How can domestic top-level research be made tangible and visible? With this goal in mind, the new collaborative brochure from VRVis and SBA Research has been created. VRVis is Austria's leading research center in the field of visual computing and SBA Research is the largest institution for information security. In the joint 30-page brochure, the two COMET centers present their broad portfolio and also provide insights into important topics such as the promotion of young researchers, recruiting and diversity. In addition, important partners from politics, funding institutions and the business community are interviewed.
„We motivate companies to anchor research in their company even beyond joint projects. This is important for positioning Austria as a hub of international research and development.“
Gerd Hesina, CEO of VRVis
Preface of brochure
VRVis Zentrum für Virtual Reality und Visualisierung and SBA Research are the longest-standing COMET Centers in Vienna. Together we represent 35 years of innovative research from Austria. Since our founding years 2000 (VRVis) and 2006 (SBA), we are building a bridge from science to industry.
We support the domestic economy through know-how transfer: By translating the latest scientific findings into innovative solutions and visionary applications, we help companies to gain a technological edge. In this way, industry gets to know state-of-the-art technology, which it can independently develop further and incorporate into its products – we thus motivate our partners to anchor research in their companies, even beyond joint projects. At the same time, it is important to us to position Austria as a hub of international research and development; we therefore cooperate with many renowned institutions as well as national and international scientific partners.
In addition, we are constantly advancing our in-house basic research – around 20 patents, 40 awards and over 1,000 publications are just a few of the markers of our scientific excellence.
As an employer in Vienna, it is very important to us to set an example and act proactively in areas such as gender, diversity and corporate culture – together we employ around 170 highly specialized experts who contribute to the well-being of our society and to Austria's progress.
Last but not least, we see ourselves as having a special social responsibility and therefore invest in the promotion of young talent and science communication in order to anchor top level research in Austria and make it known internationally. Based on this claim, the brochure at hand was created through which we want to provide an insight into our diverse fields of research, as well as to convey the associated challenges and our accumulated know-how as competence centers.
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