health

  • Young Citizen Science PolliDiversity

    • HBLFA Raumberg-Gumpenstein
    • Verena Mayer
    • Raumberg 38 8952 Irdning-Donnersbachtal
    • 06769232306
    • Topic: Plants, Animals, Health, Living together
    • https://raumberg-gumpenstein.at/projekte/pollidiversity-young-citizen-science-fuer-biologische-vielfalt.html
    • Activity: measuring, photography, counting, identifying, observing
    • Location: Styria
    In the PolliDiversity project, students explore flowering areas and observe pollinating insects like wild bees. Using digital tools, they collect scientific data and learn how to protect and experience biodiversity.What are the aims of the project?In the PolliDiversity project, students investigate the development of flowering areas using the ReNatura® BW3 Gumpenstein wildflower mixture, observe wild bees and other pollinators, and collect scientific data using digital tools. The goal is to...

  • Healthy Minds

    • Medical University of Innsbruck
    • Jean Paul
    • Schöpfstraße 23a, 6020 Innsbruck
    • +43 676 8716 72 251
    • Topic: Health, Gender, Living together
    • https://healthy-minds.i-med.ac.at/
    • Activity: rating, discussing, observing, Offline participation
    • Location: Tyrol
    Mental Health around ChildbirthThis project focuses on the mental health of parents around childbirth, aiming to detect issues early and provide better support. The goal is to promote the emotional well-being of parents and infants and improve access to support services in Tyrol.What are the aims of the project?The Healthy Minds project aims to promote parents' mental health during pregnancy and early parenthood and close existing gaps in care. The focus is on improving the early detection...

  • TRA:WELL

    • Institut für Verkehrswesen, Universität für Bodenkultur Wien
    • Juliane Stark
    • Peter Jordan Str. 82, 1190 Wien
    • 0043-1-47654-85621
    • Topic: Health, Traffic
    • https://trawell.life/en/325-2/
    • Activity: Online game, measuring, rating, discussing, observing
    • Location: Austria, Burgenland, Carinthia, Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Salzburg, Tyrol, Vorarlberg, Vienna, Styria
    The TRA:WELL project focuses on the relationship between active mobility (walking, cycling, scooters) and the well-being of young people. The entire physical activity behaviour is considered in order to assess the contribution of active forms of mobility to the fulfilment of physical activity recommendations.What are the aims of the project?The project has three main objectives:TRA:WELL investigates the relationships between children's mobility behaviour and subjective well-being. The focus...

  • HealthFerm

    • Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health, ETH Zürich
    • Annina Meyer
    • Schmelzbergstrasse 9, 8092 Zürich
    • Topic: Food, Health
    • https://healthferm.eu/healthferm-community/citizen-science
    • Activity: measuring, experimenting
    • Location: Europe, Austria, Burgenland, Carinthia, Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Salzburg, Tyrol, Vorarlberg, Vienna, Styria
    The sourdough microbiomeAttention sourdough bakers and fermentation enthusiasts - HealthFerm is researching plant-based and fermented foods you eat and raise in your home!Fermented foods are present both in our daily diet and in various food cultures: from sourdough bread to beer, wine, pickles, sauerkraut, miso, kombucha, and much more. The art of fermentation is (again) on the rise, and many people are making their own fermented foods at home. Can fermentation help us transition to a more...

  • City Layers

    • TU Wien
    • Lovro Koncar-Gamulin
    • Paniglgasse 16 1040 Wien
    • +43 1 58801 - 264 34
    • Topic: Health, Politics, Culture
    • https://citylayers.visualculture.tuwien.ac.at/
    • Activity: Online game, photography, writing, observing
    • Location: Austria, Burgenland, Carinthia, Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Salzburg, Tyrol, Vorarlberg, Vienna, Styria
    Citizen Mapping as a Practice of City-MakingThe project “City Layers: Citizen Mapping as a Practice of City-Making”, funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) introduces a contemporary framework for city-mapping which centres on citizen experience of urban space as an integrative way to contribute to more egalitarian city design. Within the frame of the Citizen Science Award 2023, the City Layers app has been developed in collaboration with students, citizens and researchers all interested in...

  • Humane PapilloWAS?

    • Fachhochschule Salzburg
    • Magdalena Meikl
    • Urstein Sued 1, 5412 Puch / Salzburg
    • +43 50 2211 1411
    • Topic: Health, Media
    • https://hpvwissen.fh-salzburg.ac.at/
    • Activity: measuring, rating, discussing, writing
    • Location: Upper Austria, Salzburg
    In order to find out how information about HPV needs to be prepared to reach the target groups, we are working together with parents, teachers and students in the project “Humane PapilloWAS?” to reveal what is known about HPV and which misinformation is circulating.BackgroundOnly 46% of the population in Austrian are aware about human papilloma viruses, or HPV, and only 34% associate HPV with cancer. This shows that there are gaps in the population's knowledge of a virus that almost...

  • My Tune

    • mdw - Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien
    • Julia Fent & Irene Stepniczka
    • Topic: Health
    • https://www.mdw.ac.at/my-tune/
    • Activity: rating, discussing, taking care, experimenting
    • Location: Burgenland, Lower Austria, Vienna
    Music therapy from our perspectives“My Tune“ was a participatory research project in the field of music therapy (MT), which was carried out at the WZMF* and funded by the Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft GmbH in the frame of the “Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement in Research 2021” call.From March 2022 to April 2023, the “My Tune” research team developed a MT assistive reflection tool for young adult service users, namely the “My Tune” tool. The team consisted of:WZMF researchers...

  • The Psychological is Participatory

    • Faculty of Psychology, Sigmund Freud University Vienna
    • Nora Ruck
    • Freudplatz 1, 1020 Wien
    • Topic: Health, History, Politics, Culture
    • https://psychologie.sfu.ac.at/en/research/the-psychological-is-participatory/
    • Activity: photography, rating, discussing, writing, observing
    • Location: Vienna
    Counselling centres for women* are important institutions that have been founded since the 1980s by the second women's movement. In the project, researchers are conducting research together with counsellors and clients of Viennese women's* counselling centres. We are interested in the life stories of women* who seek help at counselling centres. How can women lead a good life in this society today and what role can women's counselling play in this? In workshops, questions and methods are...

  • Hero

    • Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für digitale Gesundheit und Prävention
    • Isabel Höppchen, MSc.
    • Lindhofstraße 22, 5020 Salzburg
    • + 43 (0) 57255 82715
    • Topic: Health, Media
    • https://dhp.lbg.ac.at/hero-das-herz-reha-informationstool/?lang=en
    • Activity: identifying, rating, discussing, experimenting
    • Location: Austria, Burgenland, Carinthia, Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Salzburg, Tyrol, Vorarlberg, Vienna, Styria
    DESIGNING AN INFORMATION TOOL FOR CARDIAC REHABILITATIONBackgroundPrevious research has shown that after an acute cardiac event, such as a heart attack, patients can feel uninformed about the follow-up care and cardiac rehabilitation. Digital technologies have the potential to make health-related information available at any time and in a layman-friendly manner.The aim of the project was to develop a digital prototype that provides patients with information regarding cardiac rehabilitation...

  • PATIO - Patient Involvement in Oncology

    • MedUni Vienna, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Applied Diagnostics
    • Markus Mitterhauser
    • AKH Wien, c/o Sekretariat Nuklearmedizin, Währinger Gürtel 18-20, 1090 Wien
    • +43 1 4040055340
    • Topic: Health, Language
    • https://www.patiospots.com/
    • Activity: identifying, rating, discussing, writing, taking care, observing, translating
    • https://apps.apple.com/at/app/patiospots/id1619138183
    • https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spotteron.patiospots&hl=en_US&gl=US
    • Location: Austria, Burgenland, Carinthia, Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Salzburg, Tyrol, Vorarlberg, Vienna, Styria
    Be an expert on your disease and join our research!The PATIO initiative is working hard to strengthen the voices of prostate cancer patients and their caregivers heard in medical research.Why is it important to act now? Porstate cancer affects a considerable number of people in Austria. On the one hand, around 65,000 men have suffered from this particular type of cancer by the end of 2020 (Statistics Austria, 2022), and on the other hand, there are countless partners, children...

  • Ideenbox (Box of Ideas)

    • Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft, Open Innovation in Science Center
    • Šerifović Adis
    • Nußdorfer Straße 64 1090 Wien
    • Topic: Health
    • https://ww2.unipark.de/uc/Ideenbox/
    • Activity: discussing, writing
    • Location: Worldwide, Europe, Austria, Burgenland, Carinthia, Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Salzburg, Tyrol, Vorarlberg, Vienna, Styria
    The Ideenbox (box of ideas) collects the problems of citizens and patients around the topic of health (such as physical and mental health issues, social consequences, care, health prevention...), for which solutions are to be developed with citizens, researchers and other stakeholders. Which health problem do you want research to solve? Who should be involved in finding a solution? Send us the health problem that you would like research to address through this simple online questionnaire (in...

  • Avian malaria

    • Institute of Pathology, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
    • Herbert Weissenböck
    • Veterinärplatz 1 1210 Vienna
    • Topic: Animals, Health
    • https://www.vetmeduni.ac.at/de/pathologie/forschung/fwf-projekte/vogelmalaria/
    • Activity: counting, observing
    • Location: Austria, Burgenland, Carinthia, Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Salzburg, Tyrol, Vorarlberg, Vienna, Styria
    Reporting and collecting dead songbirdsYou find a dead songbird in your garden? Your cat brings home a dead bird? If you are in this situation, you can support a current research project of the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna. Avian malariaWithin the framework of the Citizen-Science project "Avian malaria", dead songbirds and woodpeckers from Vienna, Lower Austria, and Burgenland are collected by the Institute of Pathology at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna. The birds...

  • Pollen Diary

    • Verein Österreichischer Polleninformationsdienst
    • Dr. med. Berger Markus
    • Tuchlauben 7a, 1010 Wien
    • Topic: Plants, Weather, Health
    • https://www.pollentagebuch.at/Phd/de/start
    • Activity: measuring, locating, rating, observing
    • https://itunes.apple.com/at/app/pollen/id515301928?l=de
    • https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=screencode.pollenwarndienst
    • Location: Europe, Austria, Burgenland, Carinthia, Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Salzburg, Tyrol, Vorarlberg, Vienna, Styria
    The Pollen Diary was launched back in 2009 as a scientific project as part of a master's thesis at the WU Vienna Executive Academy. Meanwhile it has become an important service for pollen allergy sufferers in 13 European countries: Austria, Germany, Switzerland, France, Great Britain, Sweden, Finland, Croatia, Hungary, Lithuania, Serbia, Slovenia and Turkey. The number of users is growing every year, not at least because of the projects that were made possible by the Pollen Diary, such as the...

  • "Pilzfinder"

    • "Österreichische Mykologische Gesellschaft" - Faculty of Botany - University of Vienna
    • Irmgard Krisai-Greilhuber
    • Rennweg 14, A-1030 Wien
    • Topic: Food, Weather, Health, Mushrooms
    • https://www.univie.ac.at/oemykges/pilzfinder-at/
    • Activity: photography, counting, identifying, locating
    • Location: Austria, Burgenland, Carinthia, Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Salzburg, Tyrol, Vorarlberg, Vienna, Styria
    "Pilzfinder" - what it's all aboutUntil a few decades ago, knowledge of wild edible and poisonous mushrooms was widespread. Especially the older population knew about the seasonal occurrence of the mushrooms. Finding mushrooms is a popular hobby for young and old, which is accompanied by great experience. In order to preserve and extend this knowledge and above all to bring it closer to the younger generation, the Mushroom Finder is now available. Due to the global warming of the last few...

  • Homegrown

    • Institut für Ökologischen Landbau Universität für Bodenkultur Wien
    • Christian R. Vogl
    • Institut für Ökologischen Landbau, Universität für Bodenkultur Wien Gregor Mendel Straße 33 1180 Wien
    • +43 (0)1 47654 93312
    • https://boku.ac.at/nas/ifoel/arbeitsgruppen/ag-wissenssysteme-und-innovationen-agwi/projekte/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...

  • Ragweed Finder

    • Verein Österreichischer Polleninformationsdienst
    • Dr. med. Berger Markus
    • Tuchlauben 7a, 1010 Wien
    • +43 699 14247779
    • Topic: Plants, Health
    • https://www.ragweedfinder.at/
    • Activity: photography, counting, identifying, locating, observing
    • https://apps.apple.com/at/app/ragweed-finder/id1473400576
    • https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=at.screencode.ragweedfinder&hl=de_AT&gl=US
    • Location: Austria, Burgenland, Carinthia, Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Salzburg, Tyrol, Vorarlberg, Vienna, Styria
    The Ragweed Finder was developed in 2017 by the Austrian Pollen Information Service at MedUni Vienna and has also been available to download as an app for Android and iOS since 2019.The Ragweed Finder consists of four components:Specimen reportRagweed distribution mapInformation about RagweedManual to recognize ragweedSpecimen reportThe most important data such as location, population size and symptoms can be entered quickly using the specimen report. Uploading a photo is mandatory...

  • Tell us!

    • Benjamin Missbach
    • +43 (0) 1 513 27 50-21
    • Topic: Health
    • https://tell-us.online/
    • Activity: writing, observing
    • Location: Worldwide, Europe, Austria, Burgenland, Carinthia, Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Salzburg, Tyrol, Vorarlberg, Vienna, Styria
    This project has already been completed. You can download the final report at the bottom of this page.In “Tell us!”, we are looking for research questions on accidental injuries.Medical advances need innovative ideas: your knowledge is valuable! Who knows best how occupational, traffic-related or sports injuries should be investigated and treated? With “Tell us!”, the Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft has started to bring questions of accidental injuries into research.Almost everyone...

  • Nan-O-Style

    • Martin Himly
    • +43 662 8044 5884
    • Topic: Health, Economy
    • https://www.uni-salzburg.at/index.php?id=210662
    • Activity: measuring, discussing, experimenting
    • Location: Salzburg
    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...

  • ACCESS

    ACCESS
    • St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Centre for Digital Health and Social Innovation
    • Brian Horsak
    • Campus-Platz 1 3100 St. Pölten, Österreich
    • +43 676 847 228 587
    • Topic: Health
    • https://research.fhstp.ac.at/projekte/access
    • Activity: measuring, rating, discussing, taking care, Offline participation
    • Location: Austria, Burgenland, Carinthia, Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Salzburg, Tyrol, Vorarlberg, Vienna, a local area, Styria
    Smart Movement Analysis for Knee Osteoarthritis ACCESS investigates how knee osteoarthritis affects movement — directly in physiotherapy practices using modern 3D movement-analysis technology. Patients and physiotherapists collaborate with researchers to gain new insights for better treatment.

  • Urban Heat Stories

    Urban Heat Stories
    • TU Wien future.lab Research Center, TU Wien Library
    • Helena Bernhardt (TU Wien future.lab Research Center), Sebastian Harnacker (TU Wien Bibliothek)
    • Resselgasse 5/15, 1040 Wien
    • 01 58801 44032
    • Topic: Weather, Health, Land use, Water, Living together
    • https://futurelab.tuwien.ac.at/research-center/soziale-infrastruktur/urban-heat-stories
    • Activity: measuring, identifying, discussing, writing, experimenting
    • Location: Vienna
    What are Urban Heat Stories?It will get hotter and hotter in the city over the next few years. The impact of heat can vary greatly from neighborhood to neighborhood. It depends not only on the building density or the degree of sealing in the city, but also on the age and state of health of the people and their immediate living environment.The Urban Heat Stories research project therefore collects individual heat experiences of vulnerable groups in Vienna. The aim is to make the diverse...

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