Spring, 2020

Flight Shame getting to you? The ÖBB Nightjet offers low-impact alternative routes to several major European cities – or did so before the corona lockdown. A nightly trip to Milan on the eve of the coronavirus crises.

Spoon offers feel-good food, great value and brisk service, but speed is a double-edged sword.

How the far-right deceives the public and undermines democracy. A conversation with linguist Ruth Wodak.

Inventing something new is one thing. Turning it into a product is quite another. Here's how founders and researchers take ideas to market

Wolfgang Siemann draws on newly discovered notes and letters to paint a more nuanced portrait of diplomat and statesman Klemens von Metternich.

The Jewish Museum and a recently published book re-evaluate the myths surrounding Hedy Lamarr

Wandering around the diverse and historic campus of Austria’s largest and best-known academic institution is compelling even if you are no longer a student

Modern gastropub with a well-considered drink selection and delectable food

Hoping to the last to soften Brexit, while welcoming Scotland, the perennial European faces an even greater challenge: to strengthen the continent’s vision of itself.

Can startups help reach the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals? In Vienna, Circle17 started an Impacthon to find out.

Robert Musil’s epic Austrian classic gets cut down to size to explore love and identity across the boundaries of self.

After guiding the Austrian Wine Marketing Board (ÖWM) through 15 successful years, Willi Klinger has returned to selling wines from all over at up-market retailer Wein & Co

There is a new way to do good that promises to provide the tools to have the most impact – Effective Altruism.

Canceled or moved online in the age of Corona, the program of this year’s Wiener Festwochen seemed surprisingly prescient.

Even without a single nuclear reactor, Austria plays a vital role in ensuring the safe and peaceful use of nuclear energy.

If you are an innovator in Europe, it pays to know how to protect your inventions.

Although the current situation is everything but easy on the labor market, things will certainly change again. Prepare now with the tips of our expert in recruiting.

From saving mothers to preventing blood clots and unraveling the secrets of our physical universe, Vienna’s scientists have advanced humanity through the ages.

Zilla Boyer a political scientist, campaigner and pod-cast creator who joined WoV in search of adventure when she relocated here almost three years ago.

“I like wearing the white coat. I always pictured them on mad scientists in laboratories – that’s what I wanted to do.”

Small and cozy, eating at Patrick Sowa’s Seidengasse 31 is like having dinner in your living room.

The U.S. Pentagon funds critical studies in medicine and quantum physics in Austria. Does this threaten the country’s neutrality or academic freedom?

“I tell my students, ‘I can get your foot in the door, but then you have to open it.’ I’m the kind of person who once I get my foot in, I will bang that door down.”

Amid Austria’s glowing record of scientific enterprise, women’s involvement in the natural sciences has grown, albeit far too slowly. That may be changing.

For the 250th anniversary of the great composer’s birth, Vienna has pulled out all the stops; join us in tracing his footsteps.

“You could attach significance to any moment in history. Right now people are saying ‘Things are really changing’ – it’s about a search for meaning.”

STEM-tastic opportunities await Vienna’s children, even before their first science class at school.

No stranger to challenges, the general manager of the Vienna Business Agency, Gerhard Hirczi is placing the city’s assets front and center.

“A [spending] limit for supercomputers? Well, it was unthinkable to fly to the moon before they managed to – but it wasn’t cheap!”

Having two homes is confusing, and the choice between convenience and (fragile) ideology, even more so.

Our publisher Margaret Childs introduces our spring issue, which is all about research, development, innovation and science – we present the Minds of Vienna.

The Importance Of Research And Innovation Flip through the digital version