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Acronym: 
BOKU
Phone number: 
(+43-1) 47654-0

Location

Gregor-Mendel-Straße 33
1180 Vienna
Austria
AT
Working languages: 
English
German

The University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, or simply BOKU (derived from its German name, Universität für Bodenkultur Wien), founded by the Austrian Empire in 1872, is an education and research centre for renewable resources in Vienna. BOKU combines fundamental and applied expertise in the fields of natural sciences, engineering and biotechnology as well as social and economic sciences to enhance the knowledge basis for sustainable management of natural resources. It is a member of the Euroleague for Life Sciences (ELLS) university network. There are currently around 13,000 students from over 100 countries enrolled at BOKU.


 


Source: Wikipedia (d.d. November 10th 2017)