Vienna Children's University

The Faculty of Physics participates in the Vienna Children’s University every year. More than 20 faculty members work together to organise three to six fascinating lectures and hands-on workshops for a couple hundred children aged 7 to 12. Some examples:

"What's Ötzi doing in the accelerator facility?" - Motivated by a quiz and invigorated by sausages and drinks, the young scientists discover that Ötzi's age was determined by radicarbon dating.

"Fun with physics" is a workshop in which pupils participate in amazing experiments of light and colour, lowest temperatures, rotating systems and vacuum physics, rocket engines or submarine diving.

"From the Big Bang to the Future of the Universe" - 13.7 billion years of history in 50 minutes and some thought experiments on what the future of the universe might be.

"What is the world made of and what keeps it together?" - particle physics for children and exclusive background information about black holes generated in experiments at CERN.

"How big is a quantum and what exactly is a quantum springboard?" - These and other tiny things are explained to children by scientists from the quantum group.

Contact person: Clemens Nagel