RESEARCH

Research profile

The University of Klagenfurt is home to a range of priority research fields in which researchers are working on projects to address pressing social issues. Over and above the four faculties and the range of subjects they represent, the following (partly) overarching main areas of research have emerged:

Networked & Autonomous Systems
Researchers working in this area of research strength are involved in developing the mobile communication networks and internet architectures of the future, resource-conserving, reliable sensors and camera networks and innovative, user-friendly multimedia systems.
Energy Management & Energy Technology
Researchers in this flagship research cluster develop ecologically, technologically and economically beneficial solutions thus contributing to a sustainable society and economy.
Sustainability
Sustainable development, understood as a regulative concept of environmentally compatible, socially just, economically viable development, is an area of research that is picking up pace worldwide. This clusters has adopted an interdisciplinary approach in order to meet the demands of sustainability research and to provide science-based policy advice.
Self-organizing Systems
This flagship research cluster attempts to understand systems in which each individual component interacts and responds with the system’s other components and the environment. Nature is often used as an example for processes in economics, psychology and technology.
Visual Culture
Images are everywhere and now have a more prominent place than ever in our everyday lives. The university’s flagship research cluster in ‘Visual Culture’ explores how these images communicate meaning in cultural and social contexts.
Humans in the Digital Age (HDA)
Digitalization permeates vast areas of human life. It bears both opportunities and risks for human coexistence, the consequences of which cannot adequately be assessed in many areas today. Yet one thing is certain: Digitalization is accompanied by profound processes of change. With its research area “Humans in the Digital Age”, the University of Klagenfurt endeavours to make a decisive contribution to generating scientific knowledge about humankind in the digital age.

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Main research areas

Research information system

An overview of research activities at the University of Klagenfurt, including projects, publications, events, lectures, scientific functions and prizes, is available online on the Research Information System (FODOK) page.

Research information system

Karl Popper Kolleg (KPK)

The Karl Popper Kolleg (KPK) is a research and doctoral institute founded by the University of Klagenfurt in 2015. The links between KPK and the University of Klagenfurt enable promising young researchers to collaborate in the long term with international researchers at the very cutting edge of their fields (scientists in residence).

Framework conditions for research

Open access

The University of Klagenfurt offers guidance to staff on how to make their research available through “open access”.

Good academic practice

The University of Klagenfurt has put in place a number of measures to ensure that the principles of good academic practice are observed.

Knowledge transfer

The University of Klagenfurt is a member of the Wissenstransferzentrum Süd (WTZ) knowledge transfer centre. The university has put in place a number of different measures to facilitate knowledge transfer.

Research Ethics

The Institutional Review Board for Research Ethics (ER-AAU) at the University of Klagenfurt examines and issues statements on ethical aspects of planned studies on humans.

Research profile

Networked & Autonomous Systems

Energy Management & Energy Technology

Sustainability

Self-organizing Systems

Visual Culture

Humans in the Digital Age (HDA)

Research information system

Karl Popper Kolleg (KPK)

Framework conditions for research