the VINCA founders
VINCA is a private research institute, founded in February 2004 by former members of the Institute of Ecology and Conservation Biology of the University of Vienna. In 2014, the non-profit association “Verein für Naturschutzforschung” took over ownership of VINCA.
VINCA covers the whole field of organismic ecology and conservation biology. In addition to scientific research, VINCA provides services in statistical analysis, GIS based modelling and ecoinformatics. The scientists working at VINCA have expertise in vegetation ecology and biodiversity research in particular, but also in the analysis of statistical and spatial data. Over the past few years, the VINCA team have managed various research projects funded by the Austrian Academy of Science, the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), the City of Vienna, the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Culture and the European Union Biodiversity financing program (NextGenerationEU, Biodiversitätsfond).