Organisation and structure

The OeAD – Austria's Agency for Education and Internationalisation

The total budget of Austria's Agency for Education and Internationalisation in 2023 was around 137 million euros. 106 million euros of this were earmarked for funding mobility and projects. For further information see the annual report 2023. The headquarters is located at Ebendorferstraße 7, 1010 Vienna.

The OeAD – Austria’s Agency for Education and Internationalisation was founded in 1961 by the Rectors' Conference and the Austrian Students’ Union (ÖH) as an association named “ÖAD – Austrian Foreign Students Service”. It was renamed “Austrian Academic Exchange Service” in 1990 and “Austrian Exchange Service – Agency for International Cooperation in Education and Research” in 2000.

In 2021 the name was changed to “OeAD – Austria’s Agency for Education and Internationalisation”.

Until 2008 the OeAD was an association. On 1 January 2009 the OeAD-GmbH was established by the “OeAD-Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung Establishment Act” (in short: OeAD Act) (Federal Law Gazette I No. 99/2008).

The OeAD is wholly owned by the Republic of Austria. The owner representative is the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research. Legal information system of the Austrian Federal Government: https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/GeltendeFassung.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=20005873

The aims of the OeAD as Austria’s Agency for Education and Internationalisation is to carry out measures relating to European and international cooperation in science and research as well as fostering the arts, higher education, education, and training. For more information see Legal Mandate

The Milestones show the OeAD’s most important stages in the context of European and Austrian developments that influenced us between 1961 and 2022.