Environment and Climate Research Hub

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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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Kickstarting 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.

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Environment and Climate Research at University of Vienna

Latest Stories

Ulrike Felt receives the 2026 John Desmond Bernal Prize

24.09.2026 News

Ulrike Felt delivering the keynote at the Environmental Dialogue 10, speaking at a podium in front of a presentation screen.

ECH member Ulrike Felt will receive the 2026 John Desmond Bernal Prize. The prize recognises distinguished contributions to science and technology studies. The award acknowledges Felt’s long-standing research on the societal conditions, effects and governance of science and technology.

Valentina Ausserladscheider among two researchers at the University of Vienna receiving ERC Starting Grants

10.09.2026 News

Die Teilnehmer*innen der Diskussion vor einer Leinwand mit dem live Graphic Recording.

Economic sociologist and ECH member Valentina Ausserladscheider has received an ERC Starting Grant for STRANDED. The project examines why economic actors respond differently to similar climate-related losses, and how cultural identities, political power and institutional structures shape these responses. Demographer Ester Lazzari has also received an ERC Starting Grant for her project MINDREP.

Andreas Richter receives €10m Novo Nordisk Foundation grant for ActiveSOIL

02.09.2026 News

ECH member Andreas Richter (University of Vienna) will lead the six-year ActiveSOIL consortium funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation. The project integrates soil biology and microbial activity measurements into soil health assessment to link basic soil parameters with ecosystem processes and functions.

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Events

16th Environmental Dialogue: Why isn’t more happening? – In search of levers for transformation

01.12.2026 Environmental Dialogue

December 1st, 2026, 6pm - 8pm

Natural History Museum Vienna

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Our Focus Areas

MOOC Environmental Emergencies

A free interdisciplinary online course (MOOC) coordinated by the Environment and Climate Research Hub of the University of Vienna.

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