University of Vienna

  • Vienna Kestrel

    • Project lead: Petra Sumasgutner
    • Konrad Lorenz Research Centre University of Vienna
    • Address: Fischerau 11 4645 Grünau/Almtal
    • Telephone: +43 660 2326888
    • Topic: Animals
    • Activity: photography, identifying, locating, observing, Offline participation
    • Participation: Open participation
    • Project link: https://www.facebook.com/TurmfalkenprojektWien/
    The kestrel is the most common raptor in the city of Vienna. Since 2010, the "Vienna Kestrel Project" has been investigating how these falcons have adapted to city life. A key component of our research is knowledge about nest locations which allow us to access broods for further investigation. The Vienna Kestrel Project was initiated by Dr. Petra Sumasgutner and Priv.-Doz. Dr. Anita Gamauf as a cooperation between the University of Vienna and the Natural History Museum (Bird Collection)...

  • UrbanBEE

    UrbanBEE
    • Logo URBANBee
    • Project lead: Petra Sumasgutner
    • University Vienna & AGES
    • Address: UBB, Djerassiplatz 1, 1030 Wien
    • Topic: Animals, Living together
    • Activity: photography, counting, identifying, taking care, observing
    • Participation: Open participation
    • Project link: https://www.myurbanbee.com/vienna
    Connecting People, Biodiversity and Cities UrbanBEE is an international study of wild bees in cities. Two hundred volunteers in Vienna will host bee hotels and send weekly photos of the occupation, helping the project unravel the dynamics of wild bees in urban ecosystems. What are the aims of the project? UrbanBEE is an international research project that aims to find out more about wild bees and...

  • Crows in the Zoo (KraMobil)

    • Project lead: Barbara Klump
    • Department for Behavioral and Cognitive Biology Konrad Lorenz Research Center University of Vienna
    • Address: Core facility KLF for Behavioral and Cognitive Biology Universität Wien Fischerau 13 4645 Grünau im Almtal
    • Topic: Animals
    • Activity: photography, counting, identifying, locating, observing
    • Participation: Open participation
    • Project link: https://www.birdscience.net/projects/kraehen-im-zoo
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    "Crows in the zoo" is a Citizen Science project of the Department for Behavioral and Cognitive Biology of the University of Vienna in cooperation with the Konrad Lorenz Research Center and the Zoo Vienna. The researchers aim to find out more about the species and subspecies of crows that use the zoo area. All visitors of the Zoo Vienna are welcome to join in and contribute collecting behavioural data by using an app developed for smartphones.As typical cultural followers...

  • Monitoring greylag geese in the Almtal

    • Project lead: Didone Frigerio
    • Core Facility KLF for Behavior and Cognition - University of Vienna
    • Address: Fischerau 13, 4645 Grünau im Almtal
    • Telephone: 07616 8510
    • Topic: Animals
    • Activity: counting, locating, observing
    • Participation: Open participation
    • Project link: https://klf.univie.ac.at/de/forschung/laufende-projekte/grass/
    Interested groups (mainly school classes) can participate in this scientific project about the whereabouts of the greylag geese in the Cumberland game park in Grünau im Almtal (Upper Austria).The social behaviour of the flock of greylag geese of the Konrad Lorenz Research Center (a core facility of the University of Vienna) has been monitored for more than 40 years. The birds are individually marked by coloured leg-rings and can move completely free.What is it all about?During the...

  • Forschen im Almtal (Research in the Almtal)

    Visitors of the Cumberland game park in Grünau im Amtal (Upper Austria) were invited to use an app to enter sightings and behavioural observations of greylag geese, common ravens and northern bald ibises and thus support research projects and the long-term monitoring of the Konrad Lorenz Research Center (KLF).Since its foundation in 1973, the KLF (nowadays a core facility of the University of Vienna) has been dedicated to research on the social systems of free-flying birds. Especially three...

  • German in Austria (IamDiÖ)

    • Project lead: Gerhard Budin
    • Centre for Translation Studies at the University of Vienna
    • Address: Prozellangasse 4, 1090 Wien
    • Topic: Language
    • Activity: photography, counting, locating, discussing, writing
    • Participation: Open participation
    • Project link: https://dioe.at/
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    Project descriptionWhen it comes to language, everyone can have a say!"IamDiÖ – German in Austria" invites you to explore the diversity, change and use of all possible forms of German in Austria, from dialect and standard language to youth language and jargon.By including the knowledge, opinions, experiences and concerns of the citizens in the research process, socially relevant topics are addressed and discussed publicly. The aim of the Citizen Science project "IamDiÖ – German in...

  • NestCams

    • Project lead: Didone Frigerio
    • Core Facility KLF for Behavior and Cognition - University of Vienna
    • Address: Core Facility KLF for Behavior and Cognition - University of Vienna Fischerau 31 4645 Grünau im Almtal
    • Topic: Animals
    • Activity: Online game, counting, observing
    • Participation: Open participation
    • Project link: https://www.birdscience.net/participate/nestcams
    In this project, citizen scientists studied the breeding behaviour of greylag geese and northern bald ibises. The project was run by scientists of the Konrad Lorenz Research Center (Grünau im Almtal, Upper Austria).Since its foundation in 1973, the Konrad Lorenz Research Center (KLF, a core facility of the University of Vienna) has been engaged in research on avian social systems. Three bird species in particular are used as models: greylag goose, raven and northern bald ibis.What was it...

  • DeVOTE

    • Project lead: Carolina Plescia
    • Department of Government, University of Vienna
    • Address: Kolingasse 14-16, 6th Floor, 1090 Vienna
    • Topic: Politics
    • Activity: identifying, rating, writing
    • Participation: Closed participation
    • Project link: https://www.votemeanings.eu
    DeVOTE is a research project funded by the European Research Council (ERC) from January 2021 to December 2025, and led by Ass.-Prof. Carolina Plescia to develop and apply a new approach to study what ‘voting’ means for ordinary citizens. The project’s goals are:understand what ‘voting’ means for ordinary citizens;examine the variation of 'voting' meanings across individuals and across countries;study how elections create and modify these 'voting' meanings;investigate...

  • ABCs of Dialect

    • Project lead: Alexandra N. Lenz
    • Institute for German Studies, University of Vienna
    • Address: Universitätsring 1, 1010 Wien
    • Telephone: +43 1 51581 2234
    • Topic: History, Culture, Language
    • Activity: rating, writing, transcribing
    • Participation: Open participation
    • Project link: https://abc-mitmachen.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/
    Language is one of the most important means of human communication, an essential part of our culture and it can also fulfill an identity-forming function. At the same time, it is constantly changing with the society that uses it. There are words that were used a century ago, but that no one knows today. Simultaneously, there are other words are still in use but have changed their meaning.With the "ABCs of Dialect" you can rediscover old German dialect words and help us process the...

  • Researching Discrimination with Citizen Science

    Researching Discrimination with Citizen Science
    • Project lead: Clara Holzinger, Elisabeth Scheibelhofer, Anna-Katharina Draxl
    • Department of Sociology (Faculty of Social Sciences)
    • Address: Rooseveltplatz 2, 1090 Wien
    • Telephone: +43 1 4277 49246
    • Topic: Culture, Language, Gender, Living together
    • Activity: discussing, writing
    • Participation: Open participation
    • Project link: https://dge.univie.ac.at/
    Discrimination is often difficult to grasp, both in everyday life and in research. By involving citizen scientists, we aim to broaden knowledge about discrimination.What are the aims of the project?Racist discrimination and stigmatization are difficult to grasp both in everyday life and in research, as they are often hidden behind naturalizations or justified with different rationales and intersectional categories. By involving people with different horizons of knowledge and...