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Welcome to VISTA
We make cutting-edge research accessible.
VISTA Science Experiences – Science education programs and exhibitions by the Institute of Science and Technology Austria. We foster the passion for research and promote interactions between Science and Society.
science TukTuk
science for all
The VISTA TukTuk takes Science to the park, to the lokal Heurigen and to the public pool. Find out about TukTuk stops near you.
More about TukTuk events
Art & Science at ISTA
Artist Residency
What happens when two creative processes like science and art come together? Our first artist residency closes with an exhibition.
More about the residency
VISTA Science Experience Center
Space for more
The ISTA Campus continues to develop: we create space for exchange between research and society.
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The VISTA Mission

Understanding how Science creates knowledge.

If you want to make good decisions, you need to be able to find, sort and evaluate information. That’s what science is all about and how science has been creating solid knowledge for centuries.

VISTA promotes the understanding of science as a process and makes cutting-edge research accessible – to everyone.

More on our mission
meet a scientist
meet a scientist
  • kids
  • teenagers
  • school classes
  • teachers

VISTA Science Christmas Show

21st
Dec
09:00 / 11:00
online
winter, wonder, science.
How do sparklers actually work? Can a candle be blown out from 20 meters distance? Why do fireworks burst in different colors?
Watch the livestream with your class as we set off a spectacular experiment show.
meet a scientist
meet a scientist
  • kids
  • teenagers
  • school classes
  • teachers

VISTA Science Christmas Show

21st
Dec
09:00 / 11:00
online
winter, wonder, science.
How do sparklers actually work? Can a candle be blown out from 20 meters distance? Why do fireworks burst in different colors?
Watch the livestream with your class as we set off a spectacular experiment show.
Experience Science
All Events
meet a scientist
  • kids
  • teenagers
  • school classes

Zoom a Scientist

flexible
flexible
online
©Anna Stöcher
school workshop
  • teenagers
  • school classes
  • 13-19 years

Fakehunter

flexible
flexible
VISTA Science Experience Lab
©Anna Stöcher
workshop
Booked out
  • kids
  • teenagers
  • family-friendly
  • 9-12 years

Tinkering

16./23./ 30. Nov
15:00-18:00
VISTA Science Experience Lab
©Anna Stöcher
workshop
Booked out
  • kids
  • teenagers
  • family-friendly
  • 8-14 years

Learn to program computer games with Scratch

27./04.
Nov/Dec
15:00-18:00
VISTA Science Experience Lab
©Peter Rigaud
continuing education
  • teachers

#STEMLooksLikeMe - Inspiring students interest in STEM

28.
Nov
16:30 -17:30
online
©Anna Stöcher
school workshop
  • teenagers
  • school classes
  • 13-19 years

Fakehunter

flexible
flexible
VISTA Science Experience Lab
©Magic Lemur Productions
school workshop
Booked out
  • kids
  • teenagers
  • school classes
  • 8-14 years

ISTA Campus Tour & Lab Experience

4.
Dec
10:00-12:00
VISTA Science Experience Lab
©Lara Schwarz
school workshop
  • teenagers
  • school classes
  • 14-19 years

Grow Trails

5.
Dez
10:00-12:00
VISTA Science Experience Lab
©Peter Rigaud
school workshop
  • teenagers
  • school classes
  • 14-19 years

#STEMLooksLikeMe

6.
Dec
10:00-12:00
VISTA Science Experience Lab
©Anna Stöcher
workshop
Booked out
  • teenagers
  • 13-19 years

Fakehunter

7.
Dec
16:00-18:00
VISTA Science Experience Lab
Experience Science
All Events
meet a scientist
meet a scientist
  • kids
  • teenagers
  • school classes

Zoom a Scientist

flexible
flexible
online
Meet scientists online. Learn how research really works.
Get answers to your questions!
©Anna Stöcher
school workshop
school workshop
  • teenagers
  • school classes
  • 13-19 years

Fakehunter

flexible
flexible
VISTA Science Experience Lab
This workshop aims to teach young people critical thinking skills when using social media. This workshop is going to be held in German.
©Anna Stöcher
workshop
Booked out
workshop
Booked out
  • kids
  • teenagers
  • family-friendly
  • 9-12 years

Tinkering

16./23./ 30. Nov
15:00-18:00
VISTA Science Experience Lab
Create innovative projects with everyday materials while playfully exploring physical principles. This workshop will be held in German.
©Anna Stöcher
workshop
Booked out
workshop
Booked out
  • kids
  • teenagers
  • family-friendly
  • 8-14 years

Learn to program computer games with Scratch

27./04.
Nov/Dec
15:00-18:00
VISTA Science Experience Lab
Learn programming with Scratch and create your own version of popular computer games like Pacman or Snake. This workshop will be held in German.
©Peter Rigaud
continuing education
continuing education
  • teachers

#STEMLooksLikeMe - Inspiring students interest in STEM

28.
Nov
16:30 -17:30
online
Help students develop their confidence and interest in STEM careers with this online workshop. For teachers of all levels and types of schools.
©Anna Stöcher
school workshop
school workshop
  • teenagers
  • school classes
  • 13-19 years

Fakehunter

flexible
flexible
VISTA Science Experience Lab
This workshop aims to teach young people critical thinking skills when using social media. This workshop is going to be held in German.
©Magic Lemur Productions
school workshop
Booked out
school workshop
Booked out
  • kids
  • teenagers
  • school classes
  • 8-14 years

ISTA Campus Tour & Lab Experience

4.
Dec
10:00-12:00
VISTA Science Experience Lab
During the campus tour, students can get to know ISTA, visit laboratories and conduct their own experiments in the VISTA Science Experience Lab. This workshop will be held in German.
©Lara Schwarz
school workshop
school workshop
  • teenagers
  • school classes
  • 14-19 years

Grow Trails

5.
Dez
10:00-12:00
VISTA Science Experience Lab
This workshop is a combination of an outdoor trail & a reflection workshop where students learn to reflect on their social media behavior and understand how algorithms define what in see in our newsfeeds on Instagram or TikTok. This workshop will be held in English.
©Peter Rigaud
school workshop
school workshop
  • teenagers
  • school classes
  • 14-19 years

#STEMLooksLikeMe

6.
Dec
10:00-12:00
VISTA Science Experience Lab
#STEMLooksLikeMe is a different kind of career orientation. What are people like in these so-called STEM professions? A workshop that works with somewhat unusual role model portraits and encourages students to imagine themselves in these roles. This workshop will be held in German.
©Anna Stöcher
workshop
Booked out
workshop
Booked out
  • teenagers
  • 13-19 years

Fakehunter

7.
Dec
16:00-18:00
VISTA Science Experience Lab
This workshop aims to teach young people critical thinking skills when using social media. This workshop will be held in German.
A look behind the scenes

Science is a process! Here's what's going on at the ISTA campus:

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Article

Gardening for Science

Mutants are growing in one of the basement rooms of the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA). But instead of monsters, they are small plants that serve as living subjects for science. This is the realm of Dorota Jaworska, the technician at the institute's Plant Facility, who takes care of thousands of small experiments.
Learn more
©ISTA
Game

Virus Alarm in Stayhompton

Explore and understand how viruses spread by re-enacting the spread of a fictional virus in a city.
Start Playing
©Anna Stöcher
Video

Supergscheit! The Crazy Experiments Show

How hot is cold? In the this episode, Bernhard Weingartner asks the super smart question: How hot is cold? Quantum computers like really low temperatures. That's why the temperature in the lab of Andrea Hofmann, a physicist in Klosterneuburg, is as low as -273 degrees Celsius. That's colder than outer space! But why is that?
Interview

"When you look at the sky and the clouds, it broadens your perspective."

The scientists Yi-Ling Hwong and Andrea Stoellner are cloud scientists. In the interview with c/o magazine they talk about their work
The Cloud Scientists
©Mia Meus

VISTA – this is Science Education made by ISTA. The Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) stands for world-class research in the natural sciences. We offer science enthusiasts of all ages the opportunity to experience, discover and understand science.

Get to know us and discover VISTA activities.

Learn more about VISTA
©Anna Stöcher