The project consortium consists of 14 universities with various disciplines and specialisations and four national funding organisations:
14 universities with different disciplines:
- TU Wien
- University of Vienna
- University of Klagenfurt
- University of Innsbruck
- Medical University of Graz
- Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
- University of Applied Arts Vienna
- The University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
- University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna
- University of Salzburg
- Graz University of Technology
- Universität für Bodenkultur Wien
- University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna
- Johannes Kepler University Linz
- University for Continuing Education Krems
Four national funding organisations:
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
- Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG)
- Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF)
- Agency for Education and Internationalisation (OeAD)
“RIS Synergy is both foundation and opportunity for modern, researcher-oriented support based on the mutual exchange of experience, shared competence and active cooperation between universities and funding organisations. RIS Synergy establishes an active community for research support and produces standardised, user-centric technical solutions, thus creating added value for the entire Austrian research landscape.”
“The University of Vienna proactively utilises opportunities for digitisation to promote scientific excellence, innovative teaching, and high-quality and efficient administration. RIS Synergy makes a significant contribution towards this step.”
“Data on research activities is good, but standardised research data is even better. RIS Synergy is Austria’s most ambitious approach to date to overcoming heterogeneous research information systems, reducing redundancies, and enabling the interoperability of a wide variety of research data. Everyone can benefit from this approach.”
“Using synergies is what RIS Synergy is all about:
Funders and universities are coming together to shape a sustainable future
of research information processes in Austria.”
“RIS Synergy – the name says it all: Using synergies between Austrian universities and the most important national funding institutions helps significantly in advancing the digitisation of research information systems. This will not only save time and money in the future, but also minimises errors.”
“For many of our customers, we are already able to use registers (e.g. company registers) to simplify data input and ensure data quality. The RIS Synergy project will enable us to automatically synchronize organisational data of research institutions as well.”
“Strengthening digital skills and creating added value for researchers – RIS Synergy is laying the groundwork!”
“Artistic and scientific research generate data. In both cases, the exchange of this data is important to enable something new. In this sense, RIS Synergy is an opportunity to expand the diversity of perspectives both internally and externally, especially for an art university.”
“Data are the basis for knowledge, smooth processes and increased quality of service. RIS Synergy is a pioneer in digitising the Austrian research landscape, and brings funding organisations and universities closer together. Our goal is to reduce administrative tasks for the researchers we fund.”
“Bundling and exchanging information, levelling out paths, finding a common language – all of this helps to generate more than the sum of individual parts. RIS Synergy strengthens Austria as a research location in the long run by digitally bringing together national funding organisations and research institutions.”
“The University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna (BOKU) is 150 years old and has been continuously developing its own research information system for 25 years. RIS Synergy comes just at the right time because it provides new impulses for the development of the electronic project file 2.0 (against the background of digitalisation) at the interface between the university and funding bodies.”
“RIS Synergy: digital interfaces and shared standards are the common denominator
of universities and funding organisations.”
“RIS Synergy makes an essential contribution to digitising the productive collaboration between universities and funding organisations, which will be reflected in improved quality of service for researchers and in more profound synergies in the research landscape. We are glad to be a part of it!”
“RIS Synergy builds bridges and closes gaps. The University of Veterinary Medicine
participates in RIS Synergy because the project promotes digital communication and can thus
improve data and job quality.”
“RIS Synergy stands for digitization in the best sense of the word: increasing efficiency, simplifying processes, moving closer together. With the implementation of this project, JKU Linz can also decisively advance its focus on “Digital Transformation” beyond research.”
The University of Continuing Education Krems supports the developments of the RIS Synergy project. With advancing digitalisation, enhancing the interfaces between funding organisations and universities is immensely important in order to further develop and modernise Austria as a research location.
“RIS Synergy spearheads further development of research information systems at universities and funding institutions, based on a shared learning process and on continuous exchange.”
“RIS-Synergy offers all players in the research and education sector the chance
to finally get away from proprietary data islands, establish standards and thus simplify cooperation.
A common “language” is the basis for communication and cooperation. RIS Synergy develops this common language!”