Research Conclave 2026

Thursday, 05.03.2026, 13:30-17:00
1030, Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1,
Fanny Hensel-Hall

 

KdW2026 working groups: Looking forward – Impulses for the future

On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Research Support Office at the mdw, the Research Conclave 2026 sees itself more than ever as an open forum for interdisciplinary exchange and joint reflection. With this in mind, we would like to draw attention to those topics that will shape scientific and artistic research work at the mdw in the coming years.

Inspired by the approach of future thinking, we propose that, as a scientific community that has achieved extraordinary things in recent years and has developed and expanded in many ways, we think ahead to the future: What challenges and responsibilities arise from issues such as AI, the erosion of democracy and the increasing demands of scientific work? What options for action are there? Which topics will be particularly relevant – and why?

The aim of the discussion is to gain a shared understanding and formulate ideas for future priorities. For the first time, we want to bring together different perspectives from the various career stages and plan the working groups accordingly.

The classification into R1-R4 is based on a model developed by the European Commission, which divides the career stages of researchers at universities and research institutions into four levels in order to improve the comparability of academic careers in an international context.

 

Research Support

Mag.a Therese Kaufmann, MA

Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1
1030 Wien
1. Stock, Raum B 01 23
Tel. +43 1 711 55-6100

forschungsfoerderung@mdw.ac.at

 


Programme

13:00 – 13:30

Arrival, Coffee

Fanny Hensel-Hall & Foyer

13:30 – 13:50

Welcome (Rektorin Ulrike Sych)

Introduction (Therese Kaufmann)

Fanny Hensel-Hall

13:50 – 14:10

PosterCraze: short presentations of current research projects

Fanny Hensel-Hall

14:10 – 14:20

Break

Fanny Hensel-Hall & Foyer

14:20 – 15:40

Working Groups „Looking forward – Impulses for the Future“

WG R1 (Hosts: Vera Djemelinskaia, Abigail Wagner)

WG R2-R3 (Hosts: Isabel Frey, Philipp Hohmann)
WG R3 (Hosts: David M. Weigl, Stephanie Probst)

WG R4/1 (Hosts: Rosa Reitsamer, Alex Hofmann)

WG R4/2 (Hosts: Melanie Unseld, Markus Grassl)

WG Administration (Hosts: Julia Kordina, Hanna Brinkmann)

 

 

Fanny Hensel-Hall

ub Group Rooms:  R 0101 & S 0131

Meeting Hall of the Senate L 01 23

ZfW-Rooms: Small Seminar Room S 02 32 & 
spiel macht raum S 02 25

15:40 – 16:00

Break

Fanny Hensel-Saal & Foyer

16:00 – 16:30

Plenary discussion

Fanny Hensel-Saal

16:30 – 17:00

Get Together

Fanny Hensel-Saal & Foyer

 

Die „KdW“ hat sich als instituts- und disziplinenübergreifende Veranstaltung zu einem Fixpunkt für die Forschenden an der mdw entwickelt. Sie bietet Gelegenheit zur Vernetzung und dient der Sichtbarmachung laufender Forschungsprojekte an der mdw im Rahmen des PosterCraze.

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