Want to gain exciting insights into the world of the United Nations in Vienna? A virtual edition of the Shadowing Programme will take place from 24 October to 24 November 2026. It will offer students the opportunity to have a one-hour virtual encounter with a UN staff member and join a virtual career workshop.
More than 180 students engaged in deliberations on pressing topics of the future at the VICMUN 2026. The participants came together from several countries and universities for a five-day Model United Nations simulation conference.
Watch the powerful testimony of Setsuko Thurlow who was just 13 years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on her home city of Hiroshima. As a hibakusha, she has dedicated many years of her life to campaigning for peace and nuclear disarmament. It’s simply our responsibility to keep this beautiful world, she says.
Criminal networks are moving faster, reaching further and blurring the lines between threats. Into this shifting landscape steps Monica Juma, taking on one of the UN’s most demanding security and justice portfolios.
The Vienna International Centre is home to a number of kestrels who are currently hatching their eggs in small nests high up on our towers. This is the livefeed from one of the rooftop nests.
How does the United Nations impact our daily life? The global exhibition Shared Lives, Shared Future, organized to mark the 80th anniversary of the organization, showcases more than 250 stories from around the world highlighting how the UN is part of our lives in ways one might not expect.
Scientists, presenters and staff at the UN in Vienna were delighted by the tremendous interest in the work of the United Nations: from technologies for detecting nuclear tests to global migration, non-proliferation of nuclear weapons and hands-on experiments, there was plenty to discover for people of all ages. See the photos / Watch the video
The United Nations Information Service (UNIS) Vienna together with colleagues from the Human Resources Management Service of the United Nations Office at Vienna (UNOV)/United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the Global Compact Network Austria, joined the Long Night of Companies. The event offered students and recent graduates a unique chance to visit different companies and institutions to learn more about what they do and potential career paths.
Laurent Ziegler, artist and human trafficking survivor, thinks it's important to know that survivors often don't come from faraway countries but can experience trafficking here in Austria and Germany. Laurent is a member of the UNODC Voices of Resilience Global Forum for Human Trafficking Survivors that provides an empowering space for survivors to share their perspectives.
Eighty-one years after the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp on 27 January 1945, there are only a few people left who can talk about what happened during the Holocaust. Dirk Peter Adler is one of them.
