Since its foundation in the year 1970, the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt (AAU) has successfully established itself as a distinctive voice reinforcing the canon of Austrian universities, as a globally networked research institution, and as a hub for the acquisition, exchange, and transfer of knowledge across the entire Alps-Adriatic Region.

The AAU is located in Carinthia, Austria’s southernmost province. Home to around 100,000 inhabitants. The proximity to Italy and Slovenia results in an atmosphere of intercultural exchange at the intersection between the Alpine and the Mediterranean culture.

The scientific achievements of the AAU advance the university’s growing national and international visibility. The AAU contributes to finding solutions for today’s vast challenges by pooling and strengthening various research fields. The establishment of the profile-enhancing research initiatives Energy Management & Energy Technology, Sustainability, Self-organizing Systems and Visual Culture allows holistic approaches and yields excellent research results. The projects carried out at the AAU serve as important impulse generators for the business location Carinthia.

Among its core strengths, the UNI-KLU can count the vast diversity of knowledge, range of methodologies, and disciplines, with which researchers are able to tackle research questions: This additionally yields a broad spectrum of outstanding research work, emerging from subject fields and from faculties alike. By defining its profile so carefully, the UNI-KLU is able to further expand its visibility and competitiveness within the international scientific community, and to earn recognition as an outstanding partner in cooperation relationships in national and international research networks.

Facts & Figures

• Founded in 1970
• 4 Faculties
• 37 departments
• 10.319 students
• 1795 international students
• 55 degree programmes
• 1500 members of staff
• 100.254 m2 net floor area

The AAU contributes to finding solutions for today’s vast challenges by pooling and strengthening various research fields.

Role

Within SemI40 an important role and contribution to the project is the WP lead of WP6. This Workpackage focuses on the fundamental issues of dissemination, exploitation standardization and communication. In this way, the main objectives are:

• Definition and execution of internal and external dissemination activities in order to make the research activities and the progress of technology development visible to interested scientific/business/media communities outside the project and to establish networking and knowledge platforms for public awareness.
• The definition and execution of exploitation strategies in order to ensure leveraging of the European semiconductor manufacturing science.

The execution of tasks in Agile Facility (WP2), Machine learning and automated decision making (WP3) and Use cases, technical and socio economic impact (WP5) will be supported with the expertise of UNI-KLU research team.

Key contribution

Among its core strengths, the UNI-KLU can count the vast diversity of knowledge, range of methodologies, and disciplines, with which researchers are able to tackle research questions: This additionally yields a broad spectrum of outstanding research work, emerging from subject fields and from faculties alike. By defining its profile so carefully, the UNI-KLU is able to further expand its visibility and competitiveness within the international scientific community, and to earn recognition as an outstanding partner in cooperation relationships in national and international research networks.

The department of production management and business logistic is the research unit that will be responsible for the project work. Several competitive national and international projects have been already executed by the department head.