in Austria for my PhD showed me new perspectives and I now look differently at scientific problems. During my time in Vienna I started to understand difficult issues in my field of research and I figured out some possible solutions. Due to the fruitful exchange with my colleagues I began to firmly believe that scientific collaborations are vital for progress in science and for the uplift of society [...] Republic, Hungary) CEEPUS HERAS Scholarship Programme Cooperation Development Research Project support within ASEA-Uninet Project support within the Eurasia-Pacific Uninet Project Funding Taiwan-Austria Scientific & Technological Cooperation (S&T Cooperation) Science Cooperation offices Cooperation projects in Erasmus+ Mobility projects in Erasmus+ Centres for Austrian Studies The OeAD submenu What we do [...] society. The experiences made during my scholarship were really life changing for me. They fuelled my scientific improvement as well as my personal growth and development. I think it is very important that scholarship holders, after finishing their studies abroad, fulfil their moral, ethical or legal agreements to go back to their home country and serve society. It is very essential not only for them but
Roorkee, India. My cooperation with Austria started with a call within the Scientific and Scientific & Technological Cooperation (S&T Cooperation) - WTZ scheme for a research proposal between India and Austria for which I applied in the area of Bioenergy with the Austrian counterpart at BOKU, Wien. Due to its high scientific quality, innovative and applied nature it was selected and jointly funded by [...] graduate and PhD students. So far, he has published over 62 SCI international peer-reviewed papers (>1882 citations, h-index 24), 29 conference papers and 8 book chapters. Further information about Scientific & Technological Cooperation ( WTZ) see here
current citizen science projects and contribute to scientific research. If you are still looking for ideas for joint family leisure time on the weekends and 8th June or in the first weeks of the summer vacations, you are sure to find what you are looking for at the Citizen Science Award! In this competition, five research projects from different scientific fields invite families to participate in research
map is an online map showing the projects and scholarship holders funded by the OeAD. Who are the people who have been funded, what do they do after their scholarship or research stay and for which scientific disciplines have project cooperations been funded? With the oead.map we want to show the topics and contents of our funding – to make them accessible to a wider audience but also to give future [...] (top right) allows to display the OeAD locations and lectureships. What is the oead.map capable of? Extensive filter criteria: The search field offers the possibility to filter by countries, cities, scientific disciplines and much more. In the details of the respective projects and individual profiles you can find further useful information and links. Details: Only former OeAD scholarship holders can present
IIASA’s history, their current research and the possibilities they offer to young researchers. IIASA is situated in a former imperial palace called "Blauer Hof" and was founded to promote East-West scientific cooperation during the Cold War. Today more than 450 scientists do research on the critical issues of global environmental, economic, technological, and social change. Their findings provide valuable [...] valuable options to policy-makers to shape the future of our changing world. We have also met Paul Yillia a former scholarship holder and a guest research scholar at IIASA. Besides his academic and scientific journey he talked about the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), his work with the UN initiative "Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL)" and cooperation possibilities with IIASA. Our visit was
an informal exchange on 22 January. The OeAD maintains its own OeAD Cooperation Office in Shanghai, which is located directly at the Fudan University and serves as a service platform for bilateral scientific exchange between Austria and China. The Fudan President Ningsheng Xu is accompanied on his trip to Austria by Chen Wen, head of the International Office (first from the left), Yi Zhang, head of the [...] Cooperation between Austria and China has a long tradition On April 24th, 1984 the "Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Austria and the Government of the People's Republic of China on Scientific and Technological Cooperation" (S&T Cooperation Agreement) was signed in Beijing by the then Austrian Federal Minister for Science and Research, Heinz Fischer, and his Chinese counterpart, the chairman
were presented and discussed in scientific sessions. Questions on the decolonization of knowledge and the interconnection between the academic world and social realities were discussed. Listen to some interesting voices of representatives, participants, and former scholarship holders and their Austrian partners. Together they built over many years strong ties in scientific collaborative research across
opportunities to get along and discuss science with people who have a better grip in that specific research field. I would vouch for myself that viewing things from a different scientific perspective and establishing a nice scientific collaboration and cooperation between my home university and the host university is the major part of the takeaway back home. In the future, I have plans for coming back to [...] y. Note to Readers: The writer of this article, requests the readers (may be prospective upcoming OeAD scholarship holders!) to sit back on a reclining chair, with a mug of coffee to devour this scientific journey with peace, sprinkled with some personalized life lessons. I happened to pursue a 6-month research stay at the University of Innsbruck, under the scheme of AKTION Austria-Slovakia research [...] Austria-Slovakia Since the time I began my doctoral studies in September 2020, I had some curiosity creeping in my mind about pursuing an internship abroad, mainly to extend my horizons in terms of scientific exposure. During my third year of my PhD research in 2022, I happened to stumble upon the AKTION Austria-Slovakia research grant for doctoral students through my university information cell. I applied
have a chance to become full members. ASEA-UNINET has been a research-oriented network from the very beginning, and this in all branches of science. For almost 30 years it has stood for sustainable scientific cooperation, innovative and participatory research projects as well as study, teaching and research stays. It thus serves as a forum for the exchange of ideas and opinions between two continents [...] more than 400 scholarship months are awarded annually to incoming students from selected ASEAN partner countries within the framework of ASEA-UNINET. Every 1.5 years ASEA-UNINET honours outstanding scientific achievements within its network with the Bernd Rode Award. New as of 2021 is a research fellowship that enables postdocs from selected Southeast Asian partner universities to spend a short-term research [...] researchers. For some alumni the network was and is a springboard to great academic and political careers in their home countries. In these almost 30 years not only has a veritable flood of joint scientific cooperations and publications emerged but also the much respected “ASEA-UNINET family” spanning two continents, whose consistency has withstood even global crises such as those we are currently
Campaign #YoungScienceRocks for the reduction of science scepticism This year, the thematic focus is on scientific scepticism in Austria. Under the motto "Living Science - Shaping the Future", the Austrian Ministry of Education, Science and Research and the OeAD are launching numerous initiatives on scientific scepticism and what can be done to counter it. Further information can be found HERE .