Sparkling Science

Projects

• AAS Endurance

  A robotic sailing boat to do research on marine mammals

• ABLE YOUTH

  SustainABLE energy YOUTHers – Active research for a more sustainable energy use

• Alien Invaders – Renaturation of River Banks and Neophytes. A neglected problem

  Alien plants and their role in reconstructions of river banks

• ALIENA

  A new aesthetisation of medieval literature in the experience space

• Alpine Salamander

  Distribution and development of the alpine and the fire salamander in Salzburg

• “Applications on the Move“

  Development of a mobile gaming application for young people. Location based games from students for students

• Catch me if you can

  Shoplifting by children and juveniles – determinants and prevention

• Cross Age Peer Tutoring in Physics

  By learning with junior peers, students investigate their perceptions of physics concepts and adapt their own cognitive structures

• The year of the Greylag geese

  Seasonal behavioural differences of male and female Greylag geese (Anser anser) from different social categories

• Searching for Footprints of Climate in Classrooms

  Highschool students, teachers, and scientists investigate climate conditions in classrooms looking for correlations between heat and students´ concentration abilities

• The Jewish Cemetery of Graz: Explore - Conserve - Remember

  A contribution to the social and cultural history of the Jewish community Graz during the 19^th and 20^th century

• DESA

  German-English dictionary of social work

• The “Heilandskirche” of Graz

  The “Heilandskirche” of Graz during National Socialism in consideration of its members persecuted as “Jews”

• The “Rottenburg” – A Historically Important Fortress from an Interdisciplinary Point of View

  The „Rottenburg“: historical importance, building material and building history – an interdisciplinary project between natural sciences, arts and building research with active participation of pupils

• DISBOTICS - Disassembly Robotics

  Distributed and intelligent disassembly of products with mobile robots

• Ecoproduct for Youth

  Development of a method for sustainability assessment of products for young people. Becoming aware of the consequences of our consumption activities and tracking product features

• “A Right to Human Rights Education!“

  Qualitative evaluation of human rights education in grammar schools (AHS)

• eLearning in sports and physics education

  Development and implementation of a blended learning concept for sports-oriented pupils based on learning objects

• Enerkids

  Students research energetic solutions

• Engineer Your Sound! (EYS)

  Participative technological design using the example of music; Participation of secondary-school students in the development of didactic concepts of an interdisciplinary technical training

• Ethics&Health

  Education beyond Normalising Appreciation

• Facing the Differences

  Contradictions and differences as a constitutive moment of pedagogical professionalism

• FEM_TRACE

  FEM_TRACE_VOC screening test

• fe|male

  Students design technology-supported learning scenarios

• FIT NOT FAT

  Developing and implementing a project designed to survey the health status and to promote health awareness of Viennese high school students based on an intervention study in co-operation with Hospital Hietzing

• Mrs. Munde’s Deadly Sins

  Cultural heritage – the “Archiving Classroom” pupils as researchers

• Women and Competition

  Experimental studies of discrimination of women in their career

• FUNSET Science (Future Network-Based Semantic Technologies)

  Concepts for the applications of semantic and software agent technologies in small- and
  medium-scale enterprises to form network organizations

• Games4School – Researcher develop games together with and for school children

  Following the principle of user-centered design, school children develop mini games with new interaction possibilities in cooperation with researcher and teachers

• GEOKOM-PEP

  Geovisualisation and communication in participatory decision processes

• GEOSOL

  Success factors for small heat grids with seasonal geothermal heat storage

• GeoWeb

  Geographic information systems based on OpenStreetMap and Google Maps-API

• Gepulster Laser

  Development and construction of a pulsed laser for marking and cutting of various materials

• GLO-PART

  Young participation in glo-cal politics. Adolescent perceptions of and interventions in europeanized and globalized politics

• GrassClim

  Interactive effects of changes in climate and management on the yield and carbon dioxide source/sink strength of grasslands

• "Green Chemistry" – Sustainable Strategies in Science

  Sustainable chemical processes considering organic, inorganic, and physical chemistry as well as biochemistry, chemical analysis and polymer sciences

• Handball

  The jump shot - A biomechanical analysis

• Production of Multi-Channel-Capillary Membranes

  Development and assembly of units for the production of multi-channel-capillary membranes for improved separation and cost reduction

• I AM HERE!

  Participative approaches to analyse the space behavior of adolescents in the city

• Chatting with Antiquity – Inscriptiones Antiquae

  Scientific and didactic treatment and editing of the largest collection of inscriptions from Rome in Austria

• Intelligent Mobile Motion Advisor

  Development of technological methods and their practical use for supporting the individual physical fitness of adolescents in school and leisure time sport

• Cross-Cultural Competence

  Promotion of cross-cultural competence in high schools providing vocational education in Austria

• Intercultural Tracking. Pupils do Research into Migration History/ies

  An investigation of historical perceptions of young people in culturally heterogeneous classes

• JiBB

  Jugend is(s)t berichtend in Bewegung – health reports done by pupils for pupils

• Youth Researches: Traffic & Security

  Survey and scientific analysis of traffic- and safety-related parameters by students

• JuMuW [You move]

  Youth research workshop multicultural Vienna. An interdisciplinary research project on intercultural learning and multicultural lifeworlds for teenagers and by teenagers in Vienna

• KiP – Kids Participation in Educational Research

  Inquiry learning in life science research projects

• KiP²

  Kids participation in research: students join scientists to conduct research on selected biological topics and science education

• Climate Change: the Impact on Bird Behaviour and Reproduction

  The impact of climatic parameters on behaviour and reproduction of native bird species

• LIFE ^eQuality?

  Teenagers’ research into quality of life – a comparative interregional study

• Like seen on the Screen

  The media and our environment

• Lifelong Learning – Students´ and Scientists´ Joint Perspectives

  Students and scientists working on lifelong learning (LLL): developing questionnaires, collecting data and formulating recommendations

• Mediagarden – BAKIP Meets Science

  Qualitative media research realized by future kindergarten teachers in their practise-kindergartens

• My heart and I – together healthy

  Evaluation of a cardiovascular health promotion pilot project of Fonds Gesundes Österreich in the settings “community” and “school” for school health promotion at ECOLE-HBLW Güssing

• meteoPICS

  Students develop the basis of an archive on extreme weather phenomena

• MeTeOr

  The influence of new media and technologies on the value orientation of adolescents

• Migration(s) in textbooks

  A critical analysis by students, teachers and researchers

• Vienna, 1020 – Students investigate the History and Presence of their School

  Students of the second district in Vienna investigate the history and presence of their school. A historic- and empiric-comparative analysis of two schools of the second district with different cultural and social background involving students and teachers as researchers

• My Featured Space 2025

  Pupils in the Alps-Adriatic area analyze and form their future living spaces in rural regions using scientific methods

• MY LIFE – MY STYLE – MY FUTURE

  Sustainable lifestyles and adolescent life realities

• Nanomaterials – Possibilities and Risks of a New Dimension

  Nanomaterials - their possibilities and risks focusing on research of and with young people including gender aspects

• OpenPOI

  A web-based portal to collect and reuse free points-of-interest data

• Opinioncorner
  your opinion counts (OC)

  Secondary school students develop an online panel for young people

• PDM-UP – Expansion and Sustainable Establishment of a within a predecessor Project developed and implemented Product Data Management Platform

  A product data management platform as an IT system to support education at HTLs as an interdisciplinary field for cross-school collaboration

• Peer Violence – Teenagers' Perception of Youth Violence

  Teenagers' perception toward youth violence and violence interventions and its dependency on gender and migration background

• Picture.it

  Young people develop and design gender sensitive pictures of people and technology. A participatory technology research project to compile a non-sexist image database

• QUASSUMM

  Quality assessment and enhancement of user-generated mobile multimedia content

• Racism in Discussion Forums about Migration and Education

  migration.macht.schule

• RECYCLING THE GREEN – How Chlorophyll Disappears

  In search of traces of the green plant pigment: An investigation of chlorophyll breakdown and its enigmatic degradation products during autumnal senescence of local higher plants

• Flatworms

  Comparative studies on the regenerative capacity of free-living flatworms in Tyrol

• „Where have all the Jews gone“

  For example: St. Pölten.
  Migration and present times, displacement and memory

• SCHNAU

  Pupils develop learning assignments for biology and chemistry regarding their personal learning style and gender aspects

• Moth Larvae Research Project: Black C

  Research on moth larvae hibernating in the spring meadows of the recreation area “Lainzer Tiergarten” and their contribution to biodiversity and population dynamics

• (Do) students develop school!?

  Students and student representatives as co-actors of school development and system reform

• Science Backstage – Explore How Physics Works and What Physicists Do

  High school students examine how physics research works at the Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna, what research methods are used as well as how scientific communities co-operate. The research groups involved in this course include quantum optics, nano materials and nuclear physics

• SCWTEX – Simultaneous Cutting and Welding of Textiles

  Development of a combined cutting-welding process of textiles by use of a laser

• Sensors4All

  Acquisition of micro-climatic data for the area of Villach, concerning sustainable correction of raw data via open-source software and standards

• SKY: Self-confidence and Competence for the Youth!

  Systematic study of e-interventions in the context of self-assurance-training

• Sparkling Fingers

  Participatory design of assistive technology in the educational context

• Sparkling Fingers 2.0

• Playful Learning

  Research on motivational aspects and knowledge transfer in digital educational games for children aged 10 to 14 years

• Top-Klima-Science

  Hydrologic balance and global change: future prospect for mountain areas in the face of changes in land use and climate

• trans.eco.compare

  Interactive learning game for an ecological and economical comparison of different modes of goods transport

• Transnational Perceptions of History

  “So, what does this have to do with me, anyway?” Transnational perceptions of the history of National Socialism and the Holocaust

• Tricks of the Trade. Social Research with Pupils

  Students and scientists research places of learning and knowledge

• TriPolar

  Microbial life in the atmosphere – an extreme habitat as analogue to exoplanets

• (Un)Doing Gender as an Integral Principle of Education: Language – Politics – Performance

  How gender relations and roles are constructed, designed and lived – an investigation of students and teachers in the context of German classes

• Our Environment has a History

  Students in search for the roots of our environmental problems

• Comprehensive Learning through Concept Cartoons

  Concept Cartoons as a surveying method to identify alternative pre-conceptions in students and as a guide to teaching a student-focussed chemistry class

• Diversity of Cultures – Unequal City

  A transdisciplinary research project on urban development, social cohesion, and transculturality

• Virtual Product Development

  Support of a practice-oriented education in engineering design at schools and universities using a PDM-system

• Birds as Biological Indicators

• Precipitation - Forests - Wine at the Weinviertel

  Variability of precipitation and the influence on forests and agricultural yield at the Weinviertel in past, present and future

• Forest-Check

  Forests in focus – geoinformation technologies for small-scale forest assessments and inventories

• Does Particulate Matter concern me?

  Characterisation of ambient and indoor particulate matter samples and determination of sources for “oxidative stress release”

• WASsERLEBEN

  The development of the natural spaces Mödlingbach (Lower Austria), Krotenbach (Lower Austria) and Schlandraunbach (South Tyrol) after their reconstruction

• WESPe

  Wetlands, Environment, Society and Pressures: effects of environmental changes on the ecological and social functions of riverine wetlands

• XINU-Control

  eXcellent Interface for Nonphatic Use

• YouTest – Young People and Genetic Testing

  Young people performing technological impact assessments: direct-to-consumer genetic testing as an example

• Youth@Risk

  Perception of risk of adolescents – risks from a perspective of adolescents, science and media