The 2025 Ball Magazine is online: 66 pages with background information, reports, interviews and memories of the first 10 years of the Vienna Ball of Sciences. Have fun and enjoy!

The Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen was directly involved in the founding of the Vienna Science Ball. As the University Commissioner of the City of Vienna, he supported the establishment of the event in 2014 together with Mayor Michael Häupl and City Councillor for Science Andreas Maillath-Pokorny. The first ball was held in the City Hall in 2015. Then as now, the motto is: “Fun with decency – dance with attitude”. Here is his ball message (in German) for the 2025 anniversary ball:

A rapper who lives between “street filth and Beverly Hills”. With sharp lines, social criticism and an unagitated style, Donna Savage is conquering the German rap scene: she studies, lives art and asks herself questions that others would rather not ask. In her sound, anger meets reflection – and opens up space for change. This will be the case at #SciBall25 at 1:00 a.m. when she performs at the disco. Continue reading Clear the Stage for Donna Savage →