British researcher and UN Peace Ambassador Jane Goodall, now 76 years old, began her research studies on chimpanzees fifty years ago in the Gombe National Park in Tanzania. She recently came to Vienna … more...

ZIT Content Award Vienna 2010 – call for proposals ending on July 30th

ZIT – the technology agency of the City of Vienna – will grant the Content Award Vienna also this year. The call  for proposals starts on May 3rd more...

Vienna continues research investment

The research results produced by the Vienna Biocenter in the St. Marx complex in the 3rd district of Vienna (“Neu Marx”) in the past few years have made the campus into an important business factor in Vienna more...

Centrope-tt: four-country platform for cross-border research

The four central European partners – Austria, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary – are seeking to provide mutual support in the Centrope region more...

VITE: Vienna's role as a high-tech centre and hub

Vienna IT Enterprises (VITE) services about two thousand high-tech enterprises in the Vienna region, helping to ensure that Vienna can consolidate and improve its position as a high-tech centre and hub more...

New research priority for 2010

A total of 1.3 million euros will be available for interdisciplinary research on questions relating to ethnic origins, migration, intercultural mobility, integration and coexistence in 2010 under a programme developed more...

Green IT – green light for more efficient IT concepts

With immediate effect, a “Green IT" module has been added to the Vienna EcoBusiness Plan initiated in the year 1998 by Vienna's Municipal Department of Environmental Protection (MA 22) more...