Based in Vienna, the CEU brings together students and faculty from more than 100 countries in a close-knit community that promotes dialogue and collaboration across borders, cultures and disciplines. Now the Central European University is also part of the Citizen Science Network Austria and we warmly welcome them. In the partner description on Österreich forscht you will find detailed information about the CEU and its connections to citizen science. Have a look!

Detective work for amphibian protection - for the first time, amphibian screening is being carried out throughout Austria by detecting their DNA traces in water - and everyone can take part. Find out how you can participate in the project description of the new project Frog in a drop of water!

Many archaeological artifacts today are only preserved in fragments. Reassembling these parts into their original form is therefore an important but challenging task for archaeology. Computer-assisted methods can facilitate this task or even partially solve it in some cases. However, due to the usually poor preservation of these artifacts and their potential incompleteness, reliable fully automatic reassembly is rarely possible in practice.

The goal of the Open Reassembly project, which is new on Österreich forscht, is to design the solution to such complex tasks as a collaborative process involving many participants and in optimal interplay with computer-assisted methods. Have a look and join the project!

Attention cat owners in Vorarlberg! Under the motto "Show me your mouse, cat!", the inatura Naturschau Dornbirn is collecting dead mice and other small mammals that your cat brings to your home. From June to November 2024, you can hand in these "gifts" from your cat to the inatura or other collection points in Vorarlberg.You can find more information about this exciting new project on Österreich forscht. Join in the research!

Do you already know the Österreich forscht blog? Almost 800 blog posts currently invite you to immerse yourself in citizen science. Project managers, citizen scientists and researchers on citizen science report on events, literature and, above all, directly from the projects. Take a look and be inspired!

As a follow-up project to Heavy Metal City-Zen, the new project City-Zen Boden is once again inviting Viennese community gardens, garden projects or similar garden initiatives to take part in this project and conduct research together. The aim of this project is to scientifically assess the potential risk of heavy metal contamination of crops in Viennese city gardens and to investigate the extent of soil contamination with microplastics. Have a look and join the project!

Next week, the next episode of our podcast "Wissen macht Leute" will go on air on Radio Orange. The programme will be about the recent ECSA/ÖCSK double conference in Vienna at the beginning of April, and we are already very excited! Listen in!

Long Night of Research 2024! We'll be there too! At the Österreich forscht booth at BOKU University, you can find out which projects are available for co-research and how citizen science works in general. Come and visit us! We look forward to seeing you!

Submit now for the German Citizen Science Forum in Hamburg! In the current blog post and in the open calls you will find the link directly to the submission! Be part of it!

Giving a voice to children and adolescents: Co-research with children and adolescents in developing a model of health literacy - this is the aim of the new project KoKo-Health from the University of Krems on Österreich forscht. Have a look and join the project!