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fuTUre fit – Results of the Call for Projects

22. October 2025

The jury has decided: These eleven projects will receive funding.

Invisible secret codes from the 3D printer

22. October 2025

a greenish plastic object, next to it the same object after heating, showing a QR-code — © TU Wien

Materials that react to temperature: a development by TU Wien is now significantly expanding the possible applications of 3D printers.

Prof. Dr. Thorsten Rheinländer: An obituary

22. October 2025

portrait in black and white of Prof Rheinländer — © TU Wien/Matthias Heisler

TU Wien mourns the loss of Prof. Dr. Thorsten Rheinländer, who passed away unexpectedly in October 2025.

The Quantum Door Mystery: Electrons That Can’t Find the Exit

20. October 2025

Frog inside a box with a window — © TU Wien

What happens when electrons leave a solid material? This seemingly simple phenomenon has, until now, eluded accurate theoretical description. Now,…

Zeta Avarikioti winner of the Hedy Lamarr Preis 2025

17. October 2025

woman with microphone, red jacket, white shirt blonde hair to shoulder, Zeta Georgia Avarikioti, winner of the Hedy Lamarr Prize 2025 — © UIV/Clemens Schniedbauer

The City of Vienna honors the expert for Blockchain Technologies for her work on secure, scalable, and interoperable blockchain protocols.

Major WWTF funding for TU Wien projects

15. October 2025

colourful pivture with flowers framed by portraits of TUW scientists and researchers — © TU Wien Informatics

Funding for 12 projects from the Vienna Science and Technology Fund's 2025 call for proposals on “Information and Communication Technologies”

Philanthropy strengthens research: TU Wien Foundation establishes new fund

13. October 2025

Female researcher sitting in a laboratory looking through a microscope — © Klaus Ranger

An extraordinary act of philanthropy sets a new milestone for re-search with social impact at TU Wien: a private donation of four million euros will…

Finding treasures with physics: the fingerprint matrix

02. October 2025

two buried metal spheres, imaged with various methods — © TU Wien / Arthur Le Ber

How do you find objects buried in sand or hidden in thick fog? A team from the Institut Langevin (Paris) and TU Wien (Vienna) has developed an…

We’re starting again!

01. October 2025

blue background, in white letters text Keep Calm and enjoy the new Semester — © Kerstin Limbeck

Today is the official start of the winter semester.

Innovative transistors for quantum chips

23. September 2025

A new transistor technology does not require semiconductor doping – offering decisive advantages for controlling and reading quantum chips.

New type of time crystals discovered

22. September 2025

a lattice of particles, a wave emerging from it, and a symbolic stopwatch — © TU Wien

An exotic quantum phenomenon manifests itself under conditions where one would not normally expect it, show scientists at TU Wien (Vienna).

AI learns to obey laws

15. September 2025

Can artificial intelligence be made to follow predefined norms? At TU Wien, this has been achieved through a combination of logic and machine…

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Name	Purpose	Lifetime	Type	Provider
CookieConsent	Saves your settings for the use of cookies on this website.	1 year	HTML	Homepage TU Wien
SimpleSAML	This is needed to distinguish between the sessions of the logged-in users.	session	HTTP	Login TU Wien
SimpleSAMLAuthToken	This is needed to distinguish between the sessions of the logged-in users.	session	HTTP	Login TU Wien
fe_typo_user	Is needed so that in case of a Typo3 frontend login the session ID is recognized to grant access to protected areas.	session	HTTP	Homepage TU Wien
staticfilecache	Is needed to optimize the delivery time of the website.	session	HTTP	Homepage TU Wien
JESSIONSID	Is needed so that in case of a LectureTube the session ID is recognized to grant access to protected areas.	session	HTTP	LectureTube TU Wien
_shibsession_lecturetube	This is needed to distinguish between the sessions of the logged-in users.	session	HTTP	LectureTube TU Wien

Name	Purpose	Lifetime	Type	Provider
_pk_id	Used to store a few details about the user such as the unique visitor ID.	13 months	HTML	Matomo TU Wien
_pk_ref	Is used to store the information of the users home website.	6 months	HTML	Matomo TU Wien
_pk_ses	Is needed to store temporary data of the visit.	30 minutes	HTML	Matomo TU Wien

Name	Purpose	Lifetime	Type	Provider
facebook	Is used to Enable ad delivery or retargeting	90 days	HTTP	Meta
__fb_chat_plugin	Is needed to store and track interactions (marketing/tracking).	persistent	HTTP	Meta
_js_datr	Is needed to save user settings.	2 years	HTTP	Meta
_fbc	Is needed to save the last visit (marketing/tracking).	2 years	HTTP	Meta
fbm	Is needed to store account data (marketing/tracking).	1 year	HTTP	Meta
xs	Is needed to store a unique session ID (marketing/tracking).	1 year	HTTP	Meta
wd	Is needed to log the screen resolution.	1 week	HTTP	Meta
fr	Is needed to serve ads and measure and improve their relevance.	3 months	HTTP	Meta
act	Is needed to store logged in users (marketing/tracking).	90 days	HTTP	Meta
_fbp	Is needed to store and track visits to various websites (marketing/tracking).	3 months	HTTP	Meta
datr	Is needed to identify the browser for security and website integrity purposes, including account recovery and identification of potentially compromised accounts.	2 years	HTTP	Meta
dpr	Is used for analysis purposes. Technical parameters are logged (e.g. aspect ratio and dimensions of the screen) so that Facebook apps can be displayed correctly.	1 week	HTTP	Meta
sb	Is needed to store browser details and security information of the Facebook account.	2 years	HTTP	Meta
dbln	Is needed to store browser details and security information of the Facebook account.	2 years	HTTP	Meta
spin	Is needed for promotional purposes and social campaign reporting.	session	HTTP	Meta
presence	Contains the "chat" status of logged in users.	1 month	HTTP	Meta
cppo	Is needed for statistical purposes.	90 days	HTTP	Meta
locale	Is needed to save the language settings.	session	HTTP	Meta
pl	Required for Facebook Pixel.	2 years	HTTP	Meta
lu	Required for Facebook Pixel.	2 years	HTTP	Meta
c_user	Required for Facebook Pixel.	3 months	HTTP	Meta
bcookie	Is needed to store browser data (marketing/tracking).	2 years	HTTP	LinkedIn
li_oatml	Is needed to identify LinkedIn members outside of LinkedIn for advertising and analytics purposes.	1 month	HTTP	LinkedIn
BizographicsOptOut	Is needed to save privacy settings.	10 years	HTTP	LinkedIn
li_sugr	Is needed to store browser data (marketing/tracking).	3 months	HTTP	LinkedIn
UserMatchHistory	Is needed to provide advertising or retargeting (marketing/tracking).	30 days	HTTP	LinkedIn
linkedin_oauth_	Is needed to provide cross-page functionality.	session	HTTP	LinkedIn
lidc	Is needed to store performed actions on the website (marketing/tracking).	1 day	HTTP	LinkedIn
bscookie	Is needed to store performed actions on the website (marketing/tracking).	2 years	HTTP	LinkedIn
X-LI-IDC	Is needed to provide cross-page functionality (marketing/tracking).	session	HTTP	LinkedIn
AnalyticsSyncHistory	Stores the time when the user was synchronized with the "lms_analytics" cookie.	30 days	HTTP	LinkedIn
lms_ads	Is needed to identify LinkedIn members outside of LinkedIn.	30 days	HTTP	LinkedIn
lms_analytics	Is needed to identify LinkedIn members for analytics purposes.	30 days	HTTP	LinkedIn
li_fat_id	Required for indirect member identification used for conversion tracking, retargeting and analytics.	30 days	HTTP	LinkedIn
U	Is needed to identify the browser.	3 months	HTTP	LinkedIn
_guid	Is needed to identify a LinkedIn member for advertising via Google Ads.	90 days	HTTP	LinkedIn

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