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A solution for contactless fingerprint identification, deployed nationwide for the first time, was presented at the UN Counter-Terrorism Week in New York as an internationally recognised example of best practice in responsible biometric technologies.

On 1 July 2026, the Austrian DC Pilot Factory at Fill Maschinenbau in Gurten, Upper Austria, opened its doors and presented research findings and demonstrators for the climate-neutral industry of the future:

• The Austrian DC Pilot Factory demonstrated, under real-world industrial conditions, how direct current grids, photovoltaics and bidirectional electric mobility can be intelligently interconnected.
• The research and demonstration project, led by the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, is developing and testing innovative solutions for a flexible, efficient and renewable energy supply for production sites.
• Participants in the demo workshop were given exclusive insights into the demonstration plant and the latest research findings on the industrial application of direct current technologies.

Teaching materials, activist leaflets, artists’ publications, and administrative documents were once frequently reproduced using mimeography – a now largely forgotten stencil-based process that was widely used in education, administration, art, and activism. As a previously underexplored part of Austria’s cultural heritage, these materials are now at the centre of the research project “A Mimeo Archaeology” (AMA).

The project combines questions from the humanities with state-of-the-art technological methods. Together with the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna,  the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology is developing AI-supported methods to identify, document, and preserve mimeographed documents over the long term. By bringing together media archaeology, heritage science, artistic research, and machine learning, AMA is creating new methodological approaches for the study and preservation of these materials.