AUSTRIA
Abteilung
Politische Wissenschaften Institut für Höhere Studien – IHS
Bundesministerium
für Unterricht und Kulturelle Angelegenheiten
European Centre for
Social Welfare Policy and Research
Institut für Anglistik
Institut für
Erziehungswissenschaften und Bildungsforschung
Institut für Politik Wissenschaft
Institut für die
Wissenschaften vom Menschen – IWM
International
Helsinki Federation for Human Rights – IHF
Ludwig Boltzmann
Institut für Menschenrechte – BIM
Viennese Fund for
Integration (Wiener Integrations Fonds)
Zentrum für Schulversuche und
Schulentwicklung
ABTEILUNG
POLITISCHE WISSENSCHAFTEN INSTITUT FÜR HÖHERE STUDIEN – IHS
Stumpergasse 56, A-1060 Vienna
Tel.: ++43 1 59991176
Fax: ++43 1 59991171
E-mail: gachter@ihs.ac.at
Website: www.ihs.ac.at
Contact: August Gächter
The Institute for Advanced Studies is engaged in research which focuses on issues concerning Europe, migration, citizenship, labour market and employment. Recent research programmes include work on the legal integration of other nationals in eight European Union countries.
Postgraduate training courses are offered in political science and the Institute publishes a regular newsletter and working papers.
BUNDESMINISTERIUM
FÜR UNTERRICHT UND KULTURELLE ANGELEGENHEITEN
This Department of the Ministry is engaged in support for school pupils whose mother tongue is other than German (basically migrant and refugee children). Intercultural education was introduced as a so-called ‘educational principle’ in the academic year 1991/92.
EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR
SOCIAL WELFARE POLICY AND RESEARCH
The Centre has a research programme on migration which began in 1992. The Centre works on both the social and the cultural dimensions of integration, looking at theories of cultural pluralism and comparing social integration policies and their results in different immigration countries. It also studies the effects of the policies of receiving countries on the origins, size and composition of new immigration and on the transformation of emigration potentials into flows.
The Institute carries out research in the field of linguistics and culture. Current research includes work on national and ethnic relations in literature, national images and stereotypes, and multiculturalism. The Institute runs both undergraduate and postgraduate courses and produces a series of monographs in English.
INSTITUT FÜR
ERZIEHUNGSWISSENSCHAFTEN UND BILDUNGSFORSCHUNG
The Institute’s research is focused on south-east and north-east Europe. Current research includes living conditions of ethnic minorities, migrants, and educational provision for ethnic minorities and migrants.
INSTITUT FÜR POLITIKWISSENSCHAFT
Universität Innsbruck
Innrain 52, Christoph-Probst-Platz, A-6020 Innsbruck
Website: www.uibk.ac.at
INSTITUT FÜR DIE
WISSENSCHAFTEN VOM MENSCHEN – IWM
Spittelaure Lände 3, A-1090 Vienna
Tel.: ++43 1 313580
Fax: ++43 1 3135830
E-mail: iwm@iwm.univie.ac.at
Website: www.univie.ac.at/iwm/
Contact: Michaela Adelberger
The Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) was established in 1982 in order to bring together academics and intellectuals from Eastern and Western Europe – their ideas, their experiences and projects – into a common discussion aimed at furthering the development of innovative concepts. The IWM seeks to influence more than the exchange of ideas: Its scholarly work and research are ultimately oriented towards a practical purpose – to change the society they reflect on. The Institute's scholarly activities provide the intellectual basis for its policy-oriented programmes; and the latter connect scholarly analysis, reflection and discussion at the IWM with the social, political, and intellectual problems of the region.
IWM is an institute for advanced study supported by a community of scholars consisting of Permanent Fellows, Visiting and Junior Visiting Fellows, as well as Non-Resident Permanent Fellows. It hosts about 20 Visiting Fellows during each term, who come from all over the world to spend at least a semester at the Institute. Research at the Institute is currently centred on four fields, each of which is overseen by a Permanent Fellow: Political Philosophy of the 19th and 20th Centuries; Gender Studies; Rethinking Post-War Europe; Political and Social Transformation in Central and Eastern Europe.
After 1989 the Institute incorporated a new social-political dimension into its activities in order to support the reconstruction of civil society in the former communist countries of East-Central Europe. To this end, it established two long-term policy-oriented programmes: Social Costs of Economic Transformation in Central Europe/ Transformation of the National Higher Education and Research Systems of Central Europe. Under the auspices of its research fields and programmes, IWM regularly invites a number of Senior and Junior Visiting Fellows as well as Guest Scholars, mainly from Western and Eastern Europe and the United States, to spend six months in residence at the Institute and work together with the Permanent Fellows. Research is accompanied by regular seminars which offer a place for discussion and attract a wide academic audience.
Within the framework of its Translation Program (established in 1987), IWM awards a series of Visiting Fellowships each year to support the translation of major works in the humanities or social sciences between Eastern and Western European languages. The Milena Jesenská Fellowships for Journalists, established in 1998, in cooperation with Project Syndicate, are awarded to enable journalists from Europe to work in Vienna on long-term projects of their own choice.
The IWM library currently has more than 30,000 volumes and subscribes to 240 periodicals. The composition of the collection reflects the fields of research and ongoing projects of IWM in the humanities and social sciences. It places special emphasis on issues related to Central and Eastern Europe. The IWM library is an open-stack, non-lending facility primarily designed for the use of IWM Fellows and Guests, but it is also open to the general public upon request.
The Institute’s website carries details of its many publications including the regular newsletter.
INTERNATIONAL
HELSINKI FEDERATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS – IHF
Rummelhardtgasse 2/18, A-1090 Vienna
Tel.: ++43 1 4027387/4088822
Fax: ++43 1 4087444
E-mail: helsinki@ping.at
Website: www.ihf-hr.org
Director: Aaron Rhodes
The International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights is developing a comprehensive programme to monitor compliance with the human rights provisions of the Dayton Peace Agreement, including those provisions related to the repatriation of refugees and displaced persons. This programme will be undertaken in cooperation with the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a member of the IHF, along with other Helsinki Committees in Europe and North America.
LUDWIG BOLTZMANN
INSTITUT FÜR MENSCHENRECHTE – BIM
Berggasse 7, A-1090 Vienna
Tel.: ++43 1 3174020
Fax: ++43 1 3174022
E-mail: apc@link-atv&bim
Director: M. Novak
The Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights has been engaged in the following research projects: ‘Country reports on the legal and factual situation of human rights in selected countries’, ‘Ethnic cleansing in Bosnia-Herzegovina’; ‘Implementation of international standards for the prevention of torture in Austria’, ‘Rights to education and freedom of education’. The Institute also offers courses on the international protection of Human Rights which cover international, as well as universal and regional, standard-setting instruments; verification and control procedures in relation to human rights including the United Nations and its specialised agencies along with regional level bodies; human rights violations; human rights education; protection of special groups; rights of the child, women’s rights, minority rights, refugee rights and rights of handicapped individuals; and human rights and development cooperation.
VIENNESE FUND FOR
INTEGRATION (WIENER INTEGRATIONS FONDS)
ZENTRUM FÜR SCHULVERSUCHE UND
SCHULENTWICKLUNG