Research and Technology Development Council

Council for Research and Technology Development Austrian Authority
State level	Federation
Position of the authority	Legal person under public law
At sight	Federal Ministry for Climate Protection, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology
founding	2000
Headquarters	Vienna 1 , Pestalozzigasse 4
Authority management	Hannes Androsch (chairman)
Website	www.rat-fte.at

The Council for Research and Technology Development (RTD Council) is an advisory body to the Austrian Federal Government based in Vienna . It was founded in 2000 and received the legal title as a legal entity under public law in 2004 . Its organs are the council assembly and the management.

tasks

The RTD Council has the following statutory tasks:

1. Submission of recommendations for strengthening Austria's position in international research and technology cooperations,
2. Elaboration of proposals for a monitoring of all research, innovation and technology-oriented institutions with the participation of the federal government, taking into account international standards,
3. Elaboration of proposals for priorities for the national research and technology programs and for the funding policy of all research, innovation and technology-oriented institutions with the participation of the federal government,
4. Elaboration of proposals for a long-term Austrian strategy for the field of research and technology development as well as a review of the step-by-step implementation,
5. autonomous submission of proposals for national research and technology programs taking into account international research and technology cooperation programs of all research, innovation and technology-oriented institutions with the participation of the federal government,
6. Advising the federal government and, if requested, a federal minister alone or a state government on all questions relating to research , technology and innovation ,
7. Creation of proposals to improve the cooperation between business and science, in particular by merging university research and applied research and technology development in companies.

Council meeting

The council consists of 8 voting members who are each appointed for a term of office of 5 years. The Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Research and the Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology have the right to nominate four members each . A one-time re-appointment is possible. The following personalities from science and business are currently members:

• Hannes Androsch , Head of Industry and Supervisory Board of the Austrian Institute of Technology (Chairman of the FTE Council)
• Markus Hengstschläger , Head of the Institute for Medical Genetics, Medical University of Vienna (Deputy Chairman of the FTE Council)
• Jakob Edler , Executive Director, Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI
• Hermann Hauser , company founder, computer and venture capital entrepreneur
• Sabine Herlitschka , CEO of Infineon Technologies Austria AG
• Helga Nowotny , Former President of the European Research Council, Board Member ERA Council Forum Austria
• Sylvia Schwaag Serger , Vice Rector , University of Lund
• Klara Sekanina

Members who left in 2015 are: Peter Skalicky ( Technical University of Vienna ), Renée Schroeder ( University of Vienna ), Marianne Hilf ( University of St. Gallen ), Gabriele Ambros ( Bohmann Verlag ), Karin Schaupp, Gi Eun Kim ( Seokyeong University )

Members who left in 2010 are: Knut Consemüller (Böhler-Uddeholm), Günther Bonn ( University of Innsbruck ), Dervilla Donnelly ( University College Dublin ), Albert Hochleitner (physicist) ( Siemens AG Austria), Reinhard Petschacher ( Infineon Technologies AG ), Hans Schönegger ( Lakeside Science & Technology GmbH), Jürgen Stockmar ( Magna International ) and Gabriele Zuna-Kratky ( Technical Museum Vienna )

Members who left in 2005 are: Hermann Kopetz (Vienna University of Technology), Ingeborg Hochmair-Desoyer ( MED-EL GesmbH ) and Gottfried Brem (VMU Vienna).

Non-voting members of the council are the Federal Minister for Education, Science and Research, the Federal Minister for Transport, Innovation and Technology, the Federal Minister for Digitization and Business Location and the Federal Minister for Finance.

Managing directors

The council is supported by an office in terms of both organization and content. This takes place in particular in the preparation and implementation of council meetings and working groups and in communication. The current managing director is Dr. Ludovit Garzik; deputy managing director is Dr. Johannes Gadner.

Working method

In working groups and the council assembly, the council draws up recommendations for the federal government and ministers. The council meets several times a year and all recommendations are published on the council's website. In the past, recommendations related more to the financing of individual research programs of the various ministries and funding agencies; in the more recent history of the Council, it has increasingly developed into a strategic body and focuses on the development of RTD strategies. By recommending programs in particular, the RTD Council has decisively intervened in the design and configuration of the Austrian funding landscape. He has developed into a key player in research policy. Its recommendations are increasingly becoming the basis for funding decisions by funding institutions such as the FWF , the FFG and the National Foundation for Research and Technology Development. The council publishes an activity report every year. Since 2010, the Council has been drafting a report on Austria's scientific and technological performance on behalf of the Council of Ministers, which is submitted annually to the Austrian National Council on June 1st and which analyzes Austria's innovation performance and compares it with that of the leading countries in Europe.

See also

• European research area

Web links

• Homepage of the Council for Research and Technology Development
• Federal Act for the Promotion of Research and Technology Development (Research and Technology Promotion Act - FTFG) StF: Federal Law Gazette No. 434/1982
• Evaluation of the 2020 research strategy , ORF , May 14, 2009
• Discussion platform for participation in the "Research Strategy 2020"
• Court of Auditors report on the activities of the RTD Council , 20 December 2007
• Knut Consemüller: "We are a developing country" , Die Presse , August 26, 2007
• Research Council recommends distribution of almost 325 million euros , press release of November 17, 2004
• National Foundation approves EUR 127 million for 2005 , APA broadcast on December 13, 2004

Individual evidence

1. ↑ §17 Research and Technology Promotion Act
2. ↑ §17b Research and Technology Promotion Act
3. ↑ List of newly appointed councilors
4. ↑ Prorector Sylvia Schwaag Serger , University of Lund (in Swedish)
5. ^ Office of the Council for Research and Technology Development
6. ↑ Research Council develops “Strategy 2020”  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , ORF , August 17, 2009  
7. ↑ Activity reports of the Council since 2000 ( Memento of the original from August 20, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ^ Reports on the scientific and technological performance of Austria