Research Resources – List

The Dutch Scientific Institutes Abroad (NWIBs) are advanced scientific posts of the Dutch universities. These institutes are mainly located around the Mediterranean: in Athens, Cairo, Florence and Rome. The institutes are aimed at supporting and realizing scientific education and research, and also make a substantial contribution to the profiling of Dutch higher education abroad. The institutes are jointly managed by Dutch Universities.

PIE is a platform for Dutch institutes that cooperate with partner institutes in the Global South. The overall aim is to contribute to global and local sustainable development, both in countries and regions where partner institutes are based and in the Netherlands. The main focus is on cooperation in post-secondary education, in scientific and applied research and knowledge development, and in innovation through knowledge application.

UnILiON is an informal network of Brussels liaison offices representing excellent universities based in Europe and Japan. The network represents an arena of exchange where the participants share information, nurture collaboration and act as information multipliers towards the represented organisations.Thanks to UnILiON you can easily access some of the most active research, higher education and innovation players in Europe and beyond.

Digital Tech Summit is Denmark’s meeting point and showcase for digital technologies and a meeting point for strong research environments, technology leaders and start-ups.
Digital Tech Summit gives you opportunity to engage in valuable networking, seek out lead generation on new projects and clients, as well as professional development through the program and speakers, and market insights from the mingling, the sessions and the exhibition area.

The EUA Council for Doctoral Education (EUA-CDE) strives to be an inclusive community of academic leaders and professionals. We welcome membership applications from all European universities awarding doctoral degrees and institutions working on issues related to doctoral education and research training. EUA-CDE brings together the largest community of academic leaders and professionals working on doctoral education and research training in Europe.

SURF is a cooperative association of Dutch educational and research institutions in which the members combine their strengths. Within SURF, we work together to acquire or develop the best possible digital services, and to encourage knowledge sharing through continuous innovation. The members are the owners of SURF.

EIT Climate-KIC is a Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC), working to accelerate the transition to a zero-carbon, climate-resilient society. EIT Climate-KIC runs a range of inspirational education programmes across Europe and online, for students, postgraduates and professionals. These programmes develop their participants’ skills and capacities, empowering them with up-to-date knowledge and best practice.

In Universities of The Netherlands (UNL), Dutch universities work together towards a strong university sector. The 14 Dutch universities within Universities of The Netherlands show the outside world how they fulfil their social function, formulate shared ambitions relating to academic education and research and valorisation, and lobby for the preconditions needed to realise these ambitions. UNL office identifies, prioritises and supports the association’s steering groups and Board.

LIBER supports and speaks up on behalf of university, national and special libraries – their institutions and their users – across Europe. LIBER (Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche – Association of European Research Libraries) is the voice of Europe’s RESEARCH LIBRARY community. Approximately 420 national, university and other libraries are part of LIBER and our wider network includes goal-oriented partnerships with other organisations in Europe and beyond.

University Social Responsibility Network (USRN) is a global network for the promotion of social responsibility as a core component of the university mission. USRN provides its participating members with an effective platform for productive collaboration in all USR fields, thus forming the vanguard for the global spread of social responsibility. The platform has 20 participating universities spread across the global continents.

ASPHER is the key independent European organisation dedicated to strengthening the role of public health by improving education and training of public health professionals for both practice and research.

European Infrastructure for Biological Data

Czech National Infrastructure for Biological Data

NUAS (“Det Nordiska Universitets Administratörs Samarbetet”) is a member-driven collaborative organization established in 1976. Initially, one joint seminar was arranged annually. Today, NUAS’ membership base includes 65 universities and university colleges. NUAS has 14 interest groups that focus on specific administrative disciplines, with a total of 125 active members.

The objectives of the Network project are to strengthen and promote the higher education system in Iceland, to achieve more efficient use of resources in university operations, and to ensure strong and varied higher education operations throughout the country.

The Knowledge Transfer Centre West (WTZ West) is Western Austria’s biggest competence centre for academic knowledge and technology transfer. The WTZ West connects six universities and four universities of applied sciences in a professional network with the aim of generating new knowledge horizons, combining potentials and putting research at the forefront. The Knowledge Transfer Centre West is funded by the austria wirtschaftsservice aws with the financial means of the Nationalstiftung für Forschung, Technologie und Innovation.

READ-COOP SCE with limited liability was established as a European Cooperative Society to sustain and further develop the Transkribus platform. Transkribus is a comprehensive platform for handwritten text recognition used by thousands of scholars, archivists, librarians and family-historians worldwide. Transkribus was developed within the Horizon 2020 project READ (Recognition and Enrichment of Archival Documents) by a consortium of leading research groups from all over Europe, headed by the University of Innsbruck.

The CCCA is a contact point for researchers, politicians, the media, and the public for all questions concerning climate research in Austria. Thus, the CCCA promotes a sustainable climate dialog. The term “climate research” encompasses the scientific examination of climate change, its physical, political, economic, cultural and social causes, the consequences of climate change for society, the economy and the environment, climate mitigation and adaptation strategies and identification of vulnerabilities and capacities.

Joint research is an important pillar of the European Region. For this reason, the Universities of Bozen-Bolzano, Innsbruck and Trento committed to promoting the mobility of researchers and students. Improving mobility, expanding the range of curricula at the partner Universities and strengthening cross-border research as well as promoting young scientists are just some of the common goals.

AURAM is a network uniting the research support staff of Austria’s public universities. Its main aim is to offer professional support for all science- and research-related topics. Transregional networking and a regular exchange of ideas are the cornerstones of its mission to give new impetus to the universities’ research support landscape and to professionalize existing research support offers. By opening up new perspectives on current research topics and programs in collaboration with relevant funding organizations, AURAM seeks to pave the way for future success.

The ASEAN European Academic University Network (ASEA-UNINET) is a network of universities, consisting of European and South-East Asian universities with the goal of promoting the continuous internationalization of education and research. Every year more than 100 bilateral and multilateral research projects are conducted. Furthermore, PhD and Post-Doc scholarships are granted to students and researchers. In addition, international workshops, conferences, summer/winter schools as well as networking events are organized on a regular basis.

The UniNEtZ partner institutions take on so-called (co-)sponsorships for the SDGs. A sponsorship means that the institution coordinates and compiles all knowledge and activities throughout Austria on the respective SDG. Participation describes the content-related collaboration on a specific SDG. Through these intensive collaborations and professional engagement with the SDGs, all contributions are collected, critically examined and coordinated with each other in order to work on the development of an options paper in the period 2019-2021. This is intended to support the Austrian government in implementing the Sustainable Development Goals.

The Disaster Competence Network Austria (DCNA) bundles scientific expertise in the field of disaster research. The networking platform acts as a focal point for disaster research, bringing together scientific institutions and their stakeholders, as well as public and private entities. Furthermore, DCNA brings together and exploits existing scientific and technical infrastructures and expertise in the field of disaster risk management.

The Austrian-African Research Network Africa-UniNet was initiated to create a long-term, stable basis for cooperation between Austrian and African universities and research institutions. It intends to promote new contacts, deepen scientific cooperation and provide excellent opportunities for innovative joint research projects.