In the latest episode of our podcast 'Wissen macht Leute', the last episode of 2024 was released yesterday. Sturm und Wissendrang: Citizen Science at Buch Wien reports from Austria's largest book fair, which for the first time featured a science lounge with lots of citizen science. Listen in!

We are very pleased to welcome the Vienna University of Economics and Business as a new partner in the Citizen Science Network Austria. Vienna University of Economics and Business is a public university in Vienna and one of the largest universities in Europe in the field of economics. The university is triple accredited (AACSB, EQUIS and AMBA) and is committed to its "third mission" - in addition to excellent research and teaching - which is to provide social impulses on a local and international level.

To find out what role citizen science will play in the future, visit the partners page. Take a look now!

Missed the last Citizen Science Seminar presentation on the AmphiBiom project? Then check out the corresponding blog post! You can find this and many other lecture recordings in the Österreich forscht blog. Have a look and get informed.

Pub forscht, our beloved citizen science pub quiz series, is back! On January 15, 2025, we will be quiz with you again in the heart of Vienna. Want to know more? Check out the blog post and register your team! Join us!

Bug us with your ticks! - this is now possible in the new AGES project on Österreich forscht. The project team invites people to send any ticks they find to AGES for an Austria-wide tick survey. This will make it possible to analyse which species occur when and where in Austria, and which pathogens are present in the tick. If you would like to find out more about this exciting project, come and join the project!

The new Village project supports children and young people with mentally ill parents by strengthening their formal and informal support systems. The aim is to evaluate the Village approach and integrate it sustainably into existing structures. You can find out exactly how this works and how you can participate in the research on the project preview page on Österreich forscht.

For the first time ever, there will also be plenty of citizen science at Buch Wien, Austria's biggest book fair, from 20-24 November. Österreich forscht and several projects can be explored and tried out in the Science Lounge. You can find all the details in the corresponding blog post. Drop by and join in the research!

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 perspective of those young adults, by involving them into the research project by a Citizen Science approach. If you want to know more about the project, check out the project website and join the project!

SoilRise is a new research project on earthworm biodiversity in Europe. Earthworms play a crucial role in soil fertility and are considered important ecosystem engineers. With the help of citizen scientists the project team would like to collect data on the distribution and diversity of earthworms in Europe. If you want to know more, check out the project description on Österreich forscht and join the project.

The new 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. If you want to know more, have a look at the project description on Österreich forscht and join this new project.