Austrian Research and Technology Report 2020

2019
Total funding budget in € millions
240.
251.6
of which new or extended projects in € millions (amount of new approvals)
230.8
237.4
Staff FWF office
Headcount
118
121
FTE
101.13
102.24
Number of approved research projects
684
707
Number of individuals funded via funds from FWF (as of 31 Dec.)
4,155
4,175
Source: Austrian Science Fund (FWF).

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2. Key Players in Research Funding and in Non-university Research 
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2.7.2 Indicators for 2018 and 2019 
 
Indicator 1: Funding, including third-party funding 
2018
2019
Total funding budget (research funding) in € millions
240.5
251.6
of which federal funds
233.8
247.5
of which basic budget
215.2
221.3
of which from NFTE and Austria Fund
18.6
26.1
of which BMVIT
<0.1
<0.1
of which funds from the regional governments
4.1
3.2
of which funds from private individuals and donors
1.3
0.9
of which funds from international institutions (including third-party funding 
acquired)
1.3
<0.1
Processing costs in relation to the funding budget
3.79%
4.02%
Processing costs in relation to funding applied for from FWF
0.87%
0.98%
Source: Austrian Science Fund (FWF).
 
Indicator 2: Quality assurance and evaluations
Surveys of (potential) applicants and funded individuals
The scientific community is surveyed on various aspects of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) procedure, 
funding programmes and research agendas every ten years. These surveys are carried out based on calls 
for proposals by international institutions. The last survey was conducted in 2013 by the (former) Institute 
for Research Information and Quality Assurance (Berlin) (now the German Centre for Higher Education 
Research and Science Studies – DZHW).
124
The survey prior to this was conducted in 2002.
125
Surveys among project managers are conducted on an on-going basis as part of the final project report 
aimed at evaluating various aspects of application submission, project management and support and su-
pervision from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).