
Tasks and objectives
The commissions of the OeAW operate at the crossover point of science and society. They examine questions relevant to the science and society of today, concentrating on themes such as climate and air quality, biodiversity, migration and integration, cultural identities in times of globalisation and related questions of historical and cultural studies, as well as considering the role the sciences play in society. Through publications, public statements and events the commissions intensify the transfer of knowledge between research, politics and the public.
The commissions comprise OeAW members from a variety of disciplines as well as external experts. They are united by their interest in topics that cannot be examined satisfactorily in the context of research divided into separate disciplines. The commissions’ main aim is thus to define and develop new, innovative research fields and in so doing open up areas of research transcending the scientific institutions in Austria and the established canon of subjects around the world.
A further task of the commissions is the coordination of scientific exchange and research cooperation beyond the OeAW and Austria.
Commissions of the Division of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Commissions of the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences
- Commission for Migration and Integration Research
- Commission for the Legal History of Austria
- Schubert Research Center
- Study of Islam in Central Eurasia
- The North Atlantic Triangle: Social and Cultural Exchange between Europe, the USA and Canada
- Transformation of empire in ancient Afro-Eurasia
- Vanishing Languages and Cultural Heritage
Commissions of the Academy as a whole
- Commission for Cooperation with the Austrian Ministry of Defence
- Commission for Geographic Information Science
- Commission for Interdisciplinary Ecological Studies
- Commission for History and Philosophy of Sciences and Humanities
- Commission for Science Ethics
Commissions at the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- Austrian IIASA Committee
- Commission for the Coordination of Nuclear Fusion Research in Austria
- Österreichisches Fusionsforschungsprogramm Fusion@ÖAW
Institution at the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Projects of the Academy as a whole
Cooperations
- Academies for Global Innovation and Digital Ethics
- Plattform zeithistorischer Archive
- Austrian National Committee for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
- Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Kartographische Ortsnamenkunde