Operations

• Nikolaus Hautsch, Vice Rector for Infrastructure, Chair of the Steering Committee
• Ulf Busch, Head of IT Services
• Alexander Hammer, Head of Finance and Controlling (Treasury)
• Bernd Stampfl, Head of Facility and Resources Management
• Christina Winter, Head of Human Resources and Gender Equality
• Nikola Winter, Delegate from the Advisory Board, Max Perutz Labs
• Nils Carqueville, Delegate from the Advisory Board, Professor for Mathematical Physics
• Julia Gram, Sustainability Office
• Flora Rainalter, Sustainability Office
• Christine Ehrenhuber, Communication on Climate, Environment & Sustainability 

The advisory board consists of members of the University of Vienna and is broadly and diversely composed. Members include representatives of the faculties and centers, the senate, the scientific and general works council, and the ÖH (Austrian National Union of Students) at the University of Vienna. Representatives of DLEs and other students also participate. The members act as multipliers, bringing the concept of sustainability and information about related activities at the University of Vienna into their respective organizational units. Conversely, they bring good practices, ideas, and questions from their organizational units to the Advisory Board.

• Mobility Working Group
  This working group focuses on reducing mobility-related greenhouse gas emissions at the University of Vienna. A distinction is made between university travel and commuting. Proposed measures are being developed for both areas.
   
• Food and Beverages Working Group
  This working group identifies issues relevant to the University of Vienna in the area of catering and develops proposals for measures to ensure a sustainable food offering. It also aims to promote communication about existing sustainable offerings.
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• SAIL Working Group – Sustainable Action In Labs
  This working group is dedicated to collecting laboratory-specific greenhouse gas data and developing corresponding strategies and measures to reduce these emissions. On the other hand, it aims to promote networking between laboratory facilities within the university in order to achieve synergies (e.g. in procurement and/or recycling).
   
• Compensation Working Group
  This working group developed a compensation strategy for the University of Vienna, taking into account the Roadmap 2030 and possible further developments. It did the groundwork for the university's compensation projects, which will be managed by a permanent position in the Sustainability Office starting in 2026.
   
• Strategy Working Group (inactive)
  This working group focused on the further development of the sustainability strategy and a participatory development process. In addition, ways to anchor sustainability in the organizational structures in the long term and a monitoring concept were developed.
   
• Teaching Working Group (Sustainability in Teaching)
  This working group is dedicated to developing proposals for measures and concepts for embedding sustainability in studies and teaching, particularly in the area of teacher training. Offers for deepening the topic of sustainability among University of Vienna staff are also to be developed.
   
• Biodiversity Working Group (inactive)
  This working group examined the importance of biodiversity in the context of the University of Vienna and identified best practice examples.
   
• Communication Working Group (inactive)
  The aim of this working group was to promote internal and external networking and visibility on the topic of sustainability.