Our mission at the Department of Geography and Regional Research is to advance cutting-edge, creative and globally competitive research, which defines our discipline and has positive impacts on society and to translate this research into excellent teaching. This will empower our students to become critical and responsible graduates, teachers in Geography and Economic Education and global citizens. We strongly believe that Geography with its focus on space-time relationships and dynamics is centrally relevant for tackling the grand societal challenges that we are currently facing. Since the establishment of our department in 1885, we have nurtured the plurality and diversity of concepts and methods and fostered inter- and transdisciplinary cooperation, which are necessary to address the challenges of the 21st century. We aim to provide an inclusive, collegial and inspiring environment that enables all members of the department to unlock their potential and contribute to our mission.


News

28.10.2025
 

Was passiert, wenn Schüler*innen für 21 Tage ihr Smartphone ausschalten?

Die DOK 1-Reportage “Drei Wochen Handy-Entzug: Das Experiment” im ORF hat...

06.10.2025
 

On September 26, 2025, the first workshop on LIFE AMooRe work package 4.4 took place in Gumpenstein. The University of Vienna and the research team at...

08.09.2025
 

With her dissertation on “Drought-influenced greenhouse gas fluxes and their emission pathways of the subsaline reed ecosystem of Lake Neusiedl”,...

24.07.2025
 

The Urban Sustainability Living Lab (USLL) in collaboration with UniVie Innovation Team and City of Vienna offer a course on Urban Research to...

22.07.2025
 

Geoecologist Stephan Glatzel, biogeochemist Kyle Boodoo and microbiologist Petra Pjevac explain in an ECH article, why mires and peat bogs are...

19.06.2025
 

Die two Teaching Awards of the Faculty go to Oliver Hahn, Agata Wislocka und Bodo Ziegler for the course Cosmology and to Janek Walk and Philipp Marr...

Research and publications

Events

15.10.2025
 

Marion Borderon has collaborated with colleagues to create an Atlas of the French Population

22.09.2025
 

Study in Biogeosciences on the temporal dynamics of methane emission pathways and sediment properties of a subsaline reed wetland

24.04.2025
 

Sterly H., Borderon M., Sakdapolrak P. et al (2025)

Global Environmental Change 90, 102953

17.11.2025
 

ÖGG-Vorträge im Wintersemester 2025

17.11.2025
 

Soziale Diskriminierung des Wohnens

ÖGG-Vortrag

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Andreas Koch