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About VISTA

VISTA - Science Experiences powered by ISTA

©Anna Stöcher

We make cutting-edge research accessible

VISTA offers science enthusiasts of all ages the opportunity to immerse themselves in contemporary science. Through direct interaction with researchers, the process of doing science becomes tangible, and cutting-edge research becomes accessible. Learn more about the VISTA Mission.

Find our activities e in the VISTA Science Experience Lab on campus in Klosterneuburg, online, in schools, and in parks or the Heuriger around the corner.

 

Currently at VISTA
school workshop
  • grade 2-4
  • school classes
  • 7-10 years

The Big Bone Hunt

WS 24/25
Duration 2 hours
VISTA Science Experience Lab
©Peter Rigaud
school workshop
  • grade 8-13
  • school classes
  • 14-19 years

Learning from role models - a different kind of career guidance

WS 24/25
Duration 2 hours
VISTA Science Experience Lab
©Stephanie Kneissl
school workshop
  • 7-19 years
  • grade 2-14
  • school classes

ISTA Experience

WS 24/25
Duration 2 hours
ISTA Campus
©Stephanie Kneissl
school workshop
  • grade 2-4
  • school classes
  • 7-10 years

Building blocks of life

WS 24/25
Duration 2 hours
VISTA Science Experience Lab
©Anna Stöcher
school workshop
  • grade 8-13
  • school classes
  • 14-19 years

FakeHunter - On the hunt for the truth

WS 24/25
Duration 2 hours
VISTA Science Experience Lab
school workshop
  • grade 9-13
  • school classes
  • 15-19 years

Worm workshop - Research with C. elegans

WS 24/25
Duration 2 hours
VISTA Science Experience Lab
©Anna Stöcher
workshop
Booked out
  • kids
  • teenagers
  • 10-14 years

3D printing: Design and print your 3D model

02./09.
Dec.
16:00-19:00
VISTA Science Experience Lab
  • science for all
  • family-friendly
  • school classes
  • teachers

VISTA Christmas Science Show

19.
Dec
Livestream + ISTA Campus
©Anna Stöcher
workshop
  • kids
  • 8-12 years

Nature Explorer - Behavioral research with invertebrates

8.
Jan.
15:00-17:00
VISTA Science Experience Lab
©Stephanie Kneissl
workshop
  • kids
  • 7-10 years

Campus Tour and Lab Experience

22.
Jan.
16:00-18:00
VISTA Science Experience Lab
Currently at VISTA
school workshop
school workshop
  • grade 2-4
  • school classes
  • 7-10 years

The Big Bone Hunt

WS 24/25
Duration 2 hours
VISTA Science Experience Lab
©Peter Rigaud
school workshop
school workshop
  • grade 8-13
  • school classes
  • 14-19 years

Learning from role models - a different kind of career guidance

WS 24/25
Duration 2 hours
VISTA Science Experience Lab
©Stephanie Kneissl
school workshop
school workshop
  • 7-19 years
  • grade 2-14
  • school classes

ISTA Experience

WS 24/25
Duration 2 hours
ISTA Campus
©Stephanie Kneissl
school workshop
school workshop
  • grade 2-4
  • school classes
  • 7-10 years

Building blocks of life

WS 24/25
Duration 2 hours
VISTA Science Experience Lab
©Anna Stöcher
school workshop
school workshop
  • grade 8-13
  • school classes
  • 14-19 years

FakeHunter - On the hunt for the truth

WS 24/25
Duration 2 hours
VISTA Science Experience Lab
school workshop
school workshop
  • grade 9-13
  • school classes
  • 15-19 years

Worm workshop - Research with C. elegans

WS 24/25
Duration 2 hours
VISTA Science Experience Lab
©Anna Stöcher
workshop
Booked out
workshop
Booked out
  • kids
  • teenagers
  • 10-14 years

3D printing: Design and print your 3D model

02./09.
Dec.
16:00-19:00
VISTA Science Experience Lab
  • science for all
  • family-friendly
  • school classes
  • teachers

VISTA Christmas Science Show

19.
Dec
Livestream + ISTA Campus
©Anna Stöcher
workshop
workshop
  • kids
  • 8-12 years

Nature Explorer - Behavioral research with invertebrates

8.
Jan.
15:00-17:00
VISTA Science Experience Lab
©Stephanie Kneissl
workshop
workshop
  • kids
  • 7-10 years

Campus Tour and Lab Experience

22.
Jan.
16:00-18:00
VISTA Science Experience Lab

The VISTA Science Experience Lab

The VISTA Science Experience Lab in Klosterneuburg is our base at the ISTA campus. Right next to the world-class researchers working at ISTA, you can experience hands-on science and step into the world of research by joining our many programs.

Visitor information

The VISTA Science Education Team

Interview with Christian Bertsch and Mia Meus

Even 100 years ago, John Dewey complained that science was being taught too much as a collection of facts and not as a living process that creates and constantly transforms new knowledge. In this interview, VISTA Head of Science Education Christian Bertsch and curator Mia Meus explain why this statement is still true today, how it is possible to explain complicated things simply to laypeople and why art is quite suitable for this.

The VISTA Science Education Team

The VISTA team develops, pilots, and runs a whole range of activities, building bridges between science and society.

Magdalena Steinrück

Develops activities for the next generation of scientists

Nadine Mund

Develops and facilitates programs that focus on the process of science and build trust in science

Mia Meus

Curator, Designer + Creative Technologist

Alice Laciny

Develops and mediates between school and science

Georg Bauer

Keeps our activities running as an organizational talent and combines creativity with science education with his enthusiasm for improv theater and puppetry.

Christian Bertsch

Leads the team, does research on understanding science and talks about it a lot - in the lecture hall or on the science slam stage

Magdalena Bauer

Passionate science communicator and good-humored all-rounder with a special commitment to target groups that are sometimes forgotten

Livia Willner

invaluable all-round support for the whole team, mediator, and full-time technology student

Laura Sartori

As an educational scientist, she brings creative approaches to the development and realization of science education projects.

Lisa-Maria Hanghofer

outdoor-loving explorer who, in addition to designing workshops for VISTA, also teaches at an inclusive middle school

Stefanie Santer

takes care of the digital VISTA content on social media and website

Stephanie Kneissl

Florian Semlitsch

Judita Huber

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Gaia Novarino

Vice President for Science Education

Gaia Novarino is a professor at ISTA of neuroscience. Her research group investigates the genetic basis of brain development in health and disease. The learning capacity of the human brain has always fascinated her. In her role as Vice President for Science Education, she combines this interest with her mission to inspire young people's enthusiasm for Science.