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COMET – Competence Centers For Excellent Technologies
COMET – Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies is a central funding program of the Austrian technology politics. It serves to create competence centers for various topics at selected locations. Basic Strategy The COMET program stimulates academic scientists and industrial researchers and developers to work together on strategic and translational research projects, closer to industry than university groups would typically work on, however concentrating on prototype research and not on products ready for the market. History Predecessors of the COMET program were the K_plus and K_ind programs of the Austrian government that started in 1998. In 2006 the program was restructured and put in the hands of the Austrian Research Promotion Agency The Austrian Research Promotion Agency (german: links=no, Österreichische Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft or FFG) is an organization for the promotion of research and innovation in the field of applied and industrial research in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austria
Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous city and state. A landlocked country, Austria is bordered by Germany to the northwest, the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia to the northeast, Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. The country occupies an area of and has a population of 9 million. Austria emerged from the remnants of the Eastern and Hungarian March at the end of the first millennium. Originally a margraviate of Bavaria, it developed into a duchy of the Holy Roman Empire in 1156 and was later made an archduchy in 1453. In the 16th century, Vienna began serving as the empire's administrative capital and Austria thus became the heartland of the Habsburg monarchy. After the dissolution of the H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austrian Research Promotion Agency
The Austrian Research Promotion Agency (german: links=no, Österreichische Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft or FFG) is an organization for the promotion of research and innovation in the field of applied and industrial research in Austria and is 100% owned by the Republic of Austria . The aim is to strengthen the business location Austria through targeted programs, especially in research and development. The ownership is represented by the federal government through the Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology and the Federal Ministry of Economics and Labour. History and Organization The Austrian Research Promotion Agency was founded in September 2004 ''Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft Errichtungsgesetz" (FG Gesetz)'', StF. BGBl I Nr. 73/2004 as "the central Austrian organisation for promotion of research and innovation". It was a result of consolidating the Industrial Research Promotion Fund (FFF), the Austrian Space Agency (ASA), the Bureau for Int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austrian Centre Of Industrial Biotechnology
The Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology (ACIB) is an international research institution for industrial biotechnology. Research facilities are located in Graz, Linz, Innsbruck, Tulln and Vienna, with additional research sites in Heidelberg, Bielefeld, Pavia, Rzeszów, Barcelona, Canterbury and Taiwan. The administrative headquarters are located in Graz. History ACIB was founded in 2010 and is a COMET Centre (K2) in the funding program COMET – Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies. It was preceded by the Research Centre Applied Biocatalysis in Graz and the Austrian Center of Biopharmaceutical Technology in Vienna. Owners of acib are the University of Innsbruck and the University of Graz, the Graz University of Technology, the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna and Joanneum Research. The K2 center is funded within the COMET program by the BMVIT, BMDW as well as the federal states of Styria, Vienna, Lower Austria and Tyrol. The CO ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Softwarepark Hagenberg
The Softwarepark Hagenberg is the Austrian technology park for software, located in Hagenberg im Mühlkreis, Austria, founded in 1989 by Professor Bruno Buchberger. The Softwarepark Hagenberg is a unique collaboration where research, business and education are intensively cooperating. Because of its success, the park has been called the "Wunder von Hagenberg" (miracle from Hagenberg). History Buchberger devised the concept for the park in 1989. It was created to balance both economic needs and desire for research and as such, the concept focused one third on economic production, one third on research and one third on academic education in the field of IT and related sciences. These three components drive a synergetic "spirale of innovation". Softwarepark has four main partners: The Province of Upper Austria, the Johannes Kepler University Linz, thCommunity of Hagenberg and Raiffeisen Landesbank Oberösterreich, a major local bank. The first institute to be established in the park was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
VRVis
The VRVis Zentrum für Virtual Reality und Visualisierung (VRVis) is the largest independent research center in the area of Visual Computing in Austria, and one of the largest in Europe. It is one of currently 22 centrally funded COMET – Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies of Austria.COMET - Competence Centres for Excellent Technologies, ERAWATCH/European Commission, erawatch.jrc.ec.europa.eu' The VRVis Center is located in Ares Tower in Vienna. History The VRVis Center for Virtual Reality and Visualization was founded in January 2000, and funded by the Austrian Kplus Competence Center program. The main initiator of the organization was Werner Purgathofer from TU Wien, with 3 other Austrian institutes as co-investigators. In 2010 and 2017 VRVis received new funding from the Austrian COMET program. VRVis was located in the science and technology park Tech Gate Vienna since 2001, in 2017 it moved to Ares Tower in Vienna. Organization and business VRVis funct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
