Welcome to the Researcher's Mobility Portal Austria!

Planning a research stay in Austria? Interested to study in Austria? Look here for career opportunities and find relevant information and assistance. This site gives you essential information concerning your and your family's mobility. Information relating to Research in Austria including Research Job opportunities, Grants and Fellowships as well as practical information on living and working in Austria together with cultural issues and FAQs are provided. A special section is devoted to Women in Science.

Austria has launched this "Researcher's Mobility Portal Austria" on a national level in order to act towards the implementation of the Mobility Strategy for the European research Area as part of the EU-initiative "pan-European Researcher's Mobility Portal".

• Looking for financial support for your research or studies?
  Consult the interactive online Grants Database maintained by the Austrian Exchange Service (ÖAD) and you can find a broad range of funding opportunities and detailed information on fellowships/grants in Austria. More than 800 grants, research promotion funds, scholarships and bursaries can be accessed on the Grants Database. The search machine enables queries by selecting specific criteria (country, area, target group). The Grants Database was co-funded by the European Commission.
  Grants in Austria

• General information on fellowships/grants at European/International level can be found on the
  pan-European Researcher's Mobility Portal

• Find research job vacancies in Austria

  - Austrian research job vacancies submitted to the pan-European Researcher's Mobility Portal
  Updated listings from the Research Opportunity Database

  - Links to research related vacancies in Austria
  Vacancy listings on institutions' and companies' own websites

  - Links to job search engines offering research vacancies in Austria
  Austrian job search engines in which 'research' is a search criteria

• Find European-wide research job vacancies

  European-wide job vacancies are posted on the pan-European Researcher's Mobility Portal

  Other career resources for European researchers

• European Presidency Conference
  A Researchers' labour market: Europe a pole of attraction?
  The European Charter for Researchers and the Code of Conduct for their Recruitment as a driving force for enhancing career prospects

  The Mobility Centres Austria compiled useful information on obstacles you could be confronted with (Austrian survey on obstacles for mobile researchers
  (pdf, 441 KB)) and a summary of frequently asked questions is additional included within this further information section, Frequently asked questions (pdf, 122 KB

• Find practical information about Austria

  - Working
  Visa, entry and residency permits
  Work permits
  Social security rights
  Taxation and other fiscal issues

- Living
Childcare facilities, schools
Health and medical care
Language learning possibilities
Accommodation & Housing
Sundry info on daily life

- Culture and leisure
About the country, cities

• Find practical information about other countries and at European level
  
  pan-European Researcher's Mobility Portal
  Your Europe (practical information on your rights and opportunities in the EU):
  Citizens Signpost Service (personalised practical advice and assistance):
  Cordis – Community Research & Development Information Service
  IPR Helpdesk – Intellectual Property Rights Helpdesk

• National level
  

  National Research and Innovation Plan (The Austrian Council for Research and Technology Development) (PDF Document)
  Advisory role to federal government in defining and planning national RTD strategy (The Austrian Council for Research and Technology Development)
  Platform Research & Technology Policy Evaluation (fteval)

• European/International level
  

  The European Research Area
  The European framework programmes
  Sience and society in Europe
  Scientific Information for Policy Support in Europe – SINAPSE
  Marie Curie Actions- Human Resources and Mobility
  ERAWATCH, New information platform on research systems and policies within the European Union
  The Office of Science & Technology (OST) at the Embassy of Austria in Washington, DC, is a strategic interface for science, research and science policy between Austria and North America.

• Charter for Researchers and a Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers