Within the scope of a closer collaboration in the area of energy and environment, the Lions Club Wien St. Stephan supports young academics and makes available since 2015 a sponsorship for PhD students of the TU Wien in the amount of € 4.000,-.

The support covers necessary expenses within doctoral thesis focussing on energy and environment – in particular: study trips abroad, participation at scientific congresses, scientific publications, etc.

The submissions are examined by a jury with representatives of the Lions Club and the TU Wien and are evaluated by general and scientific criteria (demonstration of the use of the subsidies, description of the scientific methodology, innovation degree of the work, as well as their potential).

Lions Sponsorship 2024

In 2024 the Lions Sponsorship was awarded for the tenth time. 23 submissions from 6 faculties of the TU Wien have been examined by a jury out of members of the Lions Club (Dr. Herbert Hochegger; DI Michael Walter, Mag. Otto Postl) and the TU Wien (Prof. Wolfgang Kastner; Prof. Franz Winter, Prof. Azra Korjenic and Dr. Gudrun Weinwurm).

The Lions Sponsorship 2024 was awarded to Mr.Univ.Ass. Dipl.-Ing. Pablo Ayala  from the Research Group for Molecular Materials Chemistry for his work: "Ti-based Hybrid Materials for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution Reaction".