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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The Slopes are Shifting: Tackling Landslides From Across Disciplines

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Created by Florian Schlederer

We are changing the climate - and with it, the risk for landslides. Extreme weather and land use are increasing their number and severity. Particularly in urban areas, landslides have become the cause of many avoidable deaths. Now, researchers ranging from geologists to psychologists have united to rethink the issue holistically. The resulting research group wants to reduce landslide fatalities in the long run - despite urbanization and climate change.

The ECH's 2026 Seed Funding Projects

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Created by Lena Schmidlechner

For the third year in a row, the Environment and Climate Research Hub (ECH) at the University of Vienna has awarded it's Seed Funding to four different innovative, interdisciplinary research projects by it's members. From Musicology to Toxicology, from Demography to Geoscience - these projects show the importance of our Hub's mission: working together across disciplines to foster a deeper understanding of our environment and climate.
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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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