NEW 13.08.2025 Corporate Technology Talks Austria 2025: Workshops explore key issues surrounding competitiveness Future strategies for Austria and Europe will be discussed under the motto ‘Boosting Competitiveness – The Power of Research and Innovation’. Technology Talks Austria - Austria's most relevant technology conference - will bring together more than 20 internationally renowned top speakers at the MuseumsQuartier Vienna on 11 and 12 September 2025 to discuss the central importance of research, technology and innovation for the competitiveness of Austria and Europe. The issues addressed in the keynote speeches and plenary sessions will be explored in greater depth or supplemented by related topics in a total of 14 workshops. "All stakeholders come together at the Technology Talks Austria. Science, research, politics, but also companies and investors can exchange ideas here. We all know that good networks determine whether there will be success for Austria and Europe at the end of the day," explains Innovation and Infrastructure Minister Peter Hanke. 5011 Characters
NEW 31.07.2025 Corporate Technology Talks Austria 2025: Research and innovation for greater competitiveness Austria's most important technology conference with more than 20 internationally renowned speakers from research, industry and politics will take place on 11 and 12 September in the MuseumsQuartier Vienna. 6111 Characters
NEW 26.06.2025 Corporate EU Vice-President Henna Virkkunen to deliver keynote speech at Technology Talks Austria 2025 Die Technology Talks Austria – Österreichs führende Technologiekonferenz – versammeln 2025 mehr als 20 international renommierte Top-Speaker:innen im MuseumsQuartier Wien. Angeführt von EU-Vizepräsidentin Henna Virkkunen und Samsung-Spitzenmanager Young Sohn, stehen am 11. und 12. September die Sicherung und der Ausbau der Wettbewerbsfähigkeit Österreichs und Europas im Fokus. Die Veranstaltung findet direkt im Anschluss an das FFG-Forum statt. Weitere Informationen unter technology-talks-austria.at. 5490 Characters
NEW 16.06.2025 Corporate DATE: Information event on AI Factory Austria – Austria's key project for powerful and trustworthy artificial intelligence The AIT Austrian Institute of Technology together with Advanced Computing Austria (ACA) invites you to the AI Factory Austria (AI:AT) online information event. The event will provide an initial overview of the structure, goals and planned services of this new initiative within the EuroHPC JU and its role for research, industry, start-ups and public administration. Date: Tuesday, 24 June 2025 Time: 9:30 am Location: Online via livestream; streaming link: https://events.streaming.at/ait-20250624 857 Characters
NEW 28.05.2025 Corporate Energy researcher Martin Krammer wins the AIT Poster Award 2025 The AIT Poster Award of the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology specifically promotes entrepreneurial thinking and innovative spirit among young researchers - and thus creates the basis for future spin-offs and technology-driven start-ups. The focus is on research projects with clear application potential and prospects for commercial utilisation. 4999 Characters 1 Image
NEW 21.05.2025 Corporate AIT balance sheet 2024: Research with impact, investments with a future AIT presents solid annual results, high investments and strong impact, and reports high demand for application-oriented research The AIT Austrian Institute of Technology can look back on a financially successful year in 2024. With earnings after taxes of 5.42 million euros (previous year: 4.89 million euros), the result remained at a level that will enable further investments in strategic future fields. Total operating income reached €218 million, an increase of 9 per cent over the previous year. External revenues from contract and co-financed research played a major role in this, growing by 11.3 per cent to a total of €130.7 million. Despite an expected decline in order intake due to high one-off effects in the previous year, AIT's order backlog increased by 6 per cent to 276.2 million euros at the end of the year. The institute also grew in terms of personnel: AIT currently has 1,653 employees from more than 50 countries. 6416 Characters 5 Images
NEW 14.05.2025 Corporate DATE: AIT balance sheet press conference on 21 May 2025 at 9:30 a.m. at the APA Press Centre AIT informs about the results of the annual financial statements 2024 with impact of AIT research and outlook for 2025 and cordially invites media representatives to the press conference. 1255 Characters
NEW 06.05.2025 Corporate Technology Talks Austria 2025: Summit meeting of the RTI community In addition to the top-class plenary programme with internationally renowned speakers, the programme includes 14 workshops with well-known partners, in which the general topic of "competitiveness" will be explored in greater depth. 4557 Characters 2 Images
NEW 24.04.2025 Corporate Girls experience research at the AIT up close On 24 April 2025, the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology opened its doors to 16 schoolgirls aged 14 and over as part of the Vienna Daughters' Day, giving them the opportunity to spend a day gaining insights into cutting-edge applied research and technological innovations. The diverse programme ranged from artificial intelligence, automation and virtual reality to energy and battery research. 1427 Characters 8 Images
NEW 10.04.2025 Corporate AIT: MEDUSA wins Houska Prize The AIT Austrian Institute of Technology wins first place in the prestigious Houska Prize, the largest private prize for applied research in Austria, in the non-university research category with the MEDUSA project (sustainable multi-megawatt fast charging on the medium-voltage grid). A second AIT project also received an award - the Mariella Schurz Prize honours "Electrical cell lysis for rapid antibiotic resistance tests". Both prizes honour practical research with high economic relevance. 4258 Characters 1 Image