The University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Alma Mater Viridis, sees itself as an education and research centre for renewable resources, which are a prerequisite for human life. Task of BOKU to contribute significantly to future generations by the diversity of disciplines to secure this livelihood. By combining science, engineering and economics, attempts to increase the knowledge of an ecologically and economically sustainable use of natural resources in a cultivated landscape. Important features of the research at BOKU are anticipatory detection of problems and the effort to practical relevance, internationality and interdisciplinary. The interdisciplinary cooperation of scientists at the international level should lead to the widest possible problems and creative problem solving. Teaching at the BOKU is designed holistic and coordinated; it helps the graduates to knowledge, understanding and flexibility. From these reflect the willingness to face up to future challenges, and the ability to deal with them in a competent manner. be Carried by the momentum of research and a high degree of practical relevance with modern teaching methods contemporary fabric content and current remuneration conveys. Students and graduates are motivated to own ideas. A cosmopolitan academic-vocational and further training that enables them to detect even complex interdisciplinary problems. (Source: the university website)