Tasks

OeAD stands for

›  Educational Mobility
›  European & International Cooperation
›  Lifelong Learning
›  Service & Information
›  Grants & Scholarships
›  Networks & Projects

The OeAD is the Austrian Agency for international mobility and cooperation in education, science and research.

The OeAD is in charge of international exchange of pupils, apprentices, students, lecturers and researchers and carries out international educational projects.

Our tasks: We

• administer programmes in education, training, science and mobility and internationalisation measures.
• support and advise the federal government in the conception and development of European and international initiatives.
• inform and advise institutions, in particular educational institutions, and Austrian representative authorities.
• offer services for mobility in European and international cooperations.
• promote Austria worldwide as an attractive location for education and research.
• administer programmes for collaboration in development cooperation.
• represent Austrian interests to European and international institutions on behalf of the federal government.
• inform the general public about European and international cooperation.
• support university courses to prepare students for supplementary examinations (University Preparation Programmes).
• support national authorities for international and European networks and transparency instruments.
• carry out programmes and measures of public and private providers of funds for an internationalisation of education.