economy

  • Fire Database

    • Project lead: Harald Vacik
    • Institute of Silviculture, BOKU University
    • Address: Peter-Jordan-Str. 82, 1190 Wien
    • Telephone: +43-1-47654-91318
    • Topic: Plants, Weather, Disasters, Economy, Land use
    • Activity: photography, locating, observing
    • Participation: Open participation
    • Project link: https://fire.boku.ac.at/firedb/en/
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    Since 2008, the Institute of Silviculture at BOKU University, Vienna, has been analyzing the occurrence, distribution, causes and characteristics of forest fires in Austria as part of various research projects. The data series spans several decades and includes around 8000 fires, of which around 7000 are forest fires. The last 20 years are the best documented. The Institute of Silviculture has created the web GIS platform “Fire Database”, which is freely accessible and allows interested...

  • Update Social

    Update Social
    • Project lead: Patricia Stark / Moritz König
    • Linz Institute for Transformative Change (LIFT_C) der Johannes Kepler Universität Linz
    • Address: Altenberger Straße 69, 4040 Linz
    • Topic: Health, Disasters, Politics, Economy, Media, Language
    • Activity: identifying, discussing, writing, taking care, observing, translating, experimenting
    • Participation: Open participation
    • Project link: https://updatesocial.org
    With your ideas towards a innovative social sector for all Our society is facing numerous social challenges and the public administration, charities & social service providers, civil society and (social) enterprises are already working to solve them. In the face of increasingly complex challenges, there is a need for more collaboration and dialogue across sectors. Together we can achieve more! UpdateSocial is designed to provide the framework for collaboration!In all sectors of our...

  • DANUBE4all

    • Project lead: Helmut Habersack
    • BOKU University
    • Address: Am Brigittenauer Sporn 3
    • Telephone: +43 1 47654-81901, 81911
    • Topic: Plants, Animals, Economy, Land use, Geology, Traffic, Water, Waste, Living together
    • Activity: measuring, photography, counting, identifying, locating, rating, discussing, observing
    • Participation: Open participation
    • Project link: https://www.danube4allproject.eu/
    DANUBE4all is an EU project with the main task of developing a comprehensive action plan for the renaturation of river stretches in the Danube River Basin (DRB). To this end, a collaborative stakeholder process is being developed that actively incorporates the interests of citizens. The action plan is intended to contribute to the improvement of the ecological status, biodiversity and river connectivity of the Danube ecosystems and thus supports the EU mission OCEAN ‘Mission Healthy Oceans...

  • Homegrown

    “Homegrown - There is nothing like a homegarden”Project descriptionWith their variety of plant species and the experience of the gardeners, rural home gardens constitute an integral component of the cultivated landscape in the Lienz district, East Tyrol. Together with pupils of the BG/BRG Lienz school (and biology, math/physics and English teachers), scientists are investigating rural home gardens, including stocks of plant species and the use of plants. These results will be compared with...

  • Nan-O-Style

    • Project lead: Martin Himly
    • Telephone: +43 662 8044 5884
    • Topic: Health, Economy
    • Activity: measuring, discussing, experimenting
    • Participation: Open participation
    • Project link: https://www.uni-salzburg.at/index.php?id=210662
    Nan-O-Style is a research and education project by the University of Salzburg, Department of Biosciences.What is Nan-O-Style researching?Nan-O-Style researches the complex topic of nanotechnology. Together with Austrian schools, we want to discover new and previously unknown interactions between modern lifestyle products and nanomaterials. Are there undesirable interactions and do these change the properties of the product? Everyone encounters nanotechnology in day-to-day life. But how...

  • Werkstatt Neu Leopoldau

    • Project lead: Christian Peer
    • future.lab Research Center, TU Wien
    • Address: Karlsplatz 13, 1040 Wien
    • Telephone: +43 681 2013 6273
    • Topic: Politics, Economy, Land use, Culture, Traffic
    • Activity: identifying, rating, discussing, observing
    • Participation: Open participation
    • Project link: https://futurelab.tuwien.ac.at/research-center/soziale-infrastruktur/werkstatt-neu-leopoldau
    The research project Werkstatt Neu Leopoldau is focused on the settlement process as a workshop situation for social innovations in housing and urban development, with the aim of fostering sustainable development and creating good neighbourhoods.As an applied research project, "Werkstatt Neu Leopoldau" (Co-creation Neu Leopoldau) accompanies the settlement process of the IBA quarter in Vienna's 21st district. The phase of residents' and users' arrival in the neighbourhood is explored, which...

  • ServeToPe

    • Project lead: Katrin Karner and Martin Schönhart
    • Institute for Sustainable Economic Development, BOKU University
    • Address: Feistmantelstraße 4, 1180 Wien
    • Telephone: +43 1 47654-73125
    • Topic: Food, Plants, Animals, Economy, Land use, Water
    • Activity: photography, locating, observing
    • Participation: Open participation
    • Project link: https://servetope.boku.ac.at/
    Better governance of ecosystem services at local scales in the Wienerwald region A joint research project of the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU) and the University of Vienna.What is ServeToPe studying and what are its goals?Society uses a variety of services that natural ecosystems provide, such as clean water, an attractive landscape for recreational purposes, food, or renewable energy sources. Many of these so-called ecosystem services...

  • Recycling Heroes

    • Project lead: Munir Merdan
    • bee produced GmbH
    • Address: Julius-Tandler-Platz 7/11, 1090 Wien
    • Telephone: +43 1 34 60 708‬
    • Topic: Economy, Waste
    • Activity: measuring, identifying, rating
    • Participation: Open participation
    • Project link: https://www.recyclingheroes.at/
    The sale of electrical and electronic equipment is constantly increasing and accordingly e-waste has already become the fastest growing waste stream in the world. Our society needs to face this challenge without delay, so the Recycling Heroes project aims to raise awareness about e-waste, especially among students but also in society in general, by combining the principles of the circular economy with citizen science methods.ParticipationAs citizen scientists, the students develop...

  • Citizens' Attitudes Towards the Digital Euro

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    • Project lead: Klaus Kraemer
    • Department of Sociology, University of Graz
    • Address: Universitätsstraße 15/G4, 8010 Graz
    • Telephone: 0316 380 - 7094
    • Topic: Politics, Economy, Living together
    • Activity: discussing
    • Participation: Open participation
    • Project link: https://digitaler-euro.uni-graz.at/de/
    Cash is going digital: but what opportunities and challenges do people associate with the Digital Euro? This project explores public perspectives and creates a space for dialogue between researchers, experts and citizens. What are the aims of the project? The project investigates public knowledge, attitudes, expectations and concerns regarding the planned introduction of the Digital Euro. It examines how citizens perceive this new...