Welcome to the 10th Vienna Ball of Sciences on 25 January 2025! Regular and discount tickets are all sold out. The last, slim possibility to secure tickets is to book one of the last remaining tables in our webshop:
The messages from our ball ambassadors and the program are continuously updated in the blog. Do you want to stay up to date, be informed about raffles and receive invitations to side events? Then simply register following this link for our newsletter.
The answers to the most important questions about the ball can be found in our FAQs
Looking back in joy: The best pictures of the 2024 ball and the video of the ball night!
See what the media and our guests say about the ball:
“We’re about diversity, openness and excellence.”
New York Times, 6 February 2018
“Vienna’s brightest ball”
Falter, 30 January 2019
“красивого та чарівного заходу” (A beautiful and magical event)
Mariia Mykhailova (Ukrainian Science Diaspora), 29 January 2024
“Fulbright Austria program participants from past and present enjoyed the Ball of Sciences tremendously! (These) moments in time create memories that will last a lifetime.”
Mitch Sims, Alumni Relations Manager, 27 January 2020
“One of Vienna’s highlights during the waltzing season, combining entertainment with an academic attitude.”
Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (Vienna Bio Center), 29 January 2019
“This ball illustrates in a singularly Viennese fashion that Vienna has become the focal point of science in Central Europe“
Eric Kandel, Nobel laureate 2000 and guest of honor 2016
„What would Vienna be without its balls? Definitely not Vienna. Good that there is the science ball.“
Anton Zeilinger, Ball ambassador 2015 and Nobel laureate 2022
“The Science Ball is a gas, it brings the mad crowd of researchers, creativos, innovators and future-shapers together and inspires us all!”
Ce-M-M Research Center for Molecular Medicine (Vienna), 29 January 2019
“You can’t have a book about Vienna without mentioning the best ball in Vienna: the Science Ball”
Tova Marr, Author of “Melange a Trois: A Vienna Love Story”
“The balls (…) are elegant, tacky, rarified, intimidating, democratic, elite, ironic, gorgeous, decadent, tiresome, astonishing; they are both political and apolitical, accessible and inaccessible, international and decidedly Viennese.”
Writer Jessi Jezewska Stevens on the ball season in Vienna and the Science Ball