University for Continuing Education Krems

  • City Nature Challenges in Austria

    • Project lead: Tanja Lumetsberger
    • Universität für Weiterbildung Krems
    • Address: Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Str. 30, 3500 Krems
    • Telephone: 004327328932344
    • Topic: Plants, Animals, Mushrooms
    • Activity: photography, identifying, observing
    • Participation: Open participation
    • Project link: https://www.citynaturechallenge.at
    Every observation counts!The City Nature Challenge (short: CNC) is an annual nature competition between regions that takes place in spring (usually at the end of April, beginning of May) and is held simultaneously in various cities and regions worldwide. On four consecutive days, people around the world document the diversity of wild animal, plant and fungi species in their region using photos and sound recordings and share them on iNaturalist. Together with others the observations are then...

  • KoKo-Health

    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
    • 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

    HealthCheckR
    • Project lead: Ursula Griebler
    • University for Continuing Education Krems
    • Address: Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Straße 30, 3500 Krems
    • Telephone: +43 2732 893-2914
    • 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...

  • Young Citizen Scientists against Disinformation

    • Project lead: Bettina Pospisil
    • Universität für Weiterbildung Krems
    • Address: Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Straße 30, 3500 Krems
    • Telephone: 06648153585
    • Topic: Media, Living together
    • Activity: identifying, rating, discussing
    • Participation: Closed participation
    • Project link: https://www.donau-uni.ac.at/de/forschung/projekt/U7_PROJEKT_4294971157
    A couple of Instagram stories here a TikTok video there: The pervasiveness of our everyday lives with more and more media content consumed in a short period of time has completely changed the way we access and deal with information: Due to their everyday use of and the strong fusion of their lives with social media, it is young people who are most affected by this development. The project “Young Citizen Scientists against Disinformation” aims to explore the topic of disinformation from the...

  • Mall-Walking Austria

    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
    • 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...

  • United by Crisis?

    United by Crisis?
    • Project lead: Jakob Maurer
    • Universität für Weiterbildung Krems (Zentrum für Museale Sammlungswissenschaften)
    • Address: c/o Landessammlungen Niederösterreich, Schloss Asparn/Zaya, Schlossgasse 1, A-2151 Asparn/Zaya
    • Topic: History, Disasters, Land use, Culture
    • Activity: measuring, counting, identifying, locating, observing, Offline participation
    • Participation: Open participation
    • Project link: https://www.united-by-crisis.at/en/
    Participate in archaeological field surveys and/or in cleaning, documenting & interpreting archaeological finds.A transdisciplinary look at the early Neolithic communities in the Schletz settlement clusterThe project aims to explore the surroundings of the famous Neolithic settlement of Asparn/Schletz (Lower Austria). Numerous human remains suggest a violent attack on this site in the Late Linear Pottery Culture, approx. 7.000 years ago. Due to its size and earthworks...