News
Millions in funding: Robots learn from nature
Following a multi-stage selection process with a hearing, the FWF's Scientific Advisory Board selected six Emerging Fields consortia. In the Emerging Field "Comparative Ecological Innovation Styles" with a funding volume of over 5 million euros, the participating researchers - including Justus Piater - are investigating how different body structures, ecological niches and cognitive abilities shape the emergence of new behaviours and how this can be helpful for the development of new robotic systems.
Media review
"What can AI do?" with Pascal Knierim
27/01/2026 | Radio Tirol "Tirol am Wort"
One year AI:Factory Austria
15/02/2026 | top.tirol
The mountain is screaming
23/01/2026 | ZDF
Events
16.03.2026 –27.03.2026 The LFU Masterweeks offer prospective and current master’s students valuable insights into master’s programs. The format supports orientation, informed decision-making, and direct exchange with academic staff and students. The contribution of IFI will take place online on 17.03.2026 at 15:00 by Georg Moser (MA) and Michael Vierhauser (MA Software Engineering): Enter the virtual room.
26.03.2026 Radu Prodan, head of AIM AT Endowed professorship for Edge AI, will give the keynote at the 34th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing which will take place in Romania.
On behalf of the research area scientific computing, we cordially invite you to the next lecture and exchange of our series ESC which will take place in HSB 6 from 17:15 until 18:45.
Sashko Ristov (QE) will give an invited talk at this event which is organized by the Austrian Embassy in North Macedonia and Macedonian Ministry of Energy.
09.04.2026 –10.04.2026 RoboCupJunior is an internationally organized educational initiative. The aim is to introduce young people to robots in a playful way, to awaken their interest in science and technology, and to enable exciting knowledge acquisition in the classroom.
This event, co-organized by Philipp Zech, will take place in person as part of the 48th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2026 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
This event which is co-located with the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA) 2026 in Amsterdam, Netherlands is co-organized by Philipp Zech.
22.06.2026 –25.06.2026 This event, co-organized by Pascal Knierim (IGS research group), will take place in Linz.
This event which is co-located with the ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE) 2026 in Montreal, Canada is co-organized by Philipp Zech.
