Austria has a long-standing tradition in polar research and posses a number of excellent researchers from varying disciplines, who Substantially contribute to international research in the Arctic and Antarctic. Scientists from the Universities of Vienna and Innsbruck, the Technical University of Vienna and the Central Institute of Meteorology and Geodynamics Therefore have recently founded the Austrian Polar Research Institute. The goals of this new institute are to consolidate the fragmented polar research activities in Austria, to develop joint interdisciplinary research programs and to increase the international visibility of the Austrian polar research.

 

The Austrian Polar Research Institute now invites interested parties to an opening presentation at the University of Vienna, Monday 8 April, 2013.

 

Welcome

Heinz W. Engl, rector of the University of Vienna
Karlheinz Töchterle, Federal Minister for Science and Research
Michael Staudinger, Director of the Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics

 

Presentation on the new Austrian Polar Research Institute

Andreas Richter, a professor at the University of Vienna and head of the Austrian Polar Research Institute 

 

Volker Rachold, Executive Secretary of the International Arctic Science Committee

 

Heinz Miller, deputy director of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research

 

Moderation

Horst Seidler, Dean of the Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Vienna

 

 

Following a small reception

 

Time: Monday, 8 April 2013, 17 clock c.t.

Location: Small Hall of the University of Vienna, University of Ring 1, 1010 Vienna