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The InChildHealth project aims to improve indoor air quality in schools
InChildHealth project, in which AIT is a partner. It aims to improve air quality in schools. The two Competence Units Bioresources and Molecular Diagnostics of the AIT Center for Health and Bioresources [...] plinary collaboration between the groups at AIT Clara Pogner, Research Engineer in the Competence Unit Bioresources and project leader of the project at AIT explains: "Together with my colleague Ivan Barisic [...] The AIT Austrian Institute of Technology is an active research partner in the European IDEAL Cluster (Indoor Environmental Air Quality and Health). This project, funded by the European Health and Digital
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AIT microbiome expert Angela Sessitsch has been ranked among the "Highly Cited Researchers" worldwide for six years in a row.
Competence Unit Bioresources, is among the most cited researchers worldwide. In addition to her role at AIT, Angela Sessitsch is also Vice President of ÖGMBT - Austrian Association of Molecular Life Sciences
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AIT Bioresources team wins the Lower Austrian Innovation Award in the category "Best Innovation from Lower Austrian Research Institutions"
success at the Houska Prize 2023, as well as the AIT participation in the Cluster of Excellence "Microbiomes Drive Planetary Health". The award-winning AIT project focuses on the research and application [...] The Bioresources Team of the AIT Center for Health and Bioresources was honored for its innovative research achievements in the field of sustainable agriculture. With the project "Endophytes - the solution [...] to promote sustainable plant production. Through the development of advanced delivery technologies, AIT experts have commercialized endophytic strains such as Bacillus simplex KLA5-2 and Bacillus simplex
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Fighting the effects of climate change - two AIT experts in ORF documentary
Two AIT experts, Claudia Jonak, Competence Unit Bioresources at the AIT Center for Health and Bioresources, and Philip Leopold, Competence Unit Transportation Infrastructure Technologies at the AIT Center [...] to ORF-Streaming (DE): https://tv.orf.at/program/orf3/unserwette100.html Plant Vigor: https://www.ait.ac.at/themen/improvement-of-plant-quality-vigor/plant-stress-tolerance-mechanisms
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Revolutionary data storage technology: AIT-led consortium wins EIC Pathfinder Challenge funding
A consortium led by the AIT Competence Unit Molecular Diagnostics at the Center for Health and Bioresources has won EIC Pathfinder Challenge funding to use DNA as a data storage device. The group plans [...] technologies, such as multiplex assays, DNA nanotechnology, bioinformatics and synthetic biology. The AIT will be involved in almost all areas of the project and are mainly responsible for developing the hardware [...] of DNA-based data. Project coordinator Ivan Barisic, Competence Unit Molecular Diagnostics of the AIT Center for Health and Bioresources, leads the consortium of six partners from four EU countries and
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Stakeholder workshop on the topic of "Microplastics in agricultural soils".
Claudia Preininger, Competence Unit Bioresources of the AIT Center for Health and Bioresources, hosted a full-day stakeholder workshop at AIT Tulln with 35 participants, 14 of whom represented the core [...] impetus for education and teaching. NETmicroplastic‘s core network partners: AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GMBH (AIT), Austria HBLA und Bundesamt Klosterneuburg Wein- und Obstbau WasserCluster [...] The AIT-led NETmicroplastic project invited relevant stakeholders and interested members of the public to share their knowledge and ideas on the use of (micro)plastics in agriculture on April 27. The
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Angela Sessitsch and her team awarded 2nd place at the Houska Prize with Endoboost.
applied research in Austria. This year, Angela Sessitsch, Head of Competence Unit Bioresources at the AIT Center for Health and Bioresources with her team, is honored with the second place in the category [...] of plants and naturally promote their growth, health and resistance to stress. The research team at AIT is conducting research on strains and delivery technologies that ensure effective colonization of plants [...] chemicals in agriculture. The Houskapreis thus recognizes not only the team's outstanding research work at AIT, but also their contribution to strengthening Austria as a business location and sustainably improving
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First NETmicroplastic Stakeholder Workshop in Tulln: Focus on microplastics in agricultural soils.
The AIT Austrian Institute of Technology and 11 partners from Austria, Germany, Spain and the Netherlands are working on the investigation of microplastics in agricultural soils. NETmicroplastic is funded [...] field to our plates. NETmicroplastic, an RTI partnership launched by the Bioresources Group of the AIT Center for Health and Bioresources and 11 partners from four European countries, aims to foster dialogue
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Half a ton of waste in half a year for a good cause
canteen in Tulln could also be won over for the campaign. The Molecular Diagnostics Competence Unit at AIT's main site in Vienna has followed suit and started to implement the same measures in the HMD laboratories [...] , supports the laboratory staff in implementing further resource-saving measures. Thus, the total AIT contribution has already risen to more than half a ton of recyclable material for a good cause. More
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AIT is part of the Cluster of Excellence "Microbiomes Drive Planetary Health"
and to enable their targeted manipulation as an innovative solution for a sustainable future. For AIT, this opens up the opportunity to strengthen long-term collaborations with excellent Austrian research [...] Cluster of Excellence. The Cluster of Excellence "Microbiomes drive Planetary Health" will enable AIT to strengthen long-term collaborations with excellent Austrian research institutions and explore new [...] new applications of microbiomes. Angela Sessitsch, Head of Competence Unit Bioresources of the AIT Center for Health and Bioresources, commented: "We are thrilled to have been able to establish this Cluster
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MICROBE project kickoff for the next step in microbiome research
Bioresources of the AIT Center for Health and Bioresources is coordinating the project and can build on years of expertise in this field. The EU project MICROBE, which emerges from the AIT-coordinated EU project [...] and analysis of microbiomes. The project is coordinated by the Competence Unit Bioresources of the AIT Center for Health and Bioresources and builds on technical solutions for the conservation, propagation
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AIT Gender & Diversity Officer Prof. Dr. Elke Guenther Nominated for Minerva Award
companies and brands that are committed to promoting and supporting women in leadership positions. AIT Gender & Diversity Officer Prof. Dr. Elke Guenther, Head of Center for Health and Bioresources
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Digitalisation coupled with agroecology for sustainable agriculture in Europe
partner from 10 countries and is coordinated by the AIT Competence Unit Bioresources of the Center for Health and Bioresources. Also involved, from the AIT side, are the Center for Innovation Systems & [...] agriculture with the help of digital technologies across Europe. The partners: AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GMBH (AIT), Austria Acondicionamiento Tarrasense Associacion (LEITAT), Spain, Agroecology [...] - "Paving the Way towards Digitalisation Enabling Agroecology for European Farming Systems" led by AIT Austrian Institute of Technology was successfully launched on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2023 in Tulln, Austria
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Helping instead of throwing away - The labs of the Center for Health and Bioresources collect waste for a good cause
next collection!" The laboratory infrastructure of the Competence Unit Molecular Diagnostics (HMD) at AIT's main site in Vienna want to follow suit. The laboratory staff, with the support of Martin Jung, Head
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AIT microbiome expert Angela Sessitsch is among the "Highly Cited Researchers" worldwide for the fifth year in a row
Competence Unit Bioresources, is among the most cited researchers worldwide. In addition to her role at AIT, Angela Sessitsch is also Vice President of ÖGMBT - Austrian Association of Molecular Life Sciences
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AIT and TU Graz launch joint doctoral programme in the field of hydrogen technology
2023 with four PhD positions – two at AIT in Vienna and two at TU Graz – and will have a duration of three years. The application phase opened on 19 October 2022. Das AIT Austrian Institute of Technology und [...] contribution to strengthening Austria as a location for technology and knowledge.” AIT Center for Energy - Application At the AIT Center for Energy, around 250 employees are working on solutions for tomorrow’s [...] The AIT Austrian Institute of Technology and TU Graz will start a joint doctoral programme (PhD programme) on the topic of hydrogen technologies in the summer semester of 2023. With this new doctoral
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DPU and AIT organize symposium on nanoplastics
Technology (LiST). More than 2,000 students from 66 nations are enrolled at the DPU. AIT Austrian Institute of Technology The AIT Austrian Institute of Technology is Austria's largest research and technology [...] prevention, awareness, legislative efforts, and societal impact" in Vienna on September 15 and 16, 2022. AIT Austrian Institute of Technology The conference, which will be attended by around 30 scientists from [...] eight European nations, is being jointly organized by Danube Private University (DPU) in Krems and the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology. The conference is chaired by the top French researcher Corinne Nardin
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How do we make crops as climate resistant as camelina?
and drought; traits that are more important today than ever before. In the H2020 project UNTWIST, AIT expert Claudia Jonak (Center for Health and Bioresources) is exploring the plant's secret to learn [...] drought and heat is possible for other crops as well. Claudia Jonak, UNTWIST project coordinator (AIT Competence Unit Bioresources of the Center for Health & Bioresources) explains: "On the one hand [...] challenges of climate change and to ensure their yield also under adverse environmental conditions." AIT is working closely with seven other European project partners: Institut National de Recherche pour
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CIS Compliance Summit 2022
between these areas. Helmut Leopold, Head of Center for Digital Safety & Security at the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, will give a presentation on the topic of "Secure digital future through
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Florentina Freynschlag is honored with the second place at the Rotary Science Award 2022
to energy deficiency, which limits agricultural yields. Florentina Freynschlag and Bioresources at AIT in Tulln are looking at how plants cope with low-energy conditions and what factors play an important [...] Second place: Freynschlag Florentina: Kinase-based Energy Homeostasis and Stress Resistance in Plants, AIT Third Place: Abu Zahra Nadine: Short-term fertilization efficiency of biobased phosphate fertilizers