Together with our supporters, we promote promising projects by young talents and increase the quality of research, teaching and third mission: we build bridges to the future.
The Förderkreis 1669 was founded in 2015. The objective: to provide uncomplicated start-up funding for promising projects by young talents and to support infrastructural and personnel projects in favour of improving the quality of research, teaching and third mission issues. Between 2015 and 2024, around EUR 3.7 million in donations were collected from 209 individual supporters and 111 corporate partners. These supporters are helping to build bridges to the future. We thank them from the bottom of our hearts.
What we do: This is how we build bridges to the future.
10 years of the Förderkreis 1669
On Wednesday, 1 October 2025, members, friends and supporters of the Förderkreis 1669 celebrated its tenth anniversary together in the auditorium of the University of Innsbruck. Over 150 guests accepted the invitation to honour this special anniversary. Highlights of the evening included an expert panel on Europe's future and the symbolic lighting of the birthday candles by representatives of the university and business community.
Meeting of the Board of Trustees May 2025
In May, the Board of Trustees of Förderkreis 1669 decided which new projects will be supported from the 2024 funding pot. Funding will continue to be provided for visiting professorships, the development of prototypes and the tried-and-tested MINT summer technology centre, which aims to inspire young women to study the shortage subjects of mathematics, Computer Science, natural sciences and technology. This year, there was also a thematic focus on climate, environmental and species protection, ecological sustainability and biodiversity.
Support group annual report 2024
Promoting the future. Strengthening talent. Find out how the Förderkreis 1669 supports innovative projects, young researchers and creative ideas at the University of Innsbruck in the current Annual Report 2024.
The University of Innsbruck's Förderkreis 1669 has been supporting young researchers for more than 10 years with the help of donors. The network has grown steadily in recent years. Companies and private individuals from various countries donate money to help young talents realise their promising projects, from personnel costs to prototype construction. The quality of research, teaching and third mission is also enhanced.
10 Jahre Förderkreis 1669
Jubiläumsvideo
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Labors und Geräte
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Isolierte Bienenhäuser
Isolierte Bienenhäuser: Rettung vor Winterverlusten
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INNklusion
INNklusion Assistenzlösungen
The Bolzano Chamber of Commerce supports the University of Innsbruck's Förderkreis 1669 because innovation, research and education form the basis for a competitive economy and a future-orientated society. By supporting the Förderkreis 1669, we want to contribute to the development of new ideas and the promotion of young talent.
Bolzano Chamber of Commerce
Education is the key, innovation its engine. Investing in research means investing in progress - which is why MK Illumination supports the Förderkreis 1669 with full conviction.
Klaus Mark
Managing Director and founder
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+43 512 507 38554 foerderkreis1669@uibk.ac.at
Ágnes-Heller-Haus, Innrain 52a, 6020 Innsbruck
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