About Eurasia-Pacific Uninet

The network was founded in the year 2000 and is strongly supported by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Science and Research and the Austrian Exchange Service (OeAD-GmbH).
With a total of 130 member institutions in Austria, China, Mongolia, Nepal, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, the Russian Federation, Bhutan, India, Nepal, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the Republic of Korea, the network promotes multilateral scientific cooperation, joint research projects, conferences as well as faculty and student exchange.
Eurasia-Pacific Uninet is the largest sovereign university network of its kind within Europe.

The goal of Eurasia-Pacific Uninet is to support interdisciplinary scientific exchange between its member institutions through

scholarships for Post Docs and Ph.D. students coming to Austria
projects
summer schools

Eurasia-Pacific Uninet

supports:

scientific, economic and cultural relations between Austria and the target countries
R&D activities of multinational companies
visiting professorships
reciprocal acknowledgement of study degrees and programs

supplies:

research scholarships for member institutions
contacts between government agencies, educational institutions and companies
intercultural expertise through intensive programs and courses

initiates:

joint research centers
joint schools for teaching, research and training
development of joint curricula and double-degree programs
research activities by means of workshops, seminars, conferences and through the exchange of scientists among member institutions

Association for the Support of Eurasia-Pacific Uninet

In March 2006, the Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Culture, together with the Agency for International Cooperation in Education and Research of the Austrian Exchange Service (ÖAD), established the Association for the Support of Eurasia-Pacific Uninet.

The aims of the Association for the Support

of Eurasia-Pacific Uninet are

to support the coordination and extension of the international network Eurasia-Pacific Uninet and its member institutions
to support the scientific, economic and cultural relations between Austria and the target countries of the international network Eurasia-Pacific Uninet
to support the process of internationalisation of research institutions at Austrian universities and institutes of applied sciences, within the framework of Eurasia-Pacific Uninet

The board members of the association are Univ. Prof. Dr. Brigitte Winklehner, president of Eurasia-Pacific Uninet and Univ. Prof. Dr. Sigurd Höllinger, representative of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Culture.