Michael Walch

The FFG focusses on what people make of their opportunities. As a "one-stop shop" offering a diversified and targeted programme portfolio, the FFG gives Austrian businesses and research facilities quick and uncomplicated access to research funding. Since it was founded in 2004, the FFG has supported over 60,000 companies, universities, research organisations and institutions in over 65,000 funded projects. Numerous innovations have emerged from science and research that have set the course for the future. The FFG advises the brightest minds and creates financial scope for new ideas. It forms networks across borders, whereby not only organisations develop further, but also the people behind them.