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About 200 guests attended the inauguration and launch event of the Environment and Climate Research Hub (ECH) on 8 March in the Great Hall of the University of Vienna.

On International Women’s Day, March 8th, 2024, the ECH awarded its first Environment and Climate Award in two categories. Taking place during the celebration of the Hub’s kick-off event, two outstanding young scientists from the University of Vienna, Tatiana Konrad and Lucia Fuchslueger, were honored with the “ECH Research Award”. Katharina Rogenhofer, alumna of the University and committed…

At the beginning of this calendar year, the Austrian recycling guidelines for the yellow bin were revised. During the coronavirus pandemic, images of large quantities of medical and laboratory waste spread on the Internet, and everyone is concerned about how we handle waste materials to solve environmental issues. The question of how we handle waste is ubiquitous, which provided the basis for…

Numerous public and academic debates focus on healthy and sustainable diets. Our eating habits affect not only human health but also the planet through agriculture. The ninth edition of Environmental Dialogue addressed this complex topic, reflecting the University of Vienna’s semester question: Agriculture and planetary health – Opportunities for a healthy and sustainable diet. The event…

In times of acute crises such as the Ukraine war, inflation, or the energy crisis, the question arises whether the climate crisis still receives adequate attention. Is environmental policy capable of addressing the problems of the environment? Experts provided different perspectives on this topic during the Environmental Dialogue event on October 18, 2022.