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Institute for Spatial and Social-Ecological Transformations (ISSET)RSS

ISSET is an interdisciplinary institute at the Department of Socioeconomics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business that unites research from socioeconomics, geography, political ecology, and planning focusing on the contours, challenges, multiple causes, and consequences of past, current, and future spatial and social-ecological transformations. In cooperation with the International Karl Polanyi Society, it aims at contributing to an interdisciplinary social science of economics by linking economics and other social sciences.

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Franz Tödtling passed away

We were deeply saddened to learn that our longtime colleague Franz Tödtling passed away unexpectedly on October 6, 2026. Franz began his career at WU back in the 1970s at the Interdisciplinary…

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Open Call for Bachelor's Thesis Supervision – 5 Projects Available!

How deep is our carbon lock-in? Can we break free from our dependence on fossil fuels? What are the economic and social vulnerabilities involved?

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Ausschreibung für Bachelorarbeiten zu Wohngemeinschaften (WGs)

Wir suchen Studierende, die ihre Bachelorarbeit zum Thema Wohngemeinschaften schreiben möchten!