Austria in ITEA

The Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) is the national funding agency for industrial research and development in Austria. Research, development and innovation are central drivers for economic, technological and social development, and about 59% of FFG funding goes to projects with a strong focus on digitalisation. FFG supports instruments like ITEA to boost progress in Austria on the premise that businesses that undertake research grow faster, achieve higher export rates and create more employment than those who don’t.

On this webpage, you will find an overview of activities and publications of Austria in ITEA. It provides valuable insights into the potential benefits of participating in an ITEA project and whether ITEA could be a fit for your organisation. You can also find information regarding the funding opportunities and the national funding contact details.

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Impact stories with Austrian participation

Impact is one of the main ambitions in ITEA. Impact on business, on the market, on society. This is a key value in ITEA, and impact and potential impact are central during the project lifecycle: in project evaluation, monitoring, closure and in communication of the results. With the (financial) support of national Public Authorities, many ITEA projects have achieved incredible results, which are gathered in ITEA Impact stories.

VMAP

VMAP Impact story

01 December 2023

A wide range of computer-aided engineering (CAE) software tools already enables virtual material and product design, virtual manufacturing and machining process parameterisation, and virtual product testing of high-tech materials. However, these tools are rarely interoperable and contain multiple native formats for storing the CAE data to be transferred between simulation code. The VMAP project has created the world’s first CAE workflow interface standard for integrating multidisciplinary and multi-software simulation processes in the manufacturing industry and its major result is simple: setting up and adapting workflows in computer-aided engineering is now quicker, easier and more cost-effective than ever before.

STARLIT

STARLIT Impact story

01 December 2023

The global incidence rate of cancer is expected to grow by 70% over the next two decades, with Radiation Therapy (RT) treatment currently recommended for 52% of new patients. Although radiation oncology has caused a drop in mortality for several cancers, the need remains to reduce side effects. The solution lies in ‘first-time-right’ treatment in which the right dose is given to the tumour while keeping the dose to healthy tissue as low as possible. STARLIT - a follow-up to the award-winning ITEA project SoRTS developed technology to improve treatment accuracy and minimise the unintended dose in image-guided radiation therapy.

ACOSAR

ACOSAR Impact story

11 December 2020

The development of vehicles has become increasingly complex, involving over 50 different suppliers who need to ensure that all components, parts and devices work together. Modelling and simulation represent key methods for a successful development. To facilitate this, the introduction of co-simulation methodologies and the interoperability of simulation tools and infrastructure had already taken root. But there was no standardised way of integrating distributed simulation and test environments back in 2015. In the ACOSAR project was set up to accelerate development steps with new simulation technologies.

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Statements from Austrian partners

ITEA is certainly an environment to be in if you want to be innovative in the software domain. And we have learned a lot from being together with different partners, from software to hardware and from researchers to suppliers.

- SparxSystems Software GmbH

Since its foundation, IT-V has been involved in publicly funded research projects around every two or three years, but this experience with ITEA was quite unlike their previous participations. The advantage is that you’re meeting people from all over Europe, which leads to better networking and, ultimately, more chances and opportunities.

- IT-V Medizintechnik

ITEA award-winning projects with Austrian participation

ITEA 3 Call 3

ITEA Award of Excellence 2021
Standardisation

VMAP

A new Interface Standard for Integrated Virtual Material Modelling in Manufacturing Industry

VMAP was selected, amongst others, because we particularly appreciate your effort to create a vendor neutral standard for the Computer Aid Engineering data storage and transfer. The project has been able to demonstrate the benefits of the approach on several use cases and to convince outside the consortium the CAE stakeholders to adopt the proposed standard.

ITEA 3 Call 1

ITEA Award of Excellence 2019
Standardisation

ACOSAR

Advanced Co-simulation Open System ARchitecture

The ACOSAR project was selected, amongst others, because of its excellent achievements on Co-Simulation, which is very innovative and will have a high impact on the automotive market. It is impressive how it managed to standardise the Distributed Co-Simulation Protocol under the roof of the Modelica Association. The ITEA Board also appreciates its communication efforts, in particular via their newsletter.

ITEA 2 Call 5

ITEA Award of Excellence 2015
Business impact and Standardisation

SAFE

Safe Automotive soFtware architEcture

TheSAFE project provided an architecture description language, a set of tools and some methods and application rules. SAFE’s involvement in Standardisation bodies has been tremendous: some of the authors of ISO26262 took part in the project and through the first WW implementation SAFE pushed some requests to reformulate the norm. Beside this major involvement SAFE has also impacted EAST-ADL, AUTOSAR, EICOSE, and OMG ensuring some coherence between these different standards taking advantage of its key position in ISO26262.

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