Blogs

Turning Waste into Power: Visit to Vienna’s Wastewater Treatment Plant

February 27, 2025
ENVS students visiting Vienna Main Wastewater Treatment Plant Simmering
Our students of the course Sustainable Water Management took part on a field trip with course instructor Prof. Zoltan Illes on February 17, 2025, and got an inside look at one of the most efficient wastewater treatment plants in the world, the Vienna Main Wastewater Treatment Plant Simmering! Not only do they clean the water before releasing it into the Danube, but they also generate electricity from water outflow and produce biogas from sediment.

CORUSUS courses continue to inspire students on challenges of rural sustainability

January 7, 2025

Ethnoecology course; 3rd time at CEU with growing success

Meet Alexios Antypas, Head of the Doctoral Program of ENVS

January 2, 2024

Collaborating for Rural Sustainability – CORUSUS network

November 29, 2023
Pastoralism in rural environment

“The sustainability of livestock farmers is a crucial topic not much addressed by academic research till now” /Prof. Ruslan Rakhimov (AUCA)/

Sustainable Food Roundtable on 21 March, 2023

April 3, 2023
Sustainable Food Roundtable invitation

Last Tuesday, the 21st of March, our students ran a sustainable food roundtable. This discussion, moderated by our MESPOM student Jocelyn Wong, sought to explore what sustainable food means in a Viennese context. It did so by drawing together people working in this field from in and around Vienna.