Austrian Research and Technology Report 2020

 
Indicator 6: Knowledge and technology transfer 
OeAD-GmbH’s grant and cooperation programmes involve a knowledge and technology transfer, even 
though this is not stated as an explicit funding programme objective for many of the programmes. 
 
Indicator 7: Gender and promotion of equality
OeAD-GmbH’s evaluation committees are formed on an ad-hoc basis according to the relevant programme 
and efforts are made to ensure a balanced percentage of women and men. 
2.8.3 New initiatives and instruments 2019 and outlook
New instruments and highlights 2019
The grant programmes, actions, support for university networks and the Cooperation Development Re-
search programme all funded by the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (BMBWF) were 
continued in 2019 based on the usual quality levels. OeAD-GmbH’s activities include providing information 
on and advertising the programme, support during the application phase, organisation of the external 
evaluation of applications, preparation and implementation of selection meetings, events forming part the 
programme, support during the implementation phase, support and supervision of grant recipients and 
project implementers, receipt and review of interim and final reports, reporting and end-to-end administra-
tive and financial processing and accounting. 

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A new university network known as the Austrian-African Research Network “Africa-UniNet” was estab-
lished in 2019 in cooperation between the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (BMBWF), 
the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences and OeAD-GmbH. Significant interest has been 
shown in this network from both the Austrian and the African sides. Following the constituent General 
Assembly in January 2020, the Africa-UniNet will promote networking and cooperation projects between 
63 African and 19 Austrian universities, thereby supplementing the existing Austrian university networks 
for the Southeast Asian region and China for the African continent.