Austrian Academy of Sciences

The Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) is Austria’s largest non-university research institution and a learned society, with about 1,900 employees and 26 institutes across Austria. Its distributed network connects corporate R&D teams with internationally linked researchers, advanced infrastructure, and partnership opportunities involving universities, public research bodies, and business. A central knowledge-transfer function supports invention disclosure, intellectual-property management, patents, licensing, and spin-offs. Research is backed by Austrian public funding and competitive awards from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), the European Research Council (ERC), and European research programs.