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Our partners and clients benefit from the symposiums and conferences (co-)organised and hosted by AIT. In this way, it is possible to extend the knowledge lead in R&D topics.

Austrian Startup Monitor: How startups tick Together with WU Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, the AIT is organising the 11th International Sustainability Transitions Conference. Due to COVID-19, it will take place online between on 18–21 August. The conference takes an interdisciplinary perspective on the causes and structural challenges of a transformation towards a sustainable economic model. International researchers, practitioners and other stakeholders discuss the design and implementation of a transformative governance and policy for systemic change. In this way, #IST2020_Vienna will provide an excellent opportunity for a stimulating exchange between international science and local practice.

Where do most startups get launched? How are they financed? What is the composition of the startup ecosystem in Austria? These questions and many more will be answered in the Austrian Startup Monitor 2019. "The Austrian Startup Monitor helps to collect and continuously analyse information on the development of Austrian startups," says AIT project manager Karl-Heinz Leitner. To this end, startups are identified and questioned in annual online surveys on the Austrian startup ecosystem and their perspectives. The results of the surveys are the central foundation for the preparation of the Austrian Startup Monitor 2018 and 2019. On 20 February 2020, the current study was presented at the Federal Ministry for Digital and Economic Affairs, with Federal Minister Margarete

International Sustainability Transitions Conference Schramböck opening the event.

Climate-friendly mobility of the future In December 2019, the United Nations International Hackathon against Digital Terrorism took place at the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology in Vienna. The motto was "Countering Digital Terrorism". The event was organized by the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Center (UNCCT) of the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT), the United Nations Office of Information Communication and Technology (OICT), and the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology. The aim of the Innovation Challenge was to raise young people's awareness of digital terrorist threats and to motivate them to look for innovative solutions to these threats. The finalist teams were selected from a total of 60 teams that had submitted ideas in the course of a call for entries. The Cybersecurity Innovation Challenge was hosted by AIT, which has a strong research focus on the area of digital security with its Center for Digital Safety & Security. Anton Plimon, Managing Director of AIT, emphasised the importance of a "globally functioning digital data space".

Already for the 4th time, the futurezone Day organised by the technology news platform futurezone.at took place in November 2019. The focus of the event was on the climate crisis and how technology can help in overcoming it. In the course of the panel "Sustainable mobility of the future" presented by AIT, Arno Klamminger, Head of Center for Mobility Systems, discussed trends and challenges in the mobility system together with Sabine Kühschelm (BMK), Bernd Datler (ASFINAG), Peter Malanik (Austrian Aviation Association) and Wolfgang Grausenburger (Austrian Post). AIT also hosted the award ceremony

Cybersecurity Innovation Challenge at AIT organized by United Nations Counter-Terrorism Center (UNCCT) in the category "Mobility" (picture left).

Workshop of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and AIT on cybersecurity Vienna has developed into a hot spot for digital security in recent years. The International Digital Security Forum (IDSF) Vienna, to be held on 2–4 December 2020, will address the innovative nature and risks of new digital technologies by examining their use by malicious players as well as re world. One of the aims of the conference is to build partnerships that can keep pace with the challenges of digitisation and channel the consequences of technological change in line with our vision of a good and sustainable society.

For the second time, the AIT organised a special computer security training course at the AIT together with representatives of the IAEA. The course content, co-authored by the AIT Center for Digital Safety & Security, builds on key IAEA guidance on computer security in nuclear facilities, with participants completing several hands-on exercises using representative industrial control systems and physical protection equipment found in this type of environment. Topics include understanding the nature of the cyber threat, applying a tiered approach to computer security, and implementing security using "Defence in Depth". The course content is characterized by a strong practical component: The participants complete exercises with representative industrial control systems and physical protection equipment found in nuclear facilities. It also includes exercises for analysing

International Digital Security Forum (IDSF) Vienna their potential for building a more resilient and secunetwork traffic and managing security events.

LKR produced the "Photo Challenge Awards" by means of 3D printing Together with the Prague Photo School, the Upper Austrian Research GmbH (UAR) organized the photo competition "FOTO CHALLENGE 2019" for the first time in September 2019. Under the motto "Upper Austrian Research in Pictures", it revealed the outstanding research achievements in Upper Austria and provided enlightening insights into the world of science. As a longstanding network partner and research institution in Upper Austria, the LKR Leichtmetallkompetenzzentrum took an active part in this campaign. The photographs submitted by the photographers were judged by an expert jury from the field of research, a creative jury, and the audience at the award ceremony. The expert jury selected the best photo in each of the 3 research fields of digitisation, industrial production and mobility & logistics. The long-term LKR researcher Maria Kühlein was one of three expert jury members. For the production of the winning awards, the UAR drew on Upper Austrian expertise in the field of Wire-AM (wire+arc additive manufacturing): The awards were manufactured in the newly established Additive Manufacturing Laboratory at the LKR. AIT Digi-Network launched On 13 February 2020, as part of the first Digi Network, the AIT Center for Technology Experience addressed the future challenges that digitisation managers will have to face. Together with managers from various industries, Markus Murtinger (Head of Competence Unit Experience Business Transformation) examined experience topics from different perspectives. The aim of this event series is to identify trends and potentials, discuss them, and develop possible solutions for the digital future. The first AIT Digi Network dealt with the topics of law and experience in connection with digital experiences and the design of processes.