Working groups
Alpine Climate and Water Research
Monitoring and modelling of climatological and hydrological processes in mountain regions, mainly in the European Alps
Alpine dendrochronology
Works on questions of environmental and climatic development in the post-glacial period with a focus on high mountain regions by analysing woods
alpS Research
Researches the opportunities and risks of climate change and issues of sustainable development
Soil and landscape ecology
Deals with questions from the research areas of soil science and landscape ecology
Coupled Human-Landscape Systems: Risk & Resilience
Addressing challenges of greater mountain regions from a multi-dimensional and dynamic perspective
Demographic Change in the Alps/Ethnic Minorities
Deals with questions about the new mountain dwellers, modern migration processes and the dynamics of spatial ethnolinguistic development
Education and Communication for Sustainable Development
Focussed on the topic of "education for sustainable development" aIn response to the global grand challenges of the 21st century
Development of the montane soil landscape
Uses empirical and simulative approaches to study the long-term co-evolution of soils and landscapes, with particular emphasis on the complex interactions between soil development and natural hazards
Development and sustainability research
Critically examines questions of development and sustainability in the countries of the South and North, both in terms of content and methodology
Geoinformatics
Conducts research in the field of geoinformation in co-operation with the Alpine Club Cartography of the ÖAV
Human-environment systems research
Provides students with an early insight into scientific work in research practice
Transient Spaces & Societies
We do research at the intersections of digitisation, mobilities & urbanisation
Remote Sensing & Topographic LiDAR
Development and application of methods for handling new remote sensing data types and collected geoinformation
UniNeTZ
The main focus of UniNEtZ is to contribute to the transformation of society towards sustainability