We are committed to fostering a culture of sustainability that extends beyond technological innovations and encompasses the well-being of our planet, our community, and future generations. Our mission is to integrate sustainability principles into every aspect of our academic and operational endeavors, ensuring that our faculty not only pledges, but pushes environmental responsibility and social consciousness.

Awareness

We’re reducing our environmental footprint by minimizing energy consumption, optimizing resource usage, and promoting eco-friendly practices in our labs, classrooms, and offices. Through research and innovation, we will contribute to sustainable solutions for global challenges such as climate change and resource scarcity.

Education

We are educating our students, faculty members, and staff on the importance of sustainability and its relevance to informatics. Our curricula incorporate sustainability-related issues, enabling our graduates to be not only technically proficient but also environmentally responsible leaders of tomorrow. In 2023, we host the lecture series Sustainability in Computer Science, the first of its kind in Austria – bringing experts from all Austrian CS departments together under the auspices of Informatik Austria.

Research for Sustainable Solutions

We actively engage in research projects that address sustainability challenges. Our faculty collaborates within the field and beyond to develop innovative solutions for renewable energy, conservation, waste reduction, and more. In 2023, the working group “AG Sustainability” was founded to consolidate existing research endeavors at TU Wien Informatics and provide a platform for further synergies.

Computer Science (CS), and more prominently and recently, Artificial Intelligence (AI), is hailed as the solution to many sustainability problems (and yes, it is!). Still, energy efficiency and CO2 reduction must be considered to ensure fair and ecological use of resources. Hence, dealing with informatics and sustainability involves two faces of the same coin: Sustainability with CS, often referred to as “Computational Sustainability”, and Sustainability for CS, commonly known as “Sustainable CS”.

The Sustainability in Computer Science lecture series is the first of its kind in Austria, with all Austrian Informatics departments and faculties participating, under the auspices of Informatik Austria.

We want to raise awareness for the utmost importance of sustainability in CS, demonstrating research solutions to various problems, and triggering developments for a sustainable future.

• Sustainable Security
  by Daniel Gruss, TU Graz
• Carbon Footprint of Social Media
  by Andreas Uhl, PLUS
• AI and Optimization for Sustainable Applications
  by Nysret Musliu, TU Wien Informatics
• Green HPC: Paving the Way for Sustainable Supercomputing
  by Philipp Gschwandtner, Universität Innsbruck
• Building Intelligent and Sustainable Internet-based Ecosystems
  by Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien Informatics
• Sustainable Blockchains
  by Krzysztof Pietrzak, ISTA
• Computational Sustainability
  by Ivona Brandic, TU Wien Informatics
• Sustainability in Explainable AI
  by Moritz Grosse-Wentrup, Universität Wien
• Electric Load Disaggregation
  by Wilfried Elmenreich, Universität Klagenfurt
• Computer Science Between Energy Savings and Waste
  by René Mayrhofer, JKU Linz
• More Supercomputing with Less Energy
  by Dieter Kranzlmüller, Leibniz Rechenzentrum München
• Harnessing Untapped Potentials in the Internet of Things
  by Kaspar Lebloch, Universität Wien
• Sustainability in Software Engineering
  by Franz Wotawa, TU Graz