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hinterland

National Network
النمسا
Address

Krongasse 20
1050 Vienna
النمسا

Telephone
+43 1 58 123 59
E-Mail
franziska@hinterland.ag
E-Mail (2)
art@hinterland.ag
Organisation Type
Non-Governmental Organization
Year of Establishment
2014
Fields of Activity
  1. Arts
General Information
Hinterland is an art space which organises exhibitions of contemporary art from artists concerned with middle eastern cultures. The head of the organization is Gudrun Wallenböck, who is working together with three to four assistants - most of whom are students of art history. Besides this core team there are various artists who are related to the art space as well as a few international cooperation partners in Turkey, Iran, Irak, Pakistan, Syria and Marokko... There is no certain budgetary as hinterland has to apply for funding of the basic expanses again every year at the Federal Chancellery of Austria. Furthermore hinterland tries to find fundings for each single project.  
Mission and Objectives

By creating contemporary art exhibitions which bring middle eastern cultures into discusson hinterland is looking for new multidisciplinary approaches: not a typical “white cube“ gallery but a direct confrontation with art, culture, sociology, history and the present. It seeks international cultural exchange to deepen mutual understanding, break barriers and bring people together. An interdisciplinary art space for intercultural and intersocial communication: art as a universal language.
Hinterland wants to act as an intermediary for establishing an international cultural dialogue far from stereotypes : to build bridges that will allow insights into the cultural and artistic live in mostly unknown regions, namly an exchange between East and West.

Main Projects / Activities

The main activities of hinterland are the creation and the curating of exhibitions the research in certain fields as well as the organisation of international cooperations in order to bring exhibitions to Austria or to show exhibitions abroad. In addition to that hinterland is organising events like artist talks, concerts, artist studio visits, workshops or lectures.
Examples of succesfull projects are:
1) Where are We?
Artists (most of them living in Austrian) are invited to work on their personal understanding of identity: their personal perception or their historical and/or image of a “national” identity.
Artists: Azra Akšamija, Vooria Aria, Carla Degenhardt, Siegfried A. Fruhauf, Clemens Krauss, Constantin Luser/Stefan Arztmann, Lisl Ponger, Frenzi Rigling, Gabriele Sturm, Niko Wahl, Nives Widauer/Ilma Rakus
shown in Tehran (Iran) 2015, Vienna (Austria) 2015, Lahore (Pakistan) 2016, Islamabad (Pakistan) 2016
2) Being Kurdish
"Being kurdish" was the title of a group exhibtion which gathered reflections on kurdish identity through art. The project brought together a huge variety of backgrounds of the artist as well as variety of media.
The aim was to include artists from the different geographical regions of Kurdistan, artists with Kurdish
roots who emigrated as well as artists with no Kurdish roots. All of them realized works of various media that reflect, deconstruct, study, try to understand or tell personal stories on the question "What does it meen to be Kurdish?".
3) Restrictions of the Earth
Characteristics of life on earth transform completely and the sense of belonging is damaged or extinct due to the dynamism of people between geography and culture. The yearning for a world without restrictions has become a struggle for survival in the form of physical and bureaucratic boundaries. This “rootlessness” triggers creativity in the mould of resistance and expressive forms. How do distance and coordinates, memory and historical perception, identification and habits, yearnings and hope, encapsulate themselves within artistic expression? The exhibition ‘Restrictions of the Earth’ engages artists whom first hand have experienced the socio-dynamic shift.
Artists: Osman Kader Ahmed, Vooria Aria, Khadija Baker, Adel Dauood, Niştiman Erdede, Murat Gök, Bahram Hajou, Fatoş Irwen, Azad Nanakeli, Şefik Özcan, Walid Siti

How can you contribute to the Network in your country?

As the main aim of hinterland is to provide intercultural exchange also with non European countries in the Mediterranean area like Marokko, Turkey or Aegypt to only name a few it goes hand in hand with the objectives of the Anna Lindth-Foundation.

Why do you want to join the ALF Network?

We hope that by joining the ALF we get new ideas and possibilities for international cooperations as well as the chance for proper fundings for our projects. Unfortunately it is very hard to convince local government who is giving most of the grants in Austria of the importance of intercultural work. We hope that an internatioanl network that is sharing our aim like the ALF can support us.

Contact (1) Full Name
Franziska Niemand
Job Title
Assistant
Head of the organisation
Gudrun Wallenböck
Contact (2) Full Name
Gudrun Wallenböck
Job Title (2)
artistic director

Höhere Bundeslehranstalt und Fachschule für wirtschaftliche Berufe Kufstein (HLW Kufstein)

National Network
النمسا
Address

August Scherl Str. 1
Kufstein
النمسا

Telephone
0043-5372-64147
E-Mail
breaking-the-stereotype2009-2010@gmx.at
Organisation Type
Public Institution
Fields of Activity
  1. Youth and education
General Information
1.vocational highschool, 60 teachers 2.practically no resources for activities outside of teaching matters 3.Funding available only for teaching 4.teaching; occasional EU projects; UNESCO member school 5. UNESCO; EU
Mission and Objectives

As a UNESCO member school HLW Kufstein is devoted to intercultural and democratic teaching approaches.

Main Projects / Activities

SODA Project
UNESCO member school activities

Contact (1) Full Name
Dr. Veronika Bernard
Head of the organisation
Hofrätin Mag. Friederike Fuchsberger
Contact (2) Full Name
Mag. Ursula Neumayer

IDC - Organisation for International Dialogue and Conflict Management

National Network
النمسا
Address

IDC
Kaiserstrasse 50/6
1070

Vienna
النمسا

Telephone
+43 1 9900811
Fax
+43 1 9900811
E-Mail
info@idialog.eu
Organisation Type
Non-Governmental Organization
Year of Establishment
2002
Fields of Activity
  1. Environment/Sustainable development
General Information
IDC is an interdisciplinary association of scientists from a variety of different scholarly disciplines, such as physics, biology, social and political sciences. IDC is a non-profit, non-partisan research organisation, established under Austrian Law of Associations with its headquarter in Vienna. IDC established several working groups for effective implementation of activities such as EU-Africa WG, energy safety WG or bio-safety WG. The ressources available are some hundred thousands EUR in a year. Sources of fundings are national and international state programmes for research. Projects are related to science communications, technology assessment, risk research, foresight studies using different methodologies such as data mining, statistical reviews, interview series, stakeholder workshops, policy analysis and statement collections etc. Main partners involved in the organization's projects are Universities, non-state research organisations, CSOs, business, media and state institutions from Europe and all over the world with focus on developing and transition states.
Mission and Objectives

Since 2002 it has been possible to further strengthen the interdisciplinary nature of IDC by collecting a creative and innovative think tank in the fields of natural sciences, social sciences, and media work. The aim of IDC is to promote the dialogue and exchange in science and research, whereas the main focus is set on current social and technical transformations, its evolution and its social and environmental impacts, in view of preventing and resolving consequential conflicts. In this regard, IDC is active in supporting and furthering the analysis of these agenda, in strengthening international scientific cooperation and asserting the perception, acceptance and understanding of innovative and emerging technologies (e.g. in energy and biotechnology) by different stakeholders and by non-scientific society.

Main Projects / Activities

Selection of running and completed projects:
- CIVI.NET (The capacity of civil society organisations and their networks in community based environmental management), EU FP7
- SustainergyNet (Integrating Civil, scientific and stakeholder knowlegde), EU FP7, EU-Africa
- Cambiodiversity (Promoting biodiversity conservation in Cambodia), OeAD KEF
- TARPOL (Targeting environmental pollution with engineered microbial systems a la carte)
- Converging Technologies, BMVIT Austria
- COSY (Communicating synthetic biology), GEN-AU Genome research in Austria
- Investigating the biosafety and risk assessment needs of synthetic biology in Austria and China, Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
- Agrofolio (Benefiting from an increased agricultural portfolio in Asia) EU FP6

How can you contribute to the Network in your country?

IDC is able to support the ALF network by:
- Initiation of and participation in projects related to sustainable development
- bridging the gap between science and society by publications, stakeholder workshops and events
- Involving partners in actual project proposals and applications
Main focus would be sustainable energy supply and consumption in developing Mediteranean regions, setting up public particiapation processes in infrastructure and spatial planning. Green cities technology implementation, civil society involvement in energy projects, socioeconomic research and technology assessment of renewable energies (small and large), transfer of good practice.

Why do you want to join the ALF Network?

ALF network offers the possibility to:
- identify new partners for common projects and activities
- getting into contact with local and regional players in Northern Africa to improve and apply developed methodologies in civil society driven sustainable development with main topic energy and infrastructure
- to strengthen the development agenda in Austrian an European policies by competent analyses and advice
- intensification of knowledge transfer and exchange programmes mainly with/for young scientists

Contact (1) Full Name
Dr. Angela Meyer
Head of the organisation
Dr. Angela Meyer
Contact (2) Full Name
Gregor Giersch

Ideaz. Platform for Intercultural and Comparative Research

National Network
النمسا
Address

Zirkusgasse 27/16
A – 1020 Vienna
النمسا

Fax
+ 43 (0)72033203797
E-Mail
office@ideaz-institute.com
E-Mail (2)
Johannes.Maerk@ideaz-institute.com
Mobile Phone
+ 43 (0)664 5174742
Organisation Type
Non-Governmental Organization
Year of Establishment
2005
Fields of Activity
  1. International/Cultural relations
  2. Research
General Information
1. Network structure: two full-time researchers. We hire research staff according to the needs of our projects. 2. The budgetary resources depend on the projects that we acquire during a year. 3. Private and public sponsoring. 4. Seminars, research projects, academic meetings 5. We have co-operated with the Swiss and Canadian Embassies in Vienna and with the Vienna Institute for Development and Cooperation
Mission and Objectives

Ideaz is a non-profit association in Vienna (Austria) aiming to provide a bringing-together of academics, intellectuals, and cultural workers from the South (mainly from the Arab/Muslim World, Asia, Africa and Latin America) and the industrialized countries in the North. The intention is to offer a space that can serve as a truly translocal and transnational place of critical and self-critical ideas, projects and perspectives. Thus, Ideaz supports a discourse of knowledge that is not limited to the established trajectories of scientific knowledge between the “northern” countries (Western Europe, North America and Japan), but explicitly incorporates representatives from often neglected “Southern” places. Especially for this second group of persons – established as well as junior scholars and artists – Ideaz will offer the possibility of intercultural encounters in Austria

Main Projects / Activities

1. Research Projects on intercultural and comparative issues in the following fields of research
• Modernity and Technology in an intercultural perspective.
The expected outcome is the analysis of different cultural concepts and approaches to modernity and technology from a southern perspective.
• Reactions of civil society to the challenges of globalization in a comparative perspective
Research will focus on the role of civil society in an increasingly connected world with special emphasis on “southern“ countries and the uneven relationships between North and South.
2. (Co-)organisation of conferences and lectures

Contact (1) Full Name
Johannes Mark
Head of the organisation
Johannes Mark
Contact (2) Full Name
Christian Sushi

IHS (Institut für Höhere Studien)

National Network
النمسا
Address

Josefstädter Straße 39, 1080 Vienna
1080 Vienna
النمسا

Telephone
+43-1-59991-272
Telephone (other)
-
Fax
+43-1-59991-555
E-Mail
parzer@ihs.ac.at
E-Mail (2)
parzer@ihs.ac.at
E-Mail (3)
parzer@ihs.ac.at
E-Mail (4)
parzer@ihs.ac.at
Mobile Phone
-
Mobile Phone (other)
-
Organisation Type
Non-Governmental Organization
Year of Establishment
1963
Fields of Activity
  1. Environment/Sustainable development
  2. Gender
  3. Research
General Information
The Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS) is an independent, non-profit research institute in Vienna (Austria). It brings together high-level expertise from various disciplines (economics, sociology, and political science, among others) to address fundamental economic and social problems and policy choices. Internationally renowned scientists stay at the Institute as guest researchers, and PhD candidates use its excellent facilities to conduct their studies. IHS alumni make career in academia, governmental institutions, and in the private sector. The IHS was incepted in 1963 under the auspices of two esteemed scholars, Paul F. Lazarsfeld and Oskar Morgenstern with a generous grant from the Ford Foundation. Today, the Institute is funded by the Austrian government, by various public organizations and by commissioned research. IHS has coordinated and participated in numerous projects within the EU Framework Programs and has extensive experience in disseminating research results. Currently the Institute counts approximately 100 employees.
Mission and Objectives

The Institute for Advanced Studies is an independent, non-profit research Institute covering the areas of Economics, Political Science, and Sociology. Since its inception in 1963 the IHS has been, and continues to be, committed to the highest quality standards of research and postgraduate education. The Institute strives for top performance internationally in the following areas: - Theoretical and empirical cutting-edge research with socio-political and economic policy relevance; - Scientific policy advice based on rigorous empirical and theoretical foundations in Economics, Political Science, and Sociology; - Informing the public about fundamental economic and social problems and policy choices.

Main Projects / Activities

IHS undertakes studies on various topics like eg pension reform, health, migration, gender, environment, sustainable development,...

How can you contribute to the Network in your country?

IHS can support research and academic work on issues related to Mediterranean identity and intercultural dialogue.

Why do you want to join the ALF Network?

IHS can provide scientfic support for activities in fields which are essential for human and social dialogue: education, youth, gender, migration, health, environment.

Contact (1) Full Name
Sylvia Karl-Parzer
Head of the organisation
Martin Kocher
Contact (2) Full Name
-

Individual member: Dr. Tarek Eltayeb

National Network
النمسا
Address

Zieglergasse 57/25
A – 1070 Vienna
النمسا

Telephone
+ 43 (0)1 5221867
Fax
+ 43 (0)1 5221867
E-Mail
tarek@eltayeb.at
E-Mail (2)
eltayeb@utanet.at
Organisation Type
Individual Person
Fields of Activity
  1. Arts
General Information
Eltayeb lives since 1984 in Vienna; he financed his studies at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration with various jobs (newspaperman, fly sheet distributor, dish washer, language teacher, later as translator and interpreter); doctoral dissertation at the Institute for Economic Philosophy on “Der Transfer von Ethik durch Technologie im Kampf zwischen Identit?t und Profit”; in 1997, doctoral degree in Social and Economic Sciences. Eltayeb is currently professor at the International Management Center/University of Applied Sciences in Krems. Since1985, Eltayeb also works as a writer.
Mission and Objectives

NA

Main Projects / Activities

NA

Contact (1) Full Name
Dr. Tarek Eltayeb

Individual member: Sini Coreth

National Network
النمسا
Address

Rappoltenreith 17
A – 3662 Münichreith
النمسا

Telephone
+ 43 (0)7413 7071
Fax
+ 43 (0)7413 7071/14
E-Mail
sinicoreth@aon.at
Organisation Type
Individual Person
Fields of Activity
  1. Arts
  2. International/Cultural relations
  3. Media
General Information
Freelance artist born in Vienna and lives in Lower Austria. Studies: Ossip Zadkine, Paris (France); Graphische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt, Vienna (Austria); Galerie Der Spiegel MAT Production, Cologne (Germany); Kazuko Ohno, Anzu Furukawa Butoh Dance, Tokio (Japan); School of the Art Institute of Chicago (USA); Studies in film and video cutting, Vienna (Austria).
Mission and Objectives

To create a cultural bridge between the Middle East and Europe with the goal to come on equal terms of understanding and respect through intercultural exhibitions and different art events and projects in all artistic fields.
To search for a dialogue with “the Opposite, the Foreign and the Different” in exhibitions with Arab artists from Yemen, Oman, Austria and other Islamic countries.

Main Projects / Activities

Artistic collaboration for:
2005 LABYRINTH TRAP: 4 Arab and 4 European artists exhibit together in DokuCenter St. P?lten, Austria
2005 LABYRINTH of LANGUAGE: Arab and Turkish writers in dialogue with the Austrian public
2004 MOCHA MOCCA: Jemeni and Austrian artists exhibit in Sanaa, Cultural City of the Arab World, Sanaa, Jemen
2004 LITTORAL: Austrian Omani Exhibition in OSFA, Qaboos University, Barka Castle, Muscat, Oman
2004 Frankfurt Bookfair Omani stand – video: collaboration of Omani writer, German composer and Austrian video artist, Frankfurt, Germany
Construction of video films on computer

Contact (1) Full Name
Sini Coreth

individual person

National Network
النمسا
Address

Penzingerstr. 115/9
1140 Wien
النمسا

Telephone
0678 1215164
E-Mail
puschbarbara@gmail.com
Organisation Type
Individual Person
Year of Establishment
1990
Fields of Activity
  1. International/Cultural relations
  2. Religion
  3. Research
  4. Youth and education
General Information
I studied Sociology, Turkology, Philosophy and Ethnology at the University of Vienna, completing a Master’s thesis on Turkish girls in Vienna in 1991. After successfully completing a PhD thesis on the green movement in Turkey, which I submitted to the University of Vienna in 1996 and conducting several post-doc projects on women and Islam in Turkey between 1997 and 2000, I have been working on various issues related to migration movements to and through Turkey for approximately 15 years. Migration has not only shaped my personal life after graduation but has also become the main issues of my academic profile. In this context, I have been involved in several international and interdisciplinary projects.
Mission and Objectives

My main fields of research are: - women and islam - social and political change in Turkey - new social movements - migration. During the last years I mainly focused on migration issues.

Main Projects / Activities

My post-doc research on migration concentrates on five subjects: (1) German citizens in Turkey, (2) Turkey as a target country for migration, (3) migration and labor market integration of highly qualified migrants, (4) (re)migration from Germany to Turkey and (5) German-Turkish transnationalization.

Contact (1) Full Name
Barbara Pusch
Job Title
sociologist
Head of the organisation
individual person

Initiative Minderheiten (Initiative for Miniorities)

National Network
النمسا
Address

Gumpendorfer Str. 15/13, 1060 Wien / Vienna
Vienna
النمسا

Telephone
0043 1 966 90 01
Telephone (other)
0043 1 966 90 02
E-Mail
kogoj@initiative.minderheiten.at
E-Mail (2)
stimme@initiative.minderheiten.at
Organisation Type
Non-Governmental Organization
Year of Establishment
1991
Fields of Activity
  1. Human rights
General Information
* 5 emploees * Euro 250.000,- * ESF, Ministry of Education, The City of Vienna * Exhibition "Romane Thana - Orte der Roma" (Wien Museum 2014), ROMBAS-Romabildungs- und ausbildungsstudie (2013-2014), Symposium "Mehrsprachigkeit in Wien historisch betrachtet" (2013), Zeitschrift STIMME (quarterly), Radio STIMME * Romano Centro, Verein Romaservice, Wien Museum, Landesmuseum Burgenland, Arbeiterkammer Wien, VHS Wien etc.
Mission and Objectives

Since 1991, Initiative Minderheiten has been advocating for and contributing to creating a society that acknowledges and affords equal treatment and equal rights to minorities in their individual life concepts regardless of their ethnic, social or religious affiliation, sexual orientation or dis/ability. A society can only be considered to have acknowledged minority rights if it facilitates and supports different life concepts in a fair and equal manner. Initiative Minderheiten works towards creating minority alliances.
IM defines a minority as people who experience discrimination based on their ethnic, social or religious affiliation, sexual orientation or dis/ability. Politically, discrimination means excluding certain people from certain rights; socially, it means experiencing prejudices and exclusions. This definition is not based on a group’s number of members, but rather on their lack of power in comparison to that of the hegemonic majority.

Main Projects / Activities

Exhibition "Gastarbajteri - 40 Jahre Arbeitsmigration" (Gastarbajteri - 40 Years of Labor Migration, Wien Museum and Hauptbücherei 2004), www.gastarbajteri.at

How can you contribute to the Network in your country?

* with our magazine STIMME
* with our radio programm Radio STIMME
* with our newwsletter
* with facbook

Why do you want to join the ALF Network?

* communication
* projects

Contact (1) Full Name
Cornelia Kogoj
Head of the organisation
Vienna
Contact (2) Full Name
Gamze Ongan

Institut Afro-Asiatique de Vienne (Afro-Asian institute of Vienna )

National Network
النمسا
Address

Türkenstra?e 3
A – 1090 Vienne
النمسا

Telephone
+ 43 (0)1 310 51 45/311
Telephone (other)
+ 43 (0)1 310 51 45/210
Fax
+ 43 (0)1 310 51 45/312
E-Mail
office@aai-wien.at
E-Mail (2)
mb.eder@aai-wien.at
Organisation Type
Public/Private Non-Profit Foundation
Year of Establishment
1959
Fields of Activity
  1. Arts
  2. Democracy and community development
  3. Environment/Sustainable development
  4. Gender
  5. Heritage
  6. International/Cultural relations
  7. Religion
  8. Youth and education
General Information
A board of directors supervises the contents of the activities of the institute as well as the management committee which manages the general affairs of the institute. An economic and administrative sector which manages the general affairs of the institute; as well as another sector which is occupied of the cultural activities, scholarships and social affairs. 2. Figures of annual affairs : approximately € 800.000, 3. Private subsidies of the State, incomes of housing rental 4. Scholarships for students coming from Africa, Asia and Latin America. Residences and restoration for students, intercultural and inter religious meetings. Gallery, vault, mosque and
Mission and Objectives

The Afro-Asian Institute of Vienna is a centre of dialogue between the nations. It was founded in 1959 sponsored by of the Cardinal Franz Kanig, former archbishop of Vienna.
The Afro-Asian institute is a place of oecumenical, inter religious and intercultural dialogue. It constitutes a real Afro-Asian world located at the centre of Vienna .

Main Projects / Activities

. Scholarships for students from Africa , Asia , Latin America
. Residences and restoration for students .
. Centre of studies and practical information concerning the Afro-Asian world .
. study hall and cafeteria
. vault, mosque and Hindu temple

Contact (1) Full Name
Dr. Maria-Beate Eder
Head of the organisation
Recteur Konstantin Spiegelfeld
Contact (2) Full Name
Nikolaus Heger