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OeAD Higher Education Conference 2025: Registration is now open!

On 26 and 27 November 2025 the OeAD Higher Education Conference invites you to the FH Kufstein Tirol. Under the theme ‘Higher Education and the World of Work | Global Perspectives’ the conference will focus on current developments, challenges and opportunities at the interface between academic education and the global world of work.

1 min read · 10. September 2025
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Higher Education Studies

ENIC NARIC Annual Conference 2025: Focus on international recognition

From 25 to 27 May 2025 the ENIC-NARIC network’s 32nd Annual Conference took place in Tirana, Albania. Around 150 recognition experts from 43 countries met to discuss current challenges in the recognition of diplomas and higher education qualifications. Three representatives of the Austrian ENIC-NARIC team also took part in the conference.

2 min read · 05. September 2025
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From OeAD scholarship to global mountain collaboration

Fernando Ruiz Peyré completed his PhD in Innsbruck in 2014, supported by the North-South-Dialogue scholarship, which fostered early collaborations beyond Europe. After nearly a decade as Assistant Professor at the University Innsbruck, he is now Junior Group Leader at ÖAW’s Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research. His work on social-ecological transformations links European research with Global South partners, most recently through Highlands.3, a global initiative co-creating knowledge for sustainable mountain futures.

3 min read · 05. September 2025
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Virtual Research Talk Discover Austria: Where Research meets Opportunities

From 15 to 16 September 2025 the "Virtual Research Talk", organised by the Austrian Business Agency (ABA), will take place. The OeAD is proud to be a cooperation partner of this event and will contribute with a presentation on "Move to Austria: Services for Researchers."

1 min read · 02. September 2025
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Advancing Drug Delivery Systems Through International Collaboration

By Dr. Aamir Jalil, OeAD alumnus of Ernst Mach Grant, Nachbetreuungsstipendium/EZA

2 min read · 21. August 2025
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Scholars Alumni Scholarship

Inspiration from Austria for Sustainability in Pakistan

By Yasrab Jehangir | Former Awardee of OeAD, Ernst Mach Grant to study at an Austrian University of Applied Sciences (Fachhochschule)

4 min read · 11. August 2025
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Neue Angebote für Kinderuni-Antragstellende

Ab sofort können sich Interessierte, die bisher noch kein Förderungsansuchen für eine Kinder- und Jugenduni eingereicht haben, für zwei neue Webinare anmelden.

1 min read · 06. August 2025
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Scholars Alumni

My Semester at MCI Innsbruck with the Ernst Mach Grant

Malik Mubeen's path from Pakistan to Innsbruck

4 min read · 06. August 2025
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14 new KoEF projects selected for funding

The Cooperation Development Research (KoEF) programme continues to foster international partnerships between Austrian higher education institutions and research partners in the Global South. In its 5th call for proposals, the Austrian Federal Ministry of Women, Science and Research (BMFWF) has approved 14 new projects for funding.

3 min read · 05. August 2025
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20 new Africa-UniNet projects to start in 2025

In the framework of the 5th Africa-UniNet call 20 cooperative research projects between universities and research institutions in Austria and in African countries were accepted for funding.

4 min read · 04. August 2025
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Scholars Development Research

Africa-Uninet Project133_Uganda: Enhancing African Catfish Aquaculture in Uganda

Hatchery Propagation, Population Suitability, and Broodstock Management

2 min read · 04. August 2025
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OeAD participation Fairs Europe Higher Education Marketing

EAIE Conference and Exhibition 2025

Under the brand "Study in Austria", the OeAD, together with 38 higher education institutions, will represent Austria as a higher education location at the EAIE 2025 in Sweden.

1 min read · 24. July 2025