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Campaign: UNInteresting? Ideas to Improve our Lives

Health, environment, work, culture: research impacts every area of our lives. How? A new campaign shows just how this works.

UNInteressant - eine uniko-Kampagne über den konkreten Nutzen von Forschung.
UNInteressant - eine uniko-Kampagne über den konkreten Nutzen von Forschung.

Water tests that could prevent epidemics and technology to convert CO2 in to industrial alcohol…. There are a countless number of projects showing in concrete terms just how science changes, shapes and improves our everyday lives. The Austrian University Conference (uniko) is launching a new, unique online campaign that will include all 22 public universities together with the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). uniko President Sabine Seidler talks about the campaign’s objectives: "We want to present easily understood information about just how universities and university-generated knowledge directly benefits our individual lives and strive for greater visibility about just how important research, science and universities is."

So: Get started and dive into the many research projects that are explained in user-friendly terminology and presented in unique, entertaining ways!