Donau-City Strasse 1, 1220 Vienna
Vienna
Austria
- Heritage
The Safety & Security Department is making a significant contribution to ICT and is devoting concerted efforts to guaranteeing operational efficiency and reliability of all critical infrastructures – both private and public – especially in times of potential ecological, economic and political crisis.
We are committed to fostering the roll-out of national infrastructure as well as the deployment of state-of-the-art technologies in the area of public administration (eGovernment, eEnvironment, digital libraries), power grids, health care (eHealth), transportation networks, payment systems, telecommunications, Internet as well as the business and industrial sector with a view to positioning Austria at the forefront of the European ICT industry.
Safety & Security are the two important aspects of ever-increasing relevance for today’s citizens, which will also take centre stage in the information society of tomorrow.
The main research areas are „Intelligent Vision Systems“ on the basis of hard- and software engineering in due consideration for todays trends regarding miniaturization and integration on their dedication in critical infrastructures, „Highly Reliable Software and Systems“ with the focus on future testing and validation technologies for autonomous systems such as robots or intelligent driver assistance systems, as well as „Future Networks and Services“, where research focuses at maintaining the long-term safety and security of huge amounts of data as well as the security in distributed networks for digital libraries (Federation and Preservation of cultural heritage) and next generation health care (eHealth) and medical care systems (AAL).
We want to act as a "Force de Proposition" in the field of federation and preservation of Mediterranean heritage and link Austria with most of the Mediterranean countries we are working with.
Since 2 years we have been developing essential services for the federation and conservation of digital cultural contents in the context of the Union for the Mediterranean. The cultural objectives of the Anna Lindh foundation fit perfectly with our know-how and our philosophy regarding an equal dialague between the Mediterranean Countries.