Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW)
Member Academies
OeAW is a public cooperation (“Körperschaft öffentlichen Rechts”)
Dr. Ignaz Seipel-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna
+43 (0)1 51581-0
webmaster@oeaw.ac.at
https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/
Founded in 1847 as a learned society, today the OeAW has over 760 members and 1,800 employees dedicated to innovative basic research, interdisciplinary exchange of knowledge and the dissemination of new insights with the aim of contributing to progress in science and society as a whole.
The members of the Academy engage in interdisciplinary exchange to consider important questions concerning the future, advise on policy and society and inform the general public of important scientific insights.
The OeAW operates 27 research institutes in the field of innovative basic research in the arts and humanities and the social and natural sciences.
Identity
Heinz FASSMANN
President
1 July 2022 to 30 June 2027
BM a.D. Univ.-Prof. i.R. Dr. phil.
Founding date: 14 May 1847
Mission statement
The Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) is Austria’s largest non-university research and science institution. Its statutory mission is to “promote science in every way”.
PRINCIPAL OBJECTIVES 2025
AND KEY REALISATIONS 2024
– Representing Science
– Performing Research
– Promoting Talents
– Conveying Knowledge
– Forster Cooperation
NEXT ACADEMY ANNUAL EVENT
Festive Session of OeAW takes place annually mid of May
As of 31.12.2023:
NUMBER OF FELLOWS AND ASSOCIATE FELLOWS
In total 759 fellows
183 full members
184 corresponding members in Austria
312 corresponding members abroad
61 members of Young Academy
19 honorary members
In total 334 fellows in mathematical natural science section
94 full members
90 corresponding members in Austria
142 corresponding members abroad
8 honorary members
Percentage of women among Fellows and Associate Fellows
In total 22% female fellows (all member categories)
Number of staff
In total 1.824 staff (head count)
In total 1.507 staff (FTE)
In total 937 researchers (FTE)
Annual budget in 2023
181,5 M€ (including 42,9 M€ third party funding)
Financing sources
Public funding
Bilateral relations with other member academies of Euro-CASE
Polish Academy of Science s (PAN)
Other academy networks of which the academy is member of
ALLEA, EASAC, FEAM, Science Europe, ISC
Highlights 2020-2021
Conferences:
- Jan. 2020: “Rethinking Academia – Funding scientific research” a workshop to question the current system of research funding and to discuss modern ways in which knowledge and innovation can be promoted fairly and efficiently.
- Mar. 2020: “Science&Art@School – Cultural Collisions” at the interface between Arts and Physics pupils reflect on the scientific and the artistic approach to the topic of particle physics.
- Mar. 2020: The 12th NanoTrust conference “AdMats – Advanced Materials” brings into focus the question of how new materials might influence our social life and the environment.
- Oct. 2020: Conference “Artificial Intelligence and Human Enhancement. Affirmative and Critical Approaches in the Humanities from Both Sides of the Atlantic”.
Lectures:
- Feb. 2020: Lecture “Predicting regulatory networks from first principles” given by Gašper Tkačik, Professor at IST Austria, at the award ceremony of the Ignaz L. Lieben-Prize of ÖAW.
- Sep. 2020: Lecture “The fairytale of E-Mobility without CO2 foot-print” given by Georg Brasseur, Professor at TU Graz and the ÖAW shows possible ways leaving the dilemma of transport economy behind.
High Level Grants
Researchers at the Institute of the Austrian Academy received ten new ERC-Grants in 2020:
2 Advanced Grants: Quantum Physics, Cell-Biology
2 Starting Grants: Particle Physics, History
1 Synergy Grant: Quantum Physics
5 Consolidator Grants: Demography, Molecular Medicine, Medieval
Research, Molecular Biotechnology, Tibetology