How do homeless men cope with their role as fathers? Campus Wien University is researching the effects of hegemonic masculinity and institutional frameworks on fathers receiving homeless assistance…
The ESRA psychosocial centre has been working as an innovative and professional counselling and treatment centre since 1994 and has developed into a trauma competence centre over many years of…
The most important components of the cell wall of fungi are chitin, chitosan and glucan. In particular, chitosan, the deacetylated form of chitin, plays a crucial role in the resistance of…
From 2030 onwards, in accordance with the European Union's circular economy strategy, all plastic packaging must be recyclable or reusable. This fact is putting pressure on the plastics processing…
The body's own rescue operation for burns
When the body is exposed to extreme heat, the cells start an emergency programmeViennese biotechnologists want to artificially trigger this mechanism with…
Development of methods for a more specific diagnosis of food allergies and investigation of the pathomechanisms of respiratory allergies
One research focus of the Immunology working group in…
Project duration: 1 October 2017 to 30 September 2019
This project aims to increase the international orientation of the part-time Bachelor's degree programme in Packaging Technology. On the one…
Project duration: 1.10.2017 to 31.3.2018 Based on factors such as climate change, scarcity of resources, population growth and a globalised market economy, the topic of sustainability in all its…
Now that the Viennese snail has established itself in haute cuisine, the aim is to successfully position it as a gourmet product in retail outlets. As the product and packaging are seen as a single…
The ‘Chitosan II’ research project at the University of Applied Sciences Campus Vienna (HCW) is developing sustainable, fermentative processes for the production of chitin and chitosan to replace…
