The Vienna University of Technology (TU Vienna) is located in the heart of Europe, in a cosmopolitan city of great cultural diversity. For nearly 200 years, the TU Vienna has been a place of research, teaching and learning in the service of progress. The TU Vienna is among the most successful technical universities in Europe and is - with 3.000 scientists, 25.000 students an 280 million Euro turnover - Austria’s largest scientific-technical research and educational instit6ution.