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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). NOAA’s Climate Program Office (CPO) provides strategic guidance and oversight for the agency’s climate science and services programs. The CPO funds high-priority research to advance understanding of atmospheric and oceanic processes. Recognizing that climate science literacy is a prerequisite for putting this new knowledge into action at all levels of society, the CPO also guides NOAA’s climate communication, education, and professional development and training activities.

National Cancer Institute (NCI). As the U.S. Federal Government’s principal cancer research agency, NCI belongs to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which is among the eleven agencies that compose the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The responsibilities of NCI include collecting and disseminating cancer information, coordinating research efforts, assessing state-of-the-art cancer treatments and their integration into clinical practice, fostering national and international collaboration, and supporting a network of cancer centers.

Austrian Federal Ministry of Finance. The responsibilities of the country’s highest financial authority stretch from budgetary planning and surveillance to economic policy, financial services, customs and taxation. Divided into six directorates and with more than 800 employees, the Ministry of Finance today is a modern service provider, continuously adapting its advanced information services to the needs of Austrian citizens.

Academic Partners

MODUL University Vienna conducts state-of-the-art research in new media technology, tourism and public governance. Established by the Vienna Economic Chamber of Commerce in 2007, MODUL University Vienna combines a strong academic foundation with commitment to sustainability and innovation as key drivers of long-term success. It fosters independent, original research for participating in national and international R&D programs. The faculty comprises renowned Austrian and international scholars, who have a strong commitment to develop this young organization into a leading research platform.

Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration was established in 1898 and has grown to a large organization with 20,000 students and more than 1,000 full-time and adjunct faculty. Ranked among Europe’s Top 50 Business Schools by the Financial Times, VUEBA is the first Austrian University with an international EQUIS accreditation, one of only four in the German-speaking world. The Research Institute for Computational Methods includes researchers from four different departments collaborating on advanced computational methods in the areas of finance, information systems and marketing.

Corporate Partners

Gentics Software is a leading Austrian developer of standard software for high-end content management and Web portal solutions. The company was founded in 2000 and has participated successfully in Austrian and European markets especially in government, telecommunications and industry sectors ever since. Gentics won the prize for the best startup company 2003 by the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber, for example, and the Golden Arrow for the best IT consulting company 2005 by com.sult 05.

SmApper Technologies is a privately held data storage company based in Kufstein, Austria, that specializes in file system technologies and file-level storage architectures for unstructured data. The company addresses one of the greatest challenges facing information technology managers in the enterprise today – the management of the explosive growth of unstructured data.