Sparkling Science

Projects

• 4 W – What We Want to KnoW

  Collaborative information-integration supported by intelligent software

• „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

• Sparkling Geomagnetic Field

  Geomagnetic variations during the upcoming solar maximum: Causes and regional consequences

• Playful Learning

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

• Speech synthesis of auditory lecture books for blind school children (SALB)

  Speech synthesis of auditory lecture books for blind school children

• Seeking Traces: Hall in Motion

  Resarch and Exhibition on Labor Migration in the Region of Hall in Tyrol (1960’s until today)

• 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

• ON THE ROAD

  Young people travelling through the world of science and everyday life

• 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

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• 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

• Paternity leave

  Paternity leave: Impacts on male careers

• 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

• Forest-Timber-Raw Material

  Analyses of the historical wood utilization with the help of objects from the Austrian Open Air Museum Stuebing

• 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