The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) specify grand societal challenges and fields of action. Academics and students of the University of Vienna contribute in a variety of ways to developing solutions for these challenges together with and for society.
The University of Vienna, on the one hand, provides the necessary academic foundations to address the necessary change to achieve the SDGs. On the other hand, it addresses questions from society and/or investigates these as part of research cooperation projects with partners from the business world and society. In participatory citizen science projects, academics investigate new issues together with citizens.
Moreover, the University of Vienna is involved in a wide range of measures aimed at communicating academic knowledge and thus increasing scientific literacy among adults and children. This provides the necessary basis for developing and implementing innovative solutions to the societal challenges of our time.