Current projects

Gruppenfoto der Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmer der ETAC6 Konferenz

In June 2025, the first conference on global technology assessment took place in Vienna. TA experts from all continents contributed to the success of this three-day event. ITA now presents its main outcomes as an anthology comprising selected conference papers,…

EPTA 2026: Sustainable urban mobility

A graphic illustration in light and dark shades of green, showing a train, a bus, a car and a bicycle, as well as a cloud with ‘CO2’ written inside, wind turbines, solar panels and an electric vehicle charging point.

In cooperation with the other EPTA members, the ITA is contributing to the EPTA Report 2026 and analysing the current state of affairs and prospects for sustainable urban mobility from an Austrian perspective.

Shaping the Future with Advanced Biofuels

Chemical glass containers containing a green liquid (iStock: Toa55)

European Technology and Innovation Platform Bioenergy – Support of Renewable Fuels and Advanced Bioenergy Stakeholders

Digital, but humanistic

Fostering Austria's Innovative Strength and Research Excellence in Artificial Intelligence

CIRCEUS

Collage von Symbolen zum Thema Energie (iStockphoto)

A Circular Low Carbon EU Economy and the Global South

Digital transformation of public administration

Digitales Amt am Smartphone (Bahmer, ITA)

Opportunities, best practices, digital sovereignty, and social sustainability

NanoTrust-Beyond

Risk governance of nanomaterials and advanced materials

AI.D

Artificial Intelligence and the Shaping of Democracy

FAIR-AI

Fostering Austria's Innovative Strength and Research Excellence in Artificial Intelligence

Monitoring for the Austrian Parliament

Semiannual reports and short studies on current issues and trends as a service for parliamentarians

Rethinking food waste

ToNoWaste: Developing a holistic assessment for food waste prevention.

Name	Purpose	Storage duration	Type	Provider
CookieConsent	Remembers your consent to the use of cookies.	1 year	HTML	Web Consent
fe_typo_user	Assigns your browser to a session on the server. This only affects the content you see and is not evaluated or processed by us	-	HTTP	Web User

Name	Purpose	Storage duration	Type	Provider
_pk_id	Used to store a few details about the user like unique visitor ID.	13 months	HTML	Matomo-id
_pk_ref	Used to store information about the user's referring website.	6 months	HTML	Matomo-ref
_pk_ses	Short-term cookie to save temporary data from the visit.	30 minutes	HTML	Matomo-ses
_pk_cvar	Short-term cookie to save temporary data from the visit.	30 minutes	HTML	Matomo-cvar
_pk_hsr	Short lived cookie used to temporarily store data for the visit.	30 minutes	HTML	Matomo

Name	Purpose	Storage duration	Type	Provider
YouTube	A connection to YouTube will be established to view videos.	-	Connection	YouTube
SoundCloud	A connection to SoundCloud will be established to play audio files.	-	Connection	SoundCloud
Twitter	A connection to Twitter will be established to display tweets.	-	missing translation: type.	Twitter
_cs_c	Indicates whether the user has consented to ContentSquare tracking.	394 days	missing translation: type.	Spotify (ContentSquare)
_cs_id	Stores a unique user ID for ContentSquare session analysis.	394 days	missing translation: type.	Spotify (ContentSquare)
_ga	Used to distinguish users.	400 days	missing translation: type.	Google Analytics
_ga_BMC5VGR8YS	Used by Google Analytics to persist session state.	400 days	missing translation: type.	Google Analytics
_ga_S0T2DJJFZM	Used by Google Analytics to persist session state.	399 days	missing translation: type.	Google Analytics
_ga_ZWG1NSHWD8	Used by Google Analytics to persist session state.	400 days	missing translation: type.	Google Analytics
_ga_ZWRF3NLZJZ	Used by Google Analytics to persist session state.	400 days	missing translation: type.	Google Analytics
_gid	Used to distinguish users.	1 days	missing translation: type.	Google Analytics
_ScCbts	Stores temporary session or playback preferences.	6 days	missing translation: type.	Spotify
_scid	Spotify advertising ID used for analytics and retargeting.	395 days	missing translation: type.	Spotify
_scid_r	Spotify advertising ID used for analytics and retargeting.	395 days	missing translation: type.	Spotify
eupubconsent-v2	Stores the IAB Transparency & Consent Framework string.	364 days	missing translation: type.	IAB / Spotify
OptanonAlertBoxClosed	Saves the state of your data protection consent.	364 days	missing translation: type.	OneTrust
OptanonConsent	Saves the state of your data protection consent.	365 days	missing translation: type.	OneTrust
sp_adid	Spotify advertising identifier.	365 days	missing translation: type.	Spotify
sp_landing	Tracks which page the user landed on within Spotify.	1 days	missing translation: type.	Spotify
sp_m	Stores the user’s market region (Spotify).	399 days	missing translation: type.	Spotify
sp_t	Session token used for Spotify playback and access.	365 days	missing translation: type.	Spotify

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