Vienna Innovation Area – new hotspot in Floridsdorf

Floridsdorf now has a new hotspot for research, innovation and technology development: the Vienna Innovation Area.

This business location in Gieffinggasse is welcoming a new "big player" - the AIT - Austrian Institute of Technology is consolidating its locations in Vienna and moving its over 850 employees to the 21st district. With the AIT, Floridsdorf is getting another important player in the field of research and innovation. The high-tech location of the Vienna Innovation Area is situated in the immediate vicinity of Siemens City, Atos, Rail Tec Arsenal’s Climate Wind Channel, the FH Technikum University of Applied Sciences as well as other national and international companies involved in the field of technological research and innovation.

Vienna, 2018 April, 23
press release  (PDF in German)

CEU to open a satellite campus site in Vienna

Central European University (CEU) with ist home campus in Budapest plans to establish a new Campus in Vienna.

CEU plans to open a satellite campus site in Vienna, complementing its home campus in Budapest and its American site at Bard College in New York State. As the largest German-speaking university city, close to CEU’s home base in Budapest, Vienna offers ideal conditions for a new site. On the basis of a soon being signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), the Otto Wagner area will be examined as a possible location. Neben dem Hauptsitz

Vienna, 2018, April, 9
Pressrelease (PDF in German)

"Kinder, Kinder!" The winners have been selected.

The best design ideas were chosen from among 92 submissions to the Vienna Business Agency’s ideas competition.

The “Children, children!” ideas competition was aimed at finding new ideas, concepts, strategies, products and services that draw on children’s experiences of the world. The Vienna Business Agency supports particularly impressive solution approaches and concepts in becoming reality. 1st place with prize money of €7,000 goes to Sylvia Kostenzer with her project “REMAKE Residential Streets”. 2nd place (€5,000) along with the Audience Award (€1,500) goes to Alec Hager and her “Bicycle Playground Vienna” and 3rd place (€2,500) is awarded to “#stadtsache” (#citythings) from journalist Anke M. Leitzgen. The jury, chaired by architect Marie-Therese Harnoncourt, also gave out two Recognition Awards, to “Papperlapapp” from Karin Hirschberger and “Fun by Decree” from Stanislaus Medan.

Vienna, 2018, March, 18
Press release (PDF in German)

1st place: REMAKE Wohnstraße: https://youtu.be/pxJm7uGhX6A
2st place: Radspielplatz Wien: https://youtu.be/MFzDVotbim8
3rd place: #stadtsache: https://youtu.be/k4E-B8YQTxw