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Global Retreat of Glaciers Has Strongly Accelerated

International researchers with the participation of TU Graz present a global assessment of ice loss since the beginning of the millennium. In a global comparison, the glaciers in the Alps and Pyrenees are melting the fastest. Read more 19. February 2025

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TU Graz Risk Assessment Tool Evaluates Potential Dangers of GNSS Interference Signals

Falsified or disrupted signals from navigation satellites can have devastating effects on critical infrastructure. A tool from TU Graz helps to detect, analyse and plan preventive measures. Read more 13. February 2025

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Starting Signal for Innovations in Sustainable Construction

TU Graz and Bundesimmobiliengesellschaft (BIG) lay the foundations for pioneering sustainable construction projects and for a flagship project in the form of an experimental building with international appeal in a joint memorandum of understanding.

7. February 2025

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Interactive Career Guidance via VR Glasses

Together with Jugend am Werk Steiermark, the Game Lab Graz at TU Graz has developed a VR application in which young people can get to know various apprenticeships better.

6. February 2025

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TU Graz and Österreichische Post Conduct Research in New Projects and Extend Cooperation

The long-standing, trusting cooperation project between the Institute of Logistics Engineering and Österreichische Post (Austrian Post) will continue over the next two years. The first two projects have already started.

31. January 2025

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Green Location TU Graz for Environmentally Friendly Events

TU Graz has been certified as a “Green Location” since last year. This makes it even easier to organise environmentally friendly events.

30. January 2025

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E-Mobility: TU Graz AI System Accelerates the Development of Powertrains

The new method optimises the technical design with regard to classic objectives such as costs, efficiency and package space requirements and also takes greenhouse gas emissions along the entire supply chain into account.

30. January 2025

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Microporous Crystals for Greater Food Safety – ERC Proof of Concept Grant for TU Graz Researcher

A research team led by Paolo Falcaro has developed a microporous crystal compound that signals whether protein-rich foods are spoilt. The ERC grant is now being used to explore practical applications.

23. January 2025

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Optimised Parcel Logistics through Virtual Models

In a parcel hub, a wide variety of manual and automated work steps are interlinked, offering a great deal of potential for optimisation. TU Graz wants to unlock this potential by simulating complete hubs.

22. January 2025

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Employee Satisfaction as a Factor for Increasing Efficiency in Parcel Logistics

Fast and reliable work in a parcel hub is an important piece of the puzzle for successful logistics. TU Graz is carrying out research into how a focus on satisfied and well-treated employees can bring benefits.

22. January 2025

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Autonomous AI Assistant to Build Nanostructures

An interdisciplinary research group at TU Graz is working on constructing logic circuits through the targeted arrangement of individual molecules. Artificial intelligence should speed up the process enormously.

16. January 2025

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Realistic Emission Tests for Motorbikes, Mopeds and Quads

As part of an international project consortium, TU Graz has developed new measurement techniques and methods to measure emissions from category-L vehicles in realistic operation and to determine corresponding limit values.

9. January 2025

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Creative Mind with a Love of Fuel Cells

Michaela Roschger has a creative mind, enjoys painting and conducting research into more efficient ethanol fuel cells.

8. January 2025

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TU Graz Develops Modular Timber High-Rise Building for Resource-Efficient Construction

Repairable and exchangeable skeleton modules with open load-bearing structures enable different types of use and uncomplicated adaptations in the event of future changes. Building heights of up to 24 storeys are possible.

19. December 2024

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One Nobel Prize Winner and Some 600 Science Enthusiasts

At BioTechMed-Graz’s 2024 Nobel Lecture, physicist Ferenc Krausz spoke about attosecond physics and how it can be used in healthcare.

17. December 2024

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Uni Graz and TU Graz use historical aerial photographs to study glacier retreat

The photographs taken by the US Air Force offer a unique opportunity to analyse the state of Austrian glaciers on a large scale after the end of the Second World War.

16. December 2024

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Graz Language Database Improves Automatic Speech Recognition of Austrian German

With the “Graz corpus of read and spontaneous speech”, researchers at TU Graz have developed new methods for speech recognition of Austrian German using speech data from 38 people.

12. December 2024

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TU Graz Awards 100 Scholarships to STEM Talents from 17 Countries

400,000 euros is being awarded to 38 STEM students by TU Graz together with partners from industry and the public sector, thereby investing in the future of the location.

9. December 2024

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Mind_the Gap Awards – Honouring Diversity in Practice

TU Graz has honoured five projects with diversity awards – including a work on an AI-generated voice for people with speech impairments and a game that inspires young women to take up programming.

5. December 2024

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Improving Safety in the Open Air: TU Graz Evaluates Lightning Risk in Real Time

Airport aprons, large construction sites or open-air events are usually defenceless against lightning. To increase safety and reduce downtimes, electrical engineers at TU Graz are developing a forecasting system.

5. December 2024

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Vienna’s Smart Traffic Lights Are Now Getting Even Smarter

With higher computing power and adapted AI training, the system developed at TU Graz can control several pedestrian crossings simultaneously and recognises people with limited mobility or strollers. The green phase can thus be extended as required.

28. November 2024

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CD Laboratory at TU Graz Researches New Semiconductor Materials

Using energy- and resource-saving methods, a research team at the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry at TU Graz aims to produce high-quality doped silicon layers for the electronics and solar industries.

22. November 2024

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TU Graz Honours Six Lecturers for Outstanding Achievements

In recognition of their high level of commitment, outstanding didactic concepts and special motivation, the winners will receive the 2023/2024 Prize for Excellence in Teaching.

21. November 2024

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Master Plan for TU Graz’s Campus Inffeldgasse

Campus Inffeldgasse will continue to grow in the coming decades. In addition to more space for teaching, learning and research, the masterplan envisages a more open campus with extensive green areas and public sports facilities.

19. November 2024

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A TU Graz Development Makes Concreting More Reliable, Safer and More Economical

With a digital monitoring system developed in-house, researchers at TU Graz want to help make costly and potentially dangerous mistakes in concrete work a thing of the past.

14. November 2024

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Experts Urge Complex Systems Approach to Assess A.I. Risks

The social context and its complex interactions must be considered and public engagement must be encouraged.

13. November 2024

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TU Graz Wins Highly Endowed ERC Synergy Grant for Biomechanical Heart Research

The European Research Council is funding a consortium consisting of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, ETH Zurich and TU Graz with a total of 10 million euros. TU Graz researcher Gerhard A. Holzapfel receives 4.2 million euros.

5. November 2024

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Laser Measurements to Track Space Debris and Observe Water Masses

More accurate orbit predictions for satellites and space debris as well as a better understanding of the water masses present on Earth: Researchers at TU Graz have achieved both using satellite laser ranging.

30. October 2024

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