Austrian Science Day

The Austrian Science Day is organised on the initiative of the Austrian Research Association and takes place every year on the Austrian National Day. Conceived as a representative gathering of highly qualified scholars, its participants sets aside professional and group interests in order to voice the concerns of the scientific community based on their experiences in research and scientific practice. Together they look for ways and means of realising these wishes and concerns. Moreover, the Austrian Science Day is also designed as a symposium with an interdisciplinary topic of general interest in order to analyse the situation of science and individual scientific disciplines in Austria. The results of the Science Day are usually published, since 1996 in the series “Wissenschaft – Bildung – Politik” (Science – Education – Politics (Böhlau publishers).