Austrian Research and Technology Report 2020

Number and percentage of women in management positions* (research)
Year
Number of people
Percentage of women
2018
27 (18 men, 9 women)
33%
2019
37 (23 men, 14 women)
38%
Source: Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft (LBG). Note: * Heads and deputy heads 
Gender equality plans and measures
The Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft (LBG) is aiming to achieve certification as a “family-friendly employer” 
in 2020 (via the career and family audit berufundfamilie, see https://www.familieundberuf.at/audits/au-
dit-berufundfamilie) in order to highlight previous measures and to develop new ones. These should also 
include gender equality measures aimed at improving reconciliation of work and family life, as well as 
special measures aimed at promoting women, particularly in management positions.
2.10.3 Outlook
The Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft (LBG) is celebrating its 60th anniversary in 2020. A total of 20 Ludwig 
Boltzmann Institutes are currently conducting research with partners from science, industry, politics and 
society in the fields of medicine and life sciences as well as in the social and cultural sciences and human-
ities. The plan under the current government programme is to transform the Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft 
(LBG) from a research performing organisation into a research funding agency and for it to focus on med-
ical topics in the future.
COVID-19 supporting measures: the OIS (Open Innovation in Science) Research Enrichment Fund sup-
ports activities of Ludwig Boltzmann Institutes which are dealing with the challenges of the current “coro-
navirus crisis” and therefore helping to create a greater impact from their work. Support is offered for the 
application of open innovation within science in the broader sense.

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