health

Pollen Diary

Project lead: Dr. med. Berger Markus
Verein Österreichischer Polleninformationsdienst
Address: Tuchlauben 7a, 1010 Wien
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Topic: Plants, Weather, Health
Activity: measuring, locating, rating, observing
Participation: Open participation
Project link: https://www.pollentagebuch.at/Phd/de/start
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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...

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
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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...

KoKo-Health

Project lead: Ursula Griebler
Department for Evidence-based Medicine and Evaluation
Address: Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Straße 30, 3500 Krems an der Donau
Telephone: +43 2732 893-2933
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Topic: Health
Activity: photography, identifying, rating, discussing, writing, taking care, observing, transcribing, Offline participation
Participation: Open participation
Project link: https://www.bit.ly/koko-health

Giving a voice to children and adolescents: Co-research with children and adolescents in developing a model of health literacyBackgroundHealth literacy is crucial for promoting health and well-being It encompasses finding, understanding, evaluating, and applying health information and services to make informed decisions for maintaining or improving health and quality of life. This competency is important at every stage of life, including in childhood and adolescence. However, existing...

HealthCheckR

Project lead: Ursula Griebler
University for Continuing Education Krems
Address: Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Straße 30, 3500 Krems
Telephone: +43 2732 893-2914
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Topic: Health, Media
Activity: discussing, writing, experimenting
Participation: Open participation
Project link: https://www.healthcheckr.at

Identifying trustworthy health information on social mediaIn the HealthCheckR project, we are working with citizens to create a simple tool that helps people find trustworthy health information on social media. This will help stop false information and support better health decisions.What are the goals of the project?The goal of the project is to develop an easy-to-understand and tested tool together with citizens that helps identify whether health information on social media is...

Bug us with your ticks!

Project lead: Anna-Margarita Schötta
AGES - Österreichische Agentur für Gesundheit und Ernährungssicherheit
Address: Währinger Straße 25a, 1090 Wien
Telephone: +43 (0)5 0555-37226
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Topic: Animals, Health
Activity: locating, observing, Offline participation
Participation: Open participation
Project link: https://www.ages.at/mensch/krankheit/infos-zu-zecken-krankheiten#c28475

For our national tick monitoring programme, we invite you to provide us with ticks. Your samples will help us analyse which tick species appear when and where in Austria. Moreover, ticks will also be investigated for the presence of pathogens.What are the aims of the project?The goal of our national tick monitoring programme is to obtain data regarding tick species in Austria, their occurrence, and the pathogens they may carry. The objective is to sample ticks from a wide variety...

Phänologie - Naturkalender - Phenowatch

Project lead: Kerstin Haslehner
GeoSphere Austria
Address: Hohe Warte 38, 1190 Wien
Telephone: 01360262211
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Topic: Food, Plants, Animals, Weather, Health
Activity: photography, observing
Participation: Open participation
Project link: https://www.phenowatch.at
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Since 1851, we have been researching the changes in weather, climate and nature and what this means for us humans by observing plants and animals. These phenological observations help, for example, in climate research, agriculture and pollen forecasting in order to better deal with climate change.What are the aims of the project?Plants act as an integrating measuring instrument for a variety of environmental factors such as weather conditions in the past and current vegetation...

Young Citizen Science PolliDiversity

Project lead: Verena Mayer
HBLFA Raumberg-Gumpenstein
Address: Raumberg 38 8952 Irdning-Donnersbachtal
Telephone: 06769232306
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Topic: Plants, Animals, Health, Living together
Activity: measuring, photography, counting, identifying, observing
Participation: Closed participation
Project link: https://raumberg-gumpenstein.at/projekte/pollidiversity-young-citizen-science-fuer-biologische-vielfalt.html

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...

ACCESS

Project lead: Brian Horsak
St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Centre for Digital Health and Social Innovation
Address: Campus-Platz 1 3100 St. Pölten, Österreich
Telephone: +43 676 847 228 587
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Topic: Health
Activity: measuring, rating, discussing, taking care, Offline participation
Participation: Open participation
Project link: https://research.fhstp.ac.at/projekte/access

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.

Environmental distribution of bisphenol A

Project lead: Andreas Wagner
University of Innsbruck, Department of Microbiology
Address: Technikerstr. 25d, 6020 Innsbruck
Telephone: 051250751
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Topic: Health, Water, Waste, Soil
Activity: experimenting
Participation: Open participation
Project link: https://www.bpaindeinerumwelt.at/

The project “Environmental distribution of bisphenol A” investigates the possible spread of bisphenol A (BPA) in our environment. To this end, citizen scientists collect samples (soil, sludge, water, etc.) and send them to our laboratory, where the BPA concentration in the samples is determined.What are the aims of the project?Via a public sampling approach, any kind of sample that possibly contains BPA is sent to the lab and BPA concentrations are determined. The team of the...

Mall-Walking Austria

Project lead: Marlene Kritz
University for Continuing Education Krems
Address: Krems Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Straße 30 3500 Krems an der Donau Österreich
Telephone: +43 2732 893-5527
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Topic: Health, Living together
Activity: measuring, photography, counting, identifying, rating, discussing, writing, observing, translating
Participation: Open participation
Project link: https://www.mallwalking-austria.org

This citizen science project works with citizens to develop and test a safe, group-based walking program in shopping centres. The goal is to promote physical activity, social connection, and well-being in later life. What are the aims of the project? The aim of the project is to work together with older adults to develop and test a practical, safe, and motivating physical activity program in shopping centres. By walking together in...

Cowwel

Project lead: Susanne Waiblinger
University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Address: Veterinaerplatz 1, 1210 Wien
Telephone: 01250774905
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Topic: Food, Animals, Health, Culture
Activity: rating, discussing
Participation: Closed participation
Project link: https://cowlearning.boku.ac.at/cowwel/

A OneWelfare approach studying food vulnerability. The project "COwWEL" examines, together with citizen scientists from socio-economically disadvantaged groups, conditions that promote or hinder healthy and sustainable consumption behaviour in these groups, taking into account attitudes toward animals and their welfare. The goal is to develop strategies and information material to promote fairer and more sustainable food systems....

Homegrown

Project lead: Christian R. Vogl
Institut für Ökologischen Landbau Universität für Bodenkultur Wien
Address: Institut für Ökologischen Landbau, Universität für Bodenkultur Wien Gregor Mendel Straße 33 1180 Wien
Telephone: +43 (0)1 47654 93312
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Participation: Closed participation
Project link: 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...

Tell us!

Project lead: Benjamin Missbach
LBG Open Innovation in Science Center
Telephone: +43 (0) 1 513 27 50-21
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Topic: Health
Activity: writing, observing
Participation: Open participation
Project link: https://tell-us.online/

This project has already been completed.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 suffers from an injury, whether from sports, at work or in a traffic...

Nan-O-Style

Project lead: Martin Himly
Telephone: +43 662 8044 5884
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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...

Avian malaria

Project lead: Herbert Weissenböck
Institute of Pathology, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Address: Veterinärplatz 1 1210 Vienna
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Topic: Animals, Health
Activity: counting, observing
Participation: Open participation
Project link: https://www.vetmeduni.ac.at/de/pathologie/forschung/fwf-projekte/vogelmalaria/

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...

Hero

Project lead: Isabel Höppchen, MSc.
Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für digitale Gesundheit und Prävention
Address: Lindhofstraße 22, 5020 Salzburg
Telephone: + 43 (0) 57255 82715
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Topic: Health, Media
Activity: identifying, rating, discussing, experimenting
Participation: Open participation
Project link: https://dhp.lbg.ac.at/hero-das-herz-reha-informationstool/?lang=en

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...

City Layers

Project lead: Lovro Koncar-Gamulin
TU Wien
Address: Paniglgasse 16 1040 Wien
Telephone: +43 1 58801 - 264 34
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Topic: Health, Politics, Culture
Activity: Online game, photography, writing, observing
Participation: Open participation
Project link: https://citylayers.visualculture.tuwien.ac.at/

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...

Urban Heat Stories

Project lead: Helena Bernhardt (TU Wien future.lab Research Center), Sebastian Harnacker (TU Wien Bibliothek)
TU Wien future.lab Research Center, TU Wien Library
Address: Resselgasse 5/15, 1040 Wien
Telephone: 01 58801 44032
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Topic: Weather, Health, Land use, Water, Living together
Activity: measuring, identifying, discussing, writing, experimenting
Participation: Open participation
Project link: https://futurelab.tuwien.ac.at/research-center/soziale-infrastruktur/urban-heat-stories

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...

My Tune

Project lead: Julia Fent & Irene Stepniczka
mdw - Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien
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Topic: Health
Activity: rating, discussing, taking care, experimenting
Participation: Closed participation
Project link: https://www.mdw.ac.at/my-tune/

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...

TRA:WELL

Project lead: Juliane Stark
Institut für Verkehrswesen, Universität für Bodenkultur Wien
Address: Peter Jordan Str. 82, 1190 Wien
Telephone: 0043-1-47654-85621
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Topic: Health, Traffic
Activity: Online game, measuring, rating, discussing, observing
Participation: Closed participation
Project link: https://trawell.life/en/325-2/

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...