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Nomination for the Ars Docendi State Prize for Excellent Teaching

06. June 2025

Atlas der guten Lehre — © Federal Ministry of Women, Science and Research

The project “Automated TUWEL LVA Assessment of Exams and Laboratory Exercises” was included in the “Atlas of Good Teaching”.

EXPO Field Trip 2025 – in the Land of the Rising Sun

06. June 2025

Group picture Austria Pavillon EXPO 2025

The Field Trip 2025 as part of EXPO was a fascinating journey through three of Japan's most important cities: Tokyo, Osaka, and Kyoto. In just five…

Urban development in Ottakring

05. June 2025

Exploring Ottakring was the motto for this year's ERASMUS students at our institute.

ÖGG Support Award

05. June 2025

ÖGG Support Award for outstanding diploma theses awarded at the 4th J-YMA Symposium in Leoben

ICSOS Young Scientist Prize for Alexander Imre

05. June 2025

Alexander Imre (center) at the award ceremony — © Stefan Uttenthaler

Alex Imre of the Surface Physics group got awarded the prize for the best contribution of a young scientist at the 16th European Conference on Surface…

The Quantum Physics of Forgetting Information

05. June 2025

Decorative image with streams of zeros and ones. — © Oliver Diekmann, oliver-diekmann.graphics / TU Wien

In a collaboration between TU Wien and FU Berlin, researchers have measured what happens when quantum physical information is lost. This clarifies…

TU Partner Meeting in the Austria Pavilion at Expo 2025 in Osaka

05. June 2025

Group photo of the TU delegation with our Japanese partners — © Alexander Farrell

As part of our stay in Japan, JASEC organised a partner meeting between TU Wien and our Japanese partner institutions on 19 May 2025 in the Austrian…

Pint of Science Austria Festival

04. June 2025

[Translate to English:] Heide Schaar (links) und Helmut Rechberger (recht) im Pint Of Science Festival

Presenting research doesn’t always have to happen in a conference hall — sometimes, the best conversations start in a pub!
At this year’s Pint of…

Learning Under Tension – Site Visit to a Prestressed Bridge

04. June 2025

Groupphoto excursion students from Betonbau 2

On June 2, 2025, we visited the construction site of the new prestressed concrete bridge near the Ast Seestadt West, crossing the ÖBB and Wiener…

Triumph for the Standard Model of Physics

04. June 2025

Aerial view of a particle accelerator: a round blue structure with people and measuring instruments in the center. — © Fermilab, CC BY-SA 4.0

After years of research into the magnetic dipole moment of muons, theory and experiment have finally been compared with precision – with excellent…

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