Austrian Education Minister Iris Rauskala recognized the work of three Austrian researchers who are based in the USA with the ASCINA Awards. At the end of the “Austrian Research and Innovation Talk” (ARIT) in New York, the computer scientists Manuel Egele and Johannes Reiter as well as the chemist Hannes Mikula received these awards for excellent research publications.

Which measures must political leaders now implement in order to maximise the positive effects and minimise the risks? Who will regulate the codes and algorithms that will hold sway over our lives in the future? Who will assume responsibility? At the invitation of the BMBWF and the FWF, international experts came together to discuss the latest developments and consequences at this year’s Alpbach Technology Symposium.

The Austrian Science Fund FWF, the Austrian Library Consortium (Kooperation E-Medien Österreich, KEMÖ) and Springer Nature have renewed their existing open access contract for Springer journals. The transformative agreement enables researchers and students in Austria to publish peer-reviewed research articles open access in more than 1,900 Springer journals without additional fees.

The FWF’s international expert jury confers the Wittgenstein Prize 2019 on the historian Philipp Ther and the microbiologist Michael Wagner. The jury selected the two top researchers from the University of Vienna from among 24 nominees. They will receive grants of 1.5 million euros each to enable them to further develop their cutting-edge research activities.

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