International students walking through a modern Vienna campus

BORN IN VIENNA. BUILT FOR THE WORLD.

HIGH SCHOOL.
REIMAGINED.

Complete your upper-secondary education in three focused years through Education, Experience and Execution—with a clear pathway to the Austrian Matura.

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01The Idea

What if students
redesigned high
school from
scratch?

A bottom-up model of education.

The people who benefit most from education should have a meaningful role in shaping it. At VIENNEXUS, adults provide expertise, academic standards and guidance. Students take responsibility, make decisions and help build the Academy.

This is not a simulation of leadership. It is leadership in practice.

02The 3E Model

THE 3E MODEL.
Your path to excellence.

Education builds knowledge. Experience expands perspective. Execution turns potential into reality. Together, they develop individual excellence.

01
Education

Build knowledge.

Academic depth, human community and AI-supported learning—with the Austrian Matura as the academic goal.

Big ideasMultiple representationsTools & frameworksMentors
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02
Experience

Gain perspective.

Explore industries, organisations, people and cultures through up to ten professional experiences.

DoingTeamsReal-time feedback
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03
Execution

Create value.

Take responsibility, build real projects and help shape VIENNEXUS itself.

Human valuesPositive incentivesAssessment
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03Education

EDUCATION.
Learn with depth.

Rigorous academic preparation with human guidance, intelligent technology and a strong peer community.

Community-focusedAI-supportedGlobally connected
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Students collaborating in a professional environment
04Experience

EXPERIENCE.
Learn from reality.

10INTERNSHIPS & JOBSwith leading brands and companies across industries

One full trimester each year is dedicated to experience beyond school. Students work with real teams and learn what contribution actually feels like.

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05Execution

EXECUTION.
Own your journey.

Potential does not start at 25.

Students do not simply attend VIENNEXUS. From communication and community to technology, partnerships and projects, they take responsibility for real outcomes.

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06The Vienna Idea

ONCE, IDEAS TRAVELLED
FROM VIENNA
INTO THE WORLD.

Vienna brought together people, cultures and disciplines whose ideas helped shape modern life.

VIENNEXUS brings a new generation of global citizens together—to reignite that spirit and shape what comes next.

ROOTED IN VIENNA.
DESIGNED FOR THE WORLD.

A new generation exchanging ideas in a contemporary Viennese salon
07Vienna Minds

A CITY
OF IDEAS.

For centuries, Vienna attracted people whose ideas changed how the world thinks, creates and lives.

This is not nostalgia. VIENNEXUS translates that intellectual courage into the capabilities the world needs now—and gives the next generation room to lead.

VIENNA HERITAGE · NEW THINKING · NEW LEADERSHIP
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Portrait of Austrian architect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky05
Architecture & design

Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky

Redesigned everyday life through functional, human-centred architecture.

Werner Faymann · CC BY-SA 2.0
Portrait of Vienna-born management thinker Peter Drucker06
Management & leadership

Peter Drucker

Helped define modern management as responsibility, practice and human contribution.

Jeff McNeill · CC BY-SA 2.0
?THE NEXT IDEA
HAS NOT
HAPPENED YET.
The next idea

Who comes next?

The next idea that changes the world has not happened yet. VIENNEXUS exists to help young people create it.

08The Network

ONE ACADEMY.
MANY CITIES.

A school for global citizens.

Imagine studying in Vienna, living with a local family in Tokyo and joining a VIENNEXUS cohort in Dubai—all while continuing the same academic programme.

Our long-term vision is to enable 1–3 trimesters abroad within the VIENNEXUS community. Not an additional exchange year. A global community to live, learn and grow in.

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3YEARS

One academic journey

1–3TRIMESTERS

Abroad within the community

ONECOMMUNITY

Connected across the world

FOUNDING LOCATIONVienna
FUTURE VISIONDubai
FUTURE VISIONSan Francisco
FUTURE VISIONNew York
FUTURE VISIONLondon
FUTURE VISIONBarcelona
FUTURE VISIONTokyo
FUTURE VISIONSeoul
FUTURE VISIONSydney
FUTURE VISIONToronto
STARTING IN VIENNA. DESIGNED FOR THE WORLD.

International mobility will develop as future cohorts and hosting partnerships are established.

09Companies & Community

EDUCATION DOES NOT END
AT THE SCHOOL DOOR.

Companies become part of the learning environment by opening real challenges, people, industries and working environments to students.

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10Founding Cohort

BUILD THE
FIRST CHAPTER.

The first VIENNEXUS cohort will not simply join an established institution. They will help shape what VIENNEXUS becomes.

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THIS IS NOT FOR EVERYONE.

It may be
for you.

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