The University of Innsbruck was founded in 1669 and is the biggest and most important research and education institution in western Austria, today comprised of 16 faculties, almost 28.200 students and more than 5.200 staff and faculty members. Located in the heart of the Alps, the University of Innsbruck offers the best conditions for successful research and teaching, and international rankings confirm the University’s leading role in basic research.
The life science activities are bundled in centers of excellence at the four FH Upper Austria schools in Hagenberg, Linz, Wels and Steyr in order to realize an internationally visible main hub. In these interfaculty applied research centers, interdisciplinary solutions for technical issues in the life sciences (medicine, biomedicine, biology, biochemistry, molecular biology, nutrition technology, biophysics and bioinformatics) are developed.
The AIT Austrian Institute of Technology is Austria’s largest non-university research institution and a network node at the interface of science and industry. IT provides R
The Management Center Innsbruck links together the best out of science, economy and consulting to the unique concept of an international Entrepreneurial School®. It stands for internationality, academic quality, practice orientation, innovation, close cooperation with industry, solution-oriented research and development, first-class infrastructure, a high level of customer and service orientation, and international renown. www.mci.edu
FH JOANNEUM is one of Austria’s leading Universities of Applied Sciences offering about 50 career-oriented bachelor and master degree programmes at 6 Departments: Applied Computer Sciences, Engineering, Health Studies, Building, Energy
OFI is one of the largest Austrian non-university service enterprises for application-oriented research and development. Since 1946, OFI has been working in partnership with business and organizations across Europe, offering innovation through R
With around 13,000 graduates and 4,400 students, the UAS Technikum Wien is Austria’s only purely technical university of applied sciences. It's R
Innsbruck Medical University has approximately 2000 employees and around 3,000 students and, together with the University of Innsbruck, is the largest educational and research institution in Western Austria and the regional University for Tyrol, Vorarlberg, South Tyrol and Liechtenstein. Courses offered by Innsbruck Medical University: Medicine and Dentistry, Molecular Medicine.
"Pioneering Minds – Caring for Patients‘ Health and Well-being“ In the spirit of this motto, the broad field of competence at Medical University of Graz rests on three main pillars: - Competitive and internationally networked cutting-edge research from basic science to clinical application - Personalized and state-of-the-art patient care at University Hospital Graz - Future-oriented and innovative education for students and people interested in professional development
IST Austria is an international, PhD-granting research institution dedicated to cutting-edge research in Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Life Sciences, and Information and System Sciences. It was established in 2009 and was ranked 3rd among the world's best research institutions in the Nature normalized Index 2019. IST is a world leader in successful ERC grant applications with the 65 institute’s professors holding a combined amount of 39 ERC grants.
The Department Life Sciences acts as an international academic competence centre of interdisciplinary education and research. The Department of Life Sciences is divided into the institutes: the Institute of Biotechnology (Research, development and knowledge transfer) and the Research Institute Krems Bioanalytics (Contract research institute of the IMC FH Krems in the field of biotechnology).
The University of Graz is one of the oldest universities in central Europe dating back to 1585. Despite of its long tradition it is a modern and renowned research institution. High level basic and applied research is conducted by about 3.200 researchers well embedded in an international network of co-operation. This builds an optimal learning and training environment for about 30.000 students in more than 120 fields of study.
The ADSI - Austrian Drug Screening Institute GmbH - is a research company owned by the Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck with a focus on phytopharmaceuticals, phytocosmetics and nutritional supplements and food analysis. ADSI forms the bridge between basic research (universities, technical universities of applied sciences, etc.) and business / industry. This is achieved through contract and project research based on partnership.
The DPU stands for excellence in teaching, science and research. It offers its students undergraduate courses, postgraduate courses Master of Science in Specialisation (MSc) and a scientific doctoral programme in Dentistry (PhD). "State-of-the-art" knowledge is imparted by renowned professors, with an excellent supervisory relationship between the teams of academics and students. Practical training is implemented on the basis of the latest methodes and and state-of-the-art equipment.
Austrian BioImaging/CMI is a consortium of leading Austrian imaging experts to foster and pioneer (correlated multimodality) imaging across scales in life sciences. We provide both service and R
We see ourselves as a pioneer in innovative research in the fields of medicine and health sciences, and a catalyst for work which will benefit society at large. A holistic view of health and illness is a founding principle of our teaching and research. Up-to-date, innovative methods and approaches are the cornerstone of modern healthcare. Research and teaching use this knowledge to pave the way for new discoveries in respect of physical, mental and spiritual wellbeing in equal measure.
BEST - Bioenergy and Sustainable Technologies GmbH is a K1 Competence Centre in the Austrian COMET programme and closes the gap between academic research and industrial technology development by undertaking industry-driven applied research and development in the fields of bioenergy, the sustainable bio-based economy, and future-proof energy systems.