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Tackling climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution demands collaboration across and beyond disciplines. The ECH provides essential knowledge, space for collaboration, and support for our shared future.

Kickstarting Environmental Solutions

We are facing a triple crisis: climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution each pose separate yet interconnected challenges. An integrated and mechanistic understanding and approach to these different facets of the crisis is necessary to ensure a sustainable future for us all. The ECH brings together researchers to produce excellent scientific knowledge that can provide us with solutions for this multitude of challenges.

Our Focus Areas

Latest news and projects from our focus areas:

Clean Environment

Climate Resilience

Biodiversity and Ecosystems

Changing Society

Recent Talking Points

30.10.2024

Science of the Unexpected: The ECHs Annual Research Retreat

This year’s ECH Research Frontiers Workshop focused on[...]

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23.10.2024

What Can Environmental Psychology Contribute to Curbing Microplastic Pollution?

Science has provided more than enough evidence to develop a collective and global approach to tackle the spread of plastic pollution. [...]

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23.10.2024

Oceans of Data: Diplomacy in a Digital Aquarium – Will Marine Policy Become More Scientific?

European researchers are creating an online tool that maps the entire ocean. Will it lead to more science-based diplomatic negotiations or just perpetuate existing problems? [...]

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23.10.2024

Deep Sea Carbon and The Climate

The ocean stores many times more carbon than the atmosphere, yet many of the mechanisms behind its carbon cycles are not yet fully understood. [...]

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23.10.2024

Our Climate – a Cultural-Historical View

Literature cannot stop climate change, says ECH Member Eva Horn, a literary and cultural studies scholar at the University of Vienna. Yet, it can teach us much about how climate has always shaped human perception. [...]

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22.10.2024

Call for Membership Applications for Early Career Researchers

The ECH is currently accepting membership applications from Researchers at the Postdoctoral[...]

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17.10.2024

(DE) Nachbericht: 12. Umwelt im Gespräch – Schnee war gestern – Klimawandel in den Alpen

Der Klimawandel in den Alpen: Ein Thema, das die Menschen in Österreich[...]

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26.09.2024

Apply for the Science for Policy Hackathon

Are you interested in how to create effective solutions for pressing environmental[...]

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19.09.2024

20 Years of Microplastics Research: Time to Act

Science has provided more than enough evidence to develop a collective and[...]

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12.09.2024

ECH-Direktorin Sabine Pahl beim größten wissenschaftlichen Psychologie-Kongress im DACH-Raum

Am 16. September 2024 startet der 53. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft[...]

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Clean Environment

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Changing Society

Upcoming Events

  • Kick-Off: Science for Policy Hackathon

    19.11.2024

    Aula at the Campus of the University of Vienna

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  • Science for Policy Hackathon

    06.-07.02.2025

    Apostelgasse 23, 1030

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  • Pitch Day: Science for Policy Hackathon

    10.02.2025

    DOCK, Spittelauer Lände 10, 1090

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  • 13. Umwelt im Gespräch – Schadstoffe in Lebensmitteln: Kleine Dosis, welche Wirkung?

    06.05.2025

    Naturhistorisches Museum Wien

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