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Illustration: A boy and a girl working on the computer
We are looking for a person who will work closely with the management and provide support in financial management, personnel agendas and office organisation. Details
Eine Collage aus unterschiedlichen Experimenten rund um Wald, Waldbrand und Umweltschutz
Submit Science Snacks and win! How can you explain knowledge about forest fires in a child-friendly way? We are looking for your best ideas for Science Snacks: simple experiments about forests, forest fires or all measures that help prevent forest fires! Send us your Science Snacks as a short video, text instruction or instruction with […]
A mediator and children at the DOCK sitting cross-legged
New school year – new workshop sessions at DOCK With the new school year, we are once again offering numerous new workshop sessions for primary and lower secondary schools at DOCK on Vienna’s Danube Canal. Whether climate education, economic topics, extremism prevention or coding – a wide range of workshops can be booked! All information […]
Children and a team member sit on mats in the park and experiment
Curious children can listen to lectures, carry out research projects and try out exciting experiments for themselves in the park and other great locations again this summer! In July and August 2024, the children’s university will be going on tour through Vienna again. view the program
KinderuniWien-Studierende in einem Workshop
From July 8-19, children can once again attend courses at all participating universities: the University of Vienna, the Medical University of Vienna, the Vienna University of Technology, the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, the FH Campus Vienna and the Vienna University of Economics and Business. https://kinderuni.at/en/ […]
Presentation at the DOCK for Change Conference on 14th of June, 2024
What would it be like if children decided what the future would look like? As part of the DOCK for Change closing conference on the festival grounds of the Climate Biennale on the annual theme “Urban nature to marvel at”, decision-makers from science, politics, media and culture were able to get an idea of this. […]
Online workshop for school classes: via laptop, the experiment with hairdryer and objects of different weights can be observed live.
An interactive online workshop for pupils in grades 5 - 8. What can we all do to help stop the ever-growing garbage piles? The pupils explore this question in the new online workshop. They deal interactively and intensively with the principles of the recycling management.
Wald im Glas
Workshops for schools can currently be booked at the DOCK. A brand new workshop for the 3rd and 4th grades is “Urban nature to marvel at”. The DOCK for Change future workshops “Sauber Unterwegs” for 3rd and 4th grade and for 5th to 8th grade are also all about climate education. “Once upon a time […]
children painting
We are looking for creative and humorous pedagogues for our nurseries. Details
21. January 2024

Climate Day

A day full of experiences on the topic of climate and energy for school classes from 2nd to 4th grade Details and booking
Online workshop for school classes: via laptop, the experiment with hairdryer and objects of different weights can be observed live.
Currently there are free WebLab workshops for 5th to 8th graders. The workshops are conducted via Zoom. Dates for the topic “My money in the world” can be booked now. Details and registration
DOCK exterior view
Semester break and still have a lot to do for school? You don’t want to study alone or you have to do a group work? Whether you’re doing something for your VWA or want to study for tests and schoolwork: you’ve come to the right place! What do we offer? A warm place to study […]
Christmas tea light
18. December 2023

Christmas and New Year

We wish you wonderful Christmas holidays and a good start into the New Year! So that it doesn’t get boring now: Research question: What burns in a candle? https://kinderuni.online/kurs/es-werde-licht/ We look forward to many events, exciting topics and new formats. Let us surprise you.
Online workshop for school classes: via laptop, the experiment with hairdryer and objects of different weights can be observed live.
Currently there are free WebLab workshops for 5th to 8th graders. The workshops are conducted via Zoom. Dates for the topics “Facts, facts, facts ─ how does knowledge get into science?” and “My money in the world” can be booked now. Details and registration
Worshop at the DOCK, Children and Coaches
Workshops for schools can currently be booked at the DOCK: The DOCK for Change future workshops “Sauber Unterwegs” are all about climate education. The “Once upon a time there was money?!” workshop focuses on financial education. Click here for details and booking.
Children at a research station of the Vienna University Children's Office
On September 29th, there will once again be a unique opportunity to gain exciting insights into research and cutting-edge technologies and the MINT fields – that’s the abbreviation for mathematics, computer science, natural sciences and technology! On this day, the Researchers’ Night for curious young researchers of tomorrow will take place all over Europe! In […]
Kurbeln statt Schwurbeln (Cranking instead of rambling): The electricity for the mobile cinema is generated with bicycles.
Under the motto “Kurbeln statt Schwurbeln” (Cranking instead of rambling), cinema, science and the bicycle come together from May 15th to June 19th 2023 to create an open-air cinema experience of a very special kind. Curious? Here you can find the fantastic movie program: www.kurbeln.at
The focus of the DOCK, the Laboratory for Future Issues, is on climate education, digital education, democracy education, and economic and financial education. Click here for the exciting workshop program!
In 2022, the Children’s University on Tour spent not just 5, but 20 days at various schools in Lower Austria. The 9-member team visited a total of 15 schools, 41 school classes and about 860 children and talked and researched with them on the topic of “How does knowledge get into science”. Together with the […]
It is impossible to imagine our modern world without money. That makes it all the more important to gather as much information about it as possible! Click here (in German only) to go to the research package, which contains a total of 8 articles. Some of the articles in the research package on financial education […]