Kick-off event for the lecture series ‘Environment, Climate, Sustainability: From Knowledge to Action’

Program

What can we do at the local and regional level to combat climate change, biodiversity loss and environmental pollution? How do we move from describing and explaining the problems and designing solutions to implementing them? Who is this ‘we’ anyway – who must and can take action? What prevents solutions from being implemented and how can we prevent this in the future?

These and many other questions will be addressed in the transdisciplinary lecture series ‘Environment, Climate, Sustainability: From Knowledge to Action’, which will take place at the University of Vienna in the winter semester 2025/26.

The kick-off event at Vienna City Hall will focus on the questions: What have we actually achieved so far and what can we learn from this for the future?

When: October 13, 2025, doors open at 5:30 p.m., start: 6:00 p.m.
Where: Ballroom, Vienna City Hall – Lichtenfelsgasse 2, 1010 Vienna
Event language: German

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Schedule

Welcome

• Jürgen Czernohorszky – Executive City Councillor for Climate, Environment and Vienna's Public Baths, City of Vienna
• Sebastian Schütze – Rector of the University of Vienna

Keynote speech

• Ulrike Felt – Professor of Science and Technology Studies at the University of Vienna

Panel discussion with audience participation

• Thilo Hofmann – Co-Director of the Environment and Climate Research Hub at the University of Vienna
• Ulrike Felt – Professor of Science and Technology Studies at the University of Vienna
• Andreas Januskovecz – Head of Climate Affairs for the City of Vienna
• Katharina Rogenhofer – Director of KONTEXT – Institute for Climate Issues