Austria's Commitment to the 2030 Agenda

ACTIVE ON NATIONAL LEVEL
DIALOGUE WITH SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY
Thinking and doing science in a new way
In the UniNEtZ project, scientists leave
universities and lecture halls to actively
shape the world. What should our world
look like in 2030? And what do we have to
do today in Austria to achieve this?
These questions of the 2030 Agenda are
the motivating goal for hundreds of scientists
throughout Austria who have come
together in the UniNEtZ project. They are
breaking new ground in terms of transformative
research, teaching and the understanding
of science, and have caused a
sensation in Austria and internationally.
In the UniNEtZ project, experts from a wide
range of disciplines such as technology,
natural sciences, economics, social sciences
and the humanities, as well as music and
art, work together on creative solutions for
our future, bringing in a variety of perspectives.
In this way, proposals for measures
to achieve the SDGs were developed across
disciplines and together with people from
the real world.
this, proposals for measures to implement
the SDGs in Austria were developed,
published in the UniNEtZ Options Report
and submitted to the federal government.
In the second project phase UniNEtZ II
(2022 - 2024), the focus lies on helping
to implement the options. The central
guiding principle is the transformation
of our society towards sustainability. The
transdisciplinary dialogue with responsible
persons of our society is of particular
importance. For example, workshops are
organised with officials from federal and
state governments. Or, as in the current
cooperation of UniNEtZ with the Austrian
Parliament, scientific findings on the individual
SDGs are explained in expert teams
with members of the National Council and
presented in the course of plenary days in
parliament. 20
Franz Fehr
Council Chair UniNEtZ
and BOKU-SDG Coordinator
In the first phase of the UniNEtZ I project
(2019 - 2021), a site analysis was first
conducted on the significance of sub-goals
and indicators of the 2030 Agenda for
Austria, and published in the UniNEtZ
Perspectives Report in 2020. Based on
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