5. November 2025

Together with its partner FH St. Pölten, the IFZ has published a new guide entitled “Logistics in Figures,” which shows how urban logistics systems can be planned and managed in the future based on solid data.

16. October 2025

The LOGI-TOOLKIT research project was successfully completed in March 2025. The project, which was supported by the BMK as part of the FFG funding line “Mobilität der Zukunft” developed a practical tool for planning urban logistics at the neighborhood level.

7. October 2025

IFZ is coordinating the Horizon Europe R-evolve project, which aims to provide the EU furniture industry with systematic and comprehensive support to accelerate its transition towards a circular economy.

1. October 2025

The PLANET4B project recognised biodiversity loss which intersects with urban inequality as a critical leverage point for the Graz case study. While the city hosts meanwhile almost 40 community gardens, access to green space and healthy food remains uneven. Migrant women, single mothers, and elderly women living alone often face barriers — physical, linguistic, and symbolic — that prevent them from participating in urban greening initiatives. Without deliberate inclusion, such projects risk reinforcing social exclusion and contributing to green gentrification. Could biodiversity initiatives be reimagined to centre social justice, lived experience, and community agency? Could gardens become spaces not just for ecological restoration, but for collective transformation?

25. June 2025

As part of the proCURE project, the IFZ – together with project partners from Germany, Italy, and Slovenia – developed a practical handbook designed to support municipal procurement officers in purchasing more sustainable products and services. The aim was to provide especially small municipalities with concrete and actionable guidance.

24. June 2025

IFZ researchers are currently working on several projects to incorporate gender, diversity, and intersectionality into a wide range of topics in science, sustainability, and technology research. Findings are published on an ongoing basis and presented at conferences.

16. April 2025

The fourth annual event of the PostDoc Office at the University of Graz on April 16, 2025, focused on the importance of academic kindness. Over 80 participants and ten international speakers discussed leadership, collegiality, and academic culture.

15. April 2025

The 23rd STS Conference Graz will take place from May 5–7, 2025 at Hotel Weitzer in Graz, Austria, and will be held as a hybrid event. The conference is jointly organized by the STS Unit of Graz University of Technology and the IFZ.

14 January 2025

LOGI-TOOLKIT, our project to develop a prototype for interactive logistics planning at neighborhood level, was successfully completed at the end of 2024.

14. November 2024

From September 25 to 26, 2024, the final conference of the Horizon 2020 project European Forum for Urban Agriculture(EFUA) took place in the Belgian capital Brussels. The conference, which brought together international players and experts in the field of urban agriculture, was also attended by David Steinwender and representatives of the Forum Urbanes Gärtnern association and the City of Graz.

12. November 2024

About a year ago an Austrian TV presenter translated skier Mikaela Shiffrin's statement “I am kind of in an unfortunate time of my monthly cycle” into German as follows: “I don't even get to cycle, which I do every month. I'm just too tired.”? What must have made many of us smile at the time also triggered a wave of interest and shared experiences of female athletes and their performance during the menstrual cycle.