Every year, the Greek Ministry of Culture issues six permits for Austrian field research, three of which are national excavation licences and the other three are assigned to Greek-Austrian collaborations.
The OeAI's current excavation projects are localised in the northern and western Peloponnese: they are dedicated to the settlement history of Lousoi in the mountains of Arcadia, the diachronic research of the settlement site of Aigeira on the Corinthian Gulf and the small Hellenistic town of Leontion in the hinterland of Achaia. A new project was started in Kleidi-Samikon on the west coast of the Peloponnese, where an important sanctuary of Poseidon was located at a strategically neuralgic site. In 2020, a geophysical survey was carried out in Kontopigado.
The OeAI Athens also organises the approvals for projects by Austrian universities: These include the Aegina project of the University of Salzburg and the excavations at Pheneos, which were carried out by the University of Graz in cooperation with the Ephorate of Corinthia from 2011-2015.