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Lighthouse Wien

Lighthouse Wien is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Lighthouse Wien rather than just read about it. In short: Lighthouse Wien is a non-profit homeless shelter in Vienna, Austria, founded in 2000. It is a housing project for homeless persons with substance dependency, HIV/AIDS, hepatitis and/or psychiatric disorders.

Key takeaways

Lighthouse Wien belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Lighthouse Wien to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Lighthouse Wien from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Lighthouse Wien is a non-profit homeless shelter in Vienna, Austria, founded in 2000. It is a housing project for homeless persons with substance dependency, HIV/AIDS, hepatitis and/or psychiatric disorders.

Foundation The project is based on an idea of Bernhard Durst in the 1990s, supported by television host Günter Tolar, Vienna's AIDS pastor Clemens Kriz OSsT and a committee of prominent representatives of Austria's civil society. After Lighthouse projects were already realised in Hamburg, Basel and Zürich, Vienna should also get a housing project for people with HIV and AIDS. As he died from AIDS in March 1995, Durst could not witness the realization of his dream. The foundation of the first apartment for four inhabitants succeeded in March 2000 in Vienna’s Löwengasse, then named Dach überm Kopf. It was carried out by Friederike Baca, Christian Michelides, Herbert Rausch and the self-help organization Menschen und Aids, and it was supported by Burgl Helbich-Poschacher from the Order of the Maltese.

The main building of the project in Dampfschiffstrasse 8, a five story residential building in the centre of Vienna, was rented in May 2001 and was for the first three years run in cooperation with Ute Bock, who then gave shelter to asylum seekers. The building was then restored according to the needs of the inhabitants. The first apartment, as well as the main Lighthouse building and the additional apartments in the neighbourhood were consecrated by cardinal Christoph Schönborn. A chapel of the Diocese of Vienna was installed in February 2006. As of 2025, Lighthouse currently offers shelter and care to 62 persons.

Association Founded in 2003, the Lighthouse association is chaired by a voluntary board of three members. The project is not subsidized. The director of the association since its foundation is psychotherapist Christian Michelides. He heads a multiprofessional team consisting of drug counselors, life coaches and psychotherapists, a mediator, a general practitioner, a social worker and a nurse, as well as workers and cleaners, civilian servants and internships. Lighthouse took part in formulating the requests of the community on the occasion of the XVIII International AIDS Conference, 2010 in Vienna. The organisation received the national qualification Österreichisches Spendengütesiegel on 8 July 2015.

Awards Finalist of the World Habitat Award 2006

References

External links Official website (in German) Lighthouse (in German) Plattform Drogentherapien

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Lighthouse Wien

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Lighthouse Wien claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Lighthouse Wien before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Lighthouse Wien ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Lighthouse Wien

In research: Lighthouse Wien appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Lighthouse Wien in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Lighthouse Wien is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Charities based in Austria, Community organizations, Drugs in Austria, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Lighthouse Wien outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Lighthouse Wien in 20 minutes

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Frequently asked questions

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Why does Lighthouse Wien matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Lighthouse Wien?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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