WThe Association of Austrian Community Broadcasters is the alliance and lobbying group of the Austrian community radio and television stations. The association was founded in 1993 and has 16 members.
WGedenkdienst is the concept of facing and taking responsibility for the darkest chapters of one's own country's history while ideally being financially supported by one's own country's government to do so. Founded in Austria in 1992 by Dr. Andreas Maislinger the Gedenkdienst is an alternative to Austria's compulsory national military service as well as a volunteering platform for Austrians to work in Holocaust- and Jewish culture-related institutions around the world with governmental financial support. In Austria it is also referred to as Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service provided by the Austrian Service Abroad. The Austrian Gedenkdienst serves the remembrance of the crimes of Nazism, commemorates its victims and supports Jewish cultural future. The program is rooted in the acknoledgment of responsibility by the Austrian government for the crimes committed by National Socialism.
WThe Austrian Service Abroad is a non-profit organization founded by Dr. Andreas Maislinger in 1998 sending young Austrians to work in partner institutions worldwide serving Holocaust commemoration in form of the Gedenkdienst, supporting vulnerable social groups and sustainability initiatives in form of the Austrian Social Service and realizing projects of peace within the framework of the Austrian Peace Service. Its services aim at the permanence of life on earth. The Austrian Service Abroad carries and promotes the idea of the House of Responsibility for the birthplace of Adolf Hitler in Braunau am Inn. The Austrian Service Abroad is the issuer of the annually conferred Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award. The program is funded by the Austrian government.
WThe Austrian Student Aid Foundation is the second largest carrier of student housing in Austria.
WThe Austrian Students' Union by statutory body is the general students' representative body in Austria and serves as the students' government by federal law. The ÖH is member of European Students' Union.
WThe Austro-British Society (ABS) is a non-governmental organization that promotes the exchange between Austria and the United Kingdom. The Society was refounded in Vienna in 2009 by Kurt Tiroch and ever since supports the development of the bilateral relationship on cultural, economic and political topics.
WEurope Elects is a poll aggregator that collects and publishes election-related data such as opinion polls in European countries.
WFS1 is a non-commercial community television channel in Salzburg (Austria). Next to the Community TV okto in Vienna and dorf in Linz, it is the third non-commercial broadcaster with a 24-hour full program in Austria.
WThe House of Responsibility (HRB) in Braunau am Inn is the idea of establishing an international meeting place and a place of learning in the birth house of Adolf Hitler. People from all countries, backgrounds, religions and cultures should meet in order to discuss, learn and develop projects revolving around the concept of responsibility relating to the dimensions of past, present and future. The main demography shall be young people. The idea for a House of Responsibility originates from the founder of the Gedenkdienst and chairman of the Austrian Service Abroad Dr. Andreas Maislinger.
WThe International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) is an independent international research institute located in Laxenburg, near Vienna, in Austria. Through its research programs and initiatives, the institute conducts policy-oriented interdisciplinary research into issues too large or complex to be solved by a single country or academic discipline. This includes pressing concerns that affect the future of humanity, such as climate change, energy security, population aging, and sustainable development. The results of IIASA research and the expertise of its researchers are made available to policymakers in countries around the world to help them produce effective, science-based policies that will enable them to face these challenges.
WLicht ins Dunkel (German for "light into the dark") is an annual telethon held in Austria since 1973. The telethon is held every year on Christmas Eve for 14 hours on ORF2.
WThe Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP) is a Vienna-based international organisation that advances markets for renewable energy and energy efficiency with a particular emphasis on the emerging markets and developing countries. Its primary focus is in de-risking and scaling up clean energy business models.
WSalzburg Global Seminar is a non-profit organization that hosts programs on global topics as diverse as health care, education, culture, economics, geopolitics, LGBT issues, justice, and sustainability. Its objective is to "challenge present and future leaders to solve issues of global concern" through programs held at Schloss Leopoldskron, in Salzburg, Austria, and in other locations throughout the world. It has hosted more than 500 sessions, consisting of more than 30,000 participants from 169 countries, since its establishment in 1947.
WThe United European Gastroenterology (UEG) is a non-profit organisation combining European societies concerned with digestive health.
WThe Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw) is a non-partisan, non-profit economic research institute specialised in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe, based in Vienna, Austria. It was founded in 1972 and is currently headed by Mario Holzner.
WZweite Wiener Vereins-Sparcasse is an Austrian bank based in Vienna's Leopoldstadt district. The Bank für Menschen ohne Bank as a socially oriented bank is run exclusively by volunteers from Erste Bank and the Sparkassen group and does not aim for any profits.