health

  • Young Citizen Science PolliDiversity

    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

    • Project lead: Jean Paul
    • Medical University of Innsbruck
    • Schöpfstraße 23a, 6020 Innsbruck
    • +43 676 8716 72 251
    • Topic: Health, Gender, Living together
    • Activity: rating, discussing, observing, Offline participation
    • Participation: Open participation
    • Project link: https://healthy-minds.i-med.ac.at/
    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...

  • HealthFerm

    • Project lead: Annina Meyer
    • Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health, ETH Zürich
    • Schmelzbergstrasse 9, 8092 Zürich
    • Topic: Food, Health
    • Activity: measuring, experimenting
    • Participation: Open participation
    • Project link: https://healthferm.eu/healthferm-community/citizen-science
    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...

  • My Tune

    • Project lead: Julia Fent & Irene Stepniczka
    • mdw - Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien
    • 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...

  • Hero

    • Project lead: Isabel Höppchen, MSc.
    • Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für digitale Gesundheit und Prävention
    • Lindhofstraße 22, 5020 Salzburg
    • + 43 (0) 57255 82715
    • 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...

  • Avian malaria

    • Project lead: Herbert Weissenböck
    • Institute of Pathology, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
    • Veterinärplatz 1 1210 Vienna
    • 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...

  • Pollen Diary

    • Project lead: Dr. med. Berger Markus
    • Verein Österreichischer Polleninformationsdienst
    • Tuchlauben 7a, 1010 Wien
    • 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...

  • "Pilzfinder"

    • Project lead: Irmgard Krisai-Greilhuber
    • "Österreichische Mykologische Gesellschaft" - Faculty of Botany - University of Vienna
    • Rennweg 14, A-1030 Wien
    • Topic: Food, Weather, Health, Mushrooms
    • Activity: photography, counting, identifying, locating
    • Participation: Open participation
    • Project link: https://www.univie.ac.at/oemykges/pilzfinder-at/
    "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

    “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

    • Project lead: Dr. med. Berger Markus
    • Verein Österreichischer Polleninformationsdienst
    • Tuchlauben 7a, 1010 Wien
    • +43 699 14247779
    • Topic: Plants, Health
    • Activity: photography, counting, identifying, locating, observing
    • Participation: Open participation
    • Project link: https://www.ragweedfinder.at/
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    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!

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

    • Project lead: Martin Himly
    • +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...

  • ACCESS

    ACCESS
    • Project lead: Brian Horsak
    • St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Centre for Digital Health and Social Innovation
    • Campus-Platz 1 3100 St. Pölten, Österreich
    • +43 676 847 228 587
    • 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.

  • Urban Heat Stories

    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
    • Resselgasse 5/15, 1040 Wien
    • 01 58801 44032
    • 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...

  • Bug us with your ticks!

    Bug us with your ticks!
    • Project lead: Anna-Margarita Schötta
    • AGES - Österreichische Agentur für Gesundheit und Ernährungssicherheit
    • Währinger Straße 25a, 1090 Wien
    • +43 (0)5 0555-37226
    • 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...

  • Mosquito Alert

    Mosquito Alert
    • Project lead: Karin Bakran-Lebl
    • AGES - Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety
    • Währingerstraße 25a, 1090 Wien
    • + 43 50 555-37234
    • Topic: Animals, Health
    • Activity: photography, identifying, locating, observing
    • Participation: Open participation
    • Project link: https://www.mosquitoalert.com/en/
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    Mosquito Alert is a citizen science project that allows tiger mosquitoes and other mosquitoes to be easily reported using a free app. Tiger mosquitoes are always smaller than a 1-cent coin, have a single white line on the back of the head and thoraxand white stripes on the body and legs. The submitted photos are examined by national and international experts and the finds are then displayed anonymously on a publicly accessible map.Tiger mosquitoes are non-native mosquitoes...

  • Update Social

    Update Social
    • Project lead: Patricia Stark / Moritz König
    • Linz Institute for Transformative Change (LIFT_C) der Johannes Kepler Universität Linz
    • 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...

  • Mall-Walking Austria

    Mall-Walking Austria
    • Project lead: Marlene Kritz
    • University for Continuing Education Krems
    • Krems Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Straße 30 3500 Krems an der Donau Österreich
    • +43 2732 893-5527
    • Topic: Health, Living together
    • Activity: measuring, photography, counting, identifying, rating, discussing, writing, observing, translating
    • 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...

  • KoKo-Health

    KoKo-Health
    • Project lead: Ursula Griebler
    • Department for Evidence-based Medicine and Evaluation
    • Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Straße 30, 3500 Krems an der Donau
    • +43 2732 893-2933
    • 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...

  • The Psychological is Participatory

    • Project lead: Nora Ruck
    • Faculty of Psychology, Sigmund Freud University Vienna
    • Freudplatz 1, 1020 Wien
    • Topic: Health, History, Politics, Culture
    • Activity: photography, rating, discussing, writing, observing
    • Participation: Open participation
    • Project link: https://psychologie.sfu.ac.at/en/research/the-psychological-is-participatory/
    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...

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