Austrian Research and Technology Report 2020

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Austrian Research and Technology Report 2020
BRIDGE Network
The “BRIDGE Network”
 (Basic Research Institutions Delivering Graduate Education)
was established in 
2019 with the Rockefeller University (USA), the Francis Crick Institute (UK), the Weizmann Institute of 
Science (Israel), the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (Japan) and IST Austria as founding 
partners. The BRIDGE Network is an informal platform of the aforementioned academic institutions that 
pursues two goals: to perform top research and train doctoral candidates. 
Outlook for the coming years
The current planning horizon for IST Austria calls for the Institute to grow to 90 research groups by 2026. 
Construction of a new laboratory building for chemistry research is in full swing. The planned campus 
visitor centre will eventually be home to the increasing activities of IST Austria in the area of scientific 
outreach. Further development of the graduate school will introduce a combined master’s/PhD programme.
2.3 Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW)
2.3.1 Profile and key figures 
“Promote science in every way” – that is the statutory mission of the Austrian Academy of Sciences 
(OeAW). Succeeding in this ambition demands flexibility and innovation capability. In other words: space 
for new ideas. Austria’s largest non-university institution for basic research has offered this space since 
the year 1847, when the academy was founded as a learned society. 
In short, the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) stands for:
• expertise and excellence:
bringing experts together, advancing research, discovering new insights;
• curiosity and openness:
asking new questions, overcoming disciplinary boundaries, exploring the unknown;
• attractiveness and diversity:
promoting exceptional talent, fostering opportunities, advocating plurality in discourse; 
• autonomy and integrity:
guaranteeing scientific freedom, ensuring traceability, exemplifying responsibility; 
• cooperation and competition:
working with the best, expanding the exchange of ideas, being a pioneer;
• fascination and vision: 
exciting young people, strengthening critical thinking, fostering engagement;
• transfer and innovation:
sharing insights, exploiting results, supporting entrepreneurship. 
As a national institution, the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) is a learned society, a dispenser of 
knowledge and a research performer and promoter. By embracing the interplay between these areas, the 
academy is able to capitalise on synergies and innovation potential in dynamic ways.
The Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) is dedicating to disseminating scientific achievements and 

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