Ready for the Future: Understanding the Long-Term Resilience of Human Culture
(RES-HUM)

The project is focused on clarifying the basic principles of resilience of human society in a historical perspective using long time series, and on the transfer of acquired knowledge into social practice.

This goal will be achieved by supporting excellent research and developing cooperation between the humanities and natural sciences, such as archaeology, art history, anthropology, genetics, geology, climatology, botany, geophysics and nuclear physics.

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28 Mar

Invitation to the roundtable 7-8 April 2025

We are pleased to invite you to take part in the two-day roundtable "The Two Cultures: Natural Sciences and Humanities, Convergent Paths?", to be held on April 7–8, 2025.

3 Mar

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15 Jan

MU scientists coordinated genetic study of Avar burials

The surprising result of the investigation, that the individuals from Leobersdorf were mostly of East Asian origin, while those buried in Mödling had predominantly European ancestry, was published in the prestigious journal Nature.

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