The project to introduce an extinct bird back to Europe is hailing success after successfully negotiating a new route over the Alps and training 14 Northern Bald Ibises how to fly south to winter feeding grounds in southern Tuscany. The project led by Johannes Fritz involved inprinting the baby birds by persuading them that human […]
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Rapid Vienna have unveiled the designs for the football club’s new stadium in the Austrian capital to a standing ovation and an emotional presentation featuring players from past and present. The new stadium, which managers say will be ready for use by 2016, will up the capacity for games to 28,000 and expect to bring […]
Russia and Austria sign major gas deal
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A deal between Austria and Russia that will see gas being piped around Europe via Austria by 2017 has been signed by heads of two major gas companies. The news comes after the Russian gas giant Gazprom met in Vienna with Austrian partners last week, after which the company announced that they had agreed on […]
An Austrian doctor is claiming to have created the first drive-in doctors surgery – at a petrol station. Visitors who turn up for treatment can spend the waiting time filling up their cars, putting them in the washer or shopping in the petrol station supermarket while they wait to be called by Dr Dieter Zakel, […]
Kids taught luck in schools
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An Austrian pilot project to teach “luck” to students in classes in the southern province of Styria is now to be expanded across the country after it was hailed as a success in making kids happier and feeling better about themselves. Teachers are already starting to get training in how to teach the lessons in […]
The capacity to think about how the present would be if an event in the past had taken a different course is referred to by experts as counter-factual reasoning. A research project funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF plans to examine how this kind of thinking develops, and identifies what distinguishes counter-factual reasoning from […]
Vienna celebrated the winners of the “smart ideas” competition to promote all things bicycle last night (Monday). The first place, and 7,000 Euros prize money, went to the Wiener Rad AG for their bike-storeroom project. They distinguished themselves from 235 other projects which were presented on the theme “bicycle” in the context of a competition […]
Sixth-formers at the private mechanical and electronic technical college in Lienz in Tirol have been building solar panels in Tanzania since 2006. They have also been travelling to the country to teach locals how to operate the solar installations in schools and hospitals – such as the one built in partnership with the organisation Life […]
An extraordinary housing project by VinziRast will start in the next couple of days in Vienna: students and homeless people will live and work together in a house at Währinger Straße. The idea emerged two years ago, when students contacted the constructor Hans Peter Haselsteiner. As he agreed that he would finance the project, it […]
A new solar bus is now in use in Hornstein, Burgenland (Eastern Austria), which is operated by an electric motor. The Technical University in Graz and several companies in Burgenland have been involved in the project. The solar bus, which has 68-horse power, can drive without making any sound. The power for the electric motor […]