Austrian Research and Technology Report 2020

Customers
10,700
…of which SMEs
8,200 (77%)
Orders for industry
*
18,500
…of which orders with SMEs
13,100 (71%)
Human capital
FTEs (institutes)
543
…of which RDI employees
213 (40%)
Total employees
770
…of which academic staff
384 (50%)
…of which women
300 (40%)
Internationalisation
International orders
€9.3 million
International memberships**
58
International RDI projects
40
International project partners
220
Knowledge and technology transfer
Teaching assignments at universities and higher education 
institutions
130
Meetings of standardisation and other committees attended
200
Talks and presentations (in Austria and abroad)
700
Publications
190
Training sessions
90 (attended by 3,200 people)
Note: Austrian Cooperative Research (ACR) indicators 2018; * Incl. public sector; ** Memberships of international umbrella organisations
Source: Austrian Cooperative Research (ACR) (2019).

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members. The activities of the Austrian Cooperative 
Research (ACR) are also often the subject of evalu-
ations
100
.
Quality management is another significant ele-
ment, including as part of the networking activities 
of Austrian Cooperative Research (ACR). For in-
stance, the staff responsible for quality management 
at the individual Austrian Cooperative Research 
(ACR) institutes hold regular “ACR QM circles” to dis-
cuss relevant matters and questions from their field. 
To ensure that staff at the Austrian Cooperative Re-
search (ACR) institutes maintain the right level of 
qualifications over the long term, the topic of con-
tinuing education is another focal point. To this end, 
the various institutes organise individual training 
measures on a regular basis, while the issue is also 
pursued at a higher level as part of ACR’s qualifica-
tions network. For instance, staff at the Austrian Co-
operative Research (ACR) institutes are offered gen-
eral training courses on topics including the GDPR 
and agile project management.