# Experience our research
**Source**: https://www.univie.ac.at/en/research/experience-research
**Parent**: https://www.univie.ac.at/en/research/prizes-and-awards/erc-grants
**Academic research opens up new perspectives and drives innovation – with benefits for all**.
The University of Vienna brings research to the people with hands-on projects such as citizen science and engaging formats like the *Semester Question.*Highlights also include festivals such as the *Long Night of Research*, the *Viennese Research Festival* and *Pint of Science*.The *Vienna Children’s University* offers a whole host of wonderful formats and activities for the next generation.
**Meet our researchers, discover how knowledge is generated – and how it changes the world.**
- [### Long Night of Research
The Long Night of Research is Austria’s largest science event. Held every two years, it invites participants to discover the world of academia and research free of charge.
Sophisticated Pictures / Daniel Auer](https://langenachtderforschung.at/)
- [### Rudolphina Research Magazine
The University of Vienna’s research magazine offers insights into the latest discoveries through articles, interviews, podcasts, and videos.
Barbara Mair](https://rudolphina.univie.ac.at/)
- [### Children's University
Every summer, children aged 7 to 12 years are invited to enrol as students at the University for two weeks and experience what it is like to study – in a real lecture hall, with a student ID card and even a graduation ceremony.
Kinderbüro der Universität Wien/APA-Fotoservice/Juhasz
Fotograf/in: Krisztian Juhasz](https://kinderuni.at/)
- [### Citizen science
When citizens become scientists! What are you most interested in? Observing wild bees, counting bird species, documenting historic sources or collecting environmental data …
Konrad Lorenz Research Center](https://www.citizen-science.at/)
- [### University of Vienna's Semester Question
New every semester: answers to questions that move society.](https://rudolphina.univie.ac.at/im-ueberblick/alle-semesterfragen)
- [### Vienna lecture series
Big questions, open to everyone. Our experts explore issues of pressing societal relevance – from the climate crisis to digital humanities – through accessible insights and dialogue.
Ian Ehm](https://blog.univie.ac.at/tag/ringvorlesung/)
Exciting **collaborations**with companies, **new technologies**, successful **start-ups** – the University of Vienna is home to many success stories which show how visions become ideas and how our research has a real impact on society through practical applications.
We take on challenges head-first, and our academics work on making sustainable improvements for us and the world we live in.
[More about innovation and transfer](https://transfer.univie.ac.at/)
Ian Ehm
[### Female song in Galápagos warblers challenges assumptions about birdsong
18.03.2026
Press release
Study finds male and female songs may serve different functions](https://www.univie.ac.at/en/research/experience-research/details/gesang-weiblicher-galapagos-goldwaldsaenger-stellt-annahmen-ueber-vogelgesang-infrage)
[### Climate change slows Earth's spin: Day lengthening unprecedented in 3.6 million years
12.03.2026
Press release
Comparing fossil archives with modern measurements – Today's increase in day length stands out clearly in climate history](https://www.univie.ac.at/en/research/experience-research/details/climate-change-slows-earths-spin-day-lengthening-unprecedented-in-36-million-years)
[### The strange maths of tipping points
11.03.2026
Rudolphina
What do freezing water and pandemics have in common? Nathanaël Berestycki on the bewildering maths of phase transitions.](https://rudolphina.univie.ac.at/en/from-freezing-water-to-pandemics-the-mathematics-of-phase-transitions)
[More research-news](https://www.univie.ac.at/en/news/focus-on-research)
## Where is democracy heading?
[Semester question](https://rudolphina.univie.ac.at/en/democracy-humanrights?mtm_campaign=menschenrechte&mtm_kwd=startseiteEN)
[Gesundheit für alle? Primärversorgung und Pflege
Montag, 23. März 2026
16:00
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18:00
Antrittsvorlesung, Public Lecture](https://kalender.univie.ac.at/einzelansicht?tx_univieevents_pi1%5Baction%5D=show&tx_univieevents_pi1%5Bcontroller%5D=Event&tx_univieevents_pi1%5Bid%5D=23515&cHash=4ad92a8e623324babb56cbbdce56a748 "Gesundheit für alle? Primärversorgung und Pflege")
[From Athens to Constantinople VI: Late Antique and Byzantine Literature in Context
Montag, 23. März 2026
17:00
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19:00
Workshop](https://kalender.univie.ac.at/einzelansicht?tx_univieevents_pi1%5Baction%5D=show&tx_univieevents_pi1%5Bcontroller%5D=Event&tx_univieevents_pi1%5Bid%5D=23671&cHash=d7424584b1a2f9a7d2508615e722a116 "From Athens to Constantinople VI: Late Antique and Byzantine Literature in Context")
[From Athens to Constantinople VI: Late Antique and Byzantine Literature in Context
Dienstag, 24. März 2026
09:30
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17:30
Workshop](https://kalender.univie.ac.at/einzelansicht?tx_univieevents_pi1%5Baction%5D=show&tx_univieevents_pi1%5Bcontroller%5D=Event&tx_univieevents_pi1%5Bid%5D=23672&cHash=9d74f8db3e4b1baa68a5f101d24e9c92 "From Athens to Constantinople VI: Late Antique and Byzantine Literature in Context")
[Public Lecture mit Carolina Plescia
Donnerstag, 26. März 2026
15:00
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16:30
Antrittsvorlesung, Public Lecture](https://kalender.univie.ac.at/einzelansicht?tx_univieevents_pi1%5Baction%5D=show&tx_univieevents_pi1%5Bcontroller%5D=Event&tx_univieevents_pi1%5Bid%5D=23725&cHash=abaf40125866046d0d662c5b85e7b65e "Public Lecture mit Carolina Plescia")
[More events](https://kalender.univie.ac.at/)
- [Can this medieval shipwreck rewrite ancient history?
Scientific American
12.03.2026](https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/byzantine-medieval-shipwreck-croatia)
- [How horses whistle and sing at the same time
earth.com
23.02.2026](https://www.earth.com/news/how-horses-whistle-and-sing-at-the-same-time/)
- [Polymers that crawl like worms: How materials can develop direction without being told where to go
phys.org
05.03.2026](https://phys.org/news/2026-03-polymers-worms-materials-told.html)
- [Days really are dragging! Length of days on Earth is increasing at an 'unprecedented' rate – and scientists say climate change is to blame
Daily Mail
13.03.2026](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-15642669/Length-days-increasing-climate-change.html)