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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.

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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.

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Understand the Crisis – Be Part of the Solution

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We are living in times of unprecedented environmental change. Climate disruption, species extinction, and pollution are no longer distant threats – they are present realities. But with knowledge comes power to act.

This free course invites you to explore the environmental challenges shaping our world – and to discover your role in creating lasting solutions. Through engaging video lessons and expert insights across disciplines, you'll gain a hopeful perspective on our shared planetary future.

Thilo Hofmann at AGES Event on Microplastics

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At the event ‘Understanding Microplastics – What We Know Today and Why Panic Is Not the Solution’ organised by the Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES), the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) and the ECH of the University of Vienna on 27 March, ECH Co-Director Thilo Hofmann, together with other experts, will shed light on the current state of knowledge about microplastics in humans and the environment.

Thomas Böttcher Receives ERC Proof of Concept Grant for his Project PhageTRAP

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Thomas Böttcher has been awarded an ERC Proof of Concept Grant for his project PhageTRAP. Proof of Concept Grants are awarded by the European Research Council to build on existing ERC-funded basic research and support the transfer of scientific findings into practical applications. Thomas Böttcher, ECH member and Deputy Head at the Department for Biochemistry, becomes the 160th researcher at the University of Vienna receiving a Proof of Concept Grant.
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