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Austria
About this country
Austria is one of the founding members of the EUREKA Initiative since 1985. Currently, several million Euro per year of public money are invested in the funding of market-oriented R&D projects with excellent results for Austrian companies and research institutions. From the very beginning, Austria has also been involved in the funding programme Eurostars, run jointly by EUREKA and the European Union. Consequently, the successor programme Eurostars-2 receives the full support by the Austrian government.
Besides the bottom-up projects generated by companies themselves, Austria actively supports the following EUREKA strategic initiatives:
- EUREKA Clusters in the ICT sector: CATRENE, ITEA 3, CELTIC-Plus
- the EUREKA Clusters ACQUEAU and METALLURGY Europe
Other EUREKA strategic initiatives (other Clusters, Umbrellas) are support on project level.
The Eurostars-2 programme started with its first cut-off date in March 2014. The Austrian funding authorities have earmarked a budget of 3.5 Mio € for each year of the programme.
Tab 1: Country data
The dashboard summarises country activity in the EUREKA Network projects, Eurostars (1 and 2) and Clusters instruments from 2013-17. The user can select the country by using the selector in the top right corner.
Number of projects and total (public and private) investment/costs are shown in the bar charts at the top of the dashboard. Organisation type (bar) and technology/market area (pie) are shown on the bottom left. The user can switch between technology and market area using the control.
Technology and market areas:
The collaboration map in the bottom right side shows the number of collaborations between the selected country and other countries across the three instruments. The user can zoom into the map to identify the number of collaborations with each country. If more than one organisation from a country participates in a project, this is counted as one country collaboration (project-level).
Users can zoom with the usual controls, and scroll around the map by holding shift while moving.
Tab 2: Programme overview
The dashboard displays an overview of EUREKA activity across the three instruments - EUREKA Network projects, Eurostars (1 and 2) and Clusters – from 2013-17.
The user can select the preferred indicator - number of projects or total investment (€m) - using the control in the top right corner. Clicking on a row, column or cell in the table to filters the map below.
Clicking on a country in the map filters the table above. Users can zoom with the usual controls, and scroll around the map by holding shift while moving.
Projects are attributed to years as follows:
- Network projects: year of project endorsement by EUREKA
- Eurostars: call year
- Clusters: year of labelling (data includes labelled projects which are not yet running)
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