Vienna Summit 2025

Contribution by IAAC and WU

Join us for the Vienna Summit on Thursday 26th June 2025 at the WU Campus.

Learn more about the Urban Shift Project and the experience from working on an Alliance for Innovation Porject. Find out more about the start-up ideas developed and how students have taken the skills they learnt and applied them to their careers.

Agenda
9:00 Arrival and Prototype Exhibition
10:00 Urban Shift Project Overview
Adam Greene and Marie-Sophie Attems (WU)
10:30 Student Start-up Presentation
Loic Bickert (WU student)
11:00 Urban Shift Trainer Perspective
Fiona Demeur (IAAC)
11:15 Coffee Break
11:30 Panel Discussion: Sustainable Entrepreneurship as a Challenge-based Learning Tool for Transdisciplinary Groups
Moderator: Adam Greene
Participants: Martin Petersen (PUD), Rudolf Kottbauer (WIFI), Kristina Coric (HdM), Michael Ambros (BOKU:BASE), Niklas Schulte (WU student)
12:15 Networking and Lunch

Vienna Summit Reflection

The Vienna Summit showcased the start-ups developed in both Batch 1 and Batch 2. This took place during the closing meeting of Urban Shift at the WU Campus. The partners believed in was important to bring all the start-ups together in one event and celebrate the work achieved while promoting the project within one final event.  

Project partners actively participated in the event, organised by WU, with guests from other universities and our Green Deal Ambassadors attending to support and listen. The dynamic format allowed for participants to check out the start-up ideas, network and listen to the inputs. As the project draws to a close, it was a great way to reflect and share insights from different perspectives that have accumulated over the three years.