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

• ACTO

  Evaluation of modular Actuated Tangible User Interfaces

• 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

• AlmWaal

  Irrigation of Meadows and Pastures in the Alpine Landscape - Importance of Ancient Culture Technique for Biodiversity and Mountain Pasture

• Alpine Salamander

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

• Alpine Salamanders II

  Alpine and Fire Salamanders in Austria and Europe; review of the current situation and protective measures

• ALRAUNE

  Allergy research in rural, alpine, and urban networks

• “Applications on the Move“

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

• An educational toolbox in conjunction with the ‚Steirische Literaturpfade des Mittelalters´

  New concepts and material to transfer older German texts

• Rethinking further education

  Learning through research in education and practice of Early Childhood Education and Care

• Catch me if you can

  Shoplifting by children and juveniles – determinants and prevention

• CAVE.LIFE

  Ice Caves as Glacial Refugium of Microorganisms and their Non-Invasive Investigation

• Chemical defense in the animal kingdom

  The use of skin glandular secretions for biochemical defenses against predators in common toads (Bufo bufo) - plasticity and costs in the light of climate change

• Cross Age Peer Tutoring in Physics

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

• Cross Age Peer Tutoring in Physics 2

  Gateway between school and university

• The End of (My) Childhood?

  Kindertransporte (Refugee Children Movement) for the Rescue of Jewish Children and Youths from Austria 1938-1941

• The secret life of the neighbourhoods

  Young researchers write urban history

• 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

• You Feel, I Listen, We Make Music – a Dialog

  Development of adequate pedagogical approaches for inclusive and integrative contexts with heterogeneous groups.

• 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)

• Human attitudes towards wolves and dogs

  Attitudes of different segments of people living in Eastern Austria towards wolves and dogs; a questionnaire and behavioural survey

• 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_PERS

  FEM_PERS: Personalized medicine for women by use of breath tests

• 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

• FlussAu:WOW!

  Identifying and understanding of processes in river landscapes based on innovative geodata

• FRANC - Field Robot for Advanced Navigation in bio Crops

  Development of a field robot with an advanced navigation system for organic farming

• 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

• Functional feed for cows – added-value rather than nutritional value

  Scientists and pupils work together to enhance functional properties of grains fed to dairy cows

• 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

• „GIVING VOICE – Inclusion through Political Parties?“

  An intersectional analysis of descriptive representation based on candidate lists for parliamentary elections in Austria

• 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

• Wood for Salt

  Wood for Salt – The prehistoric Hallstatt saltmines and their working processes

• Hybrid wood constructions

  Development of timer-steel-hybrid elements for economically and ecologically sustainable mixed timber structures for compact construction in urban areas

• 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

• INDIAN SUMMER IN TYROL – Fall Colors in the Alpine Regions of Tyrol

  High school students investigate different types of senescence in the alpine flora of the Tyrolean mountains

• Individual - Collective

  A reflection on aesthetic/social interactions using the example of an improvised music theatre production of Vinko Globokar´s score "Individuum - Collectivum" (1979)

• 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