💻 50%+ of chip design time is spent on verification. Graz-based semify has turned this bottleneck into a global business. 🇦🇹🌐
From automotive to #AI data centers, they ensure reliability before production.
✅ 90% Int'l market
✅ AI chip pioneer
Details: bit.ly/4t0UlLt
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Austria’s culinary scene is shining! ⭐🇦🇹
The #MICHELIN Guide 2026 brings Austria’s total to 124 stars (+20!). With 13 stars per million inhabitants, Austria is a top global destination for foodies. 🍽️✨
Discover more „Made in Austria“ delicacies: bit.ly/4sZsOdp
#tasteofaustria #surprisinglyingenious
Sweet 100! 🧁🇦🇹 Since 1926, the Niemetz Schwedenbombe has been an Austrian icon. Wafer, foam, chocolate – a simple recipe that won a nation's heart.
The loyalty is so strong, fans even saved the brand in 2013! ❤️
Read the full story: bit.ly/4dI4YhB
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The brain, revealed. An Austrian invention opens new ways to see the human brain. For the first time, the international science journal Nature Magazine has named an Austrian technology among its "Seven technologies to watch". The Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) earned this recognition with "LICONN", a microscopy method that could transform brain research. Instead "zooming in" on the sample, the ISTA team expands the tissue sample itself using a special hydrogel. The sample swells while keeping its structure, becomes transparent and increases resolution 16 times. Now we can see fine neural connections and pathways across thousands of synapses: This brings a full "wiring diagram" of the brain within reach. Because the technique is simple and affordable, it can be used in laboratories worldwide. Another strong signal of Austria's global innovation strength.
🧠 Austrian innovation at @istaresearch.bsky.social: The microscopy method LICONN is named by @nature.com as one of “technologies to watch”. By expanding tissue, it reveals #brain connections in unprecedented detail .
Read more about medical tech from #Austria👉 bit.ly/47dbIzX
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Austria’s medical excellence hits the TOP 20! 🏥🇦🇹
The AKH / @meduniwien.ac.at climbed to rank 20 in Newsweek’s "World's Best Hospitals 2026", its best result ever. With 29 clinics &world-class research, Vienna remains a global health leader. 🩺✨
More: bit.ly/4bjOhY1
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🚀 ViennaUP is back! From 18-22 May, Vienna becomes a global innovation hub.
Don't miss Connect Day (19 May) by ADVANTAGE AUSTRIA: The ultimate matchmaking for startups, corporates & investors in AI, GreenTech & more. ✨
Join the future: bit.ly/4uxMu9p
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Smaller than bacteria: Vienna University of Technology has created the world's smallest QR code. It measures 1.98 square micrometres and is milled into a ceramic layer using focused ion beams. Each pixel is just 49 nanometres, which makes the code invisible to visible light. It can only be read with an electron microscope. Researchers at Vienna University of Technology carried out the project with Cerabyte, a company working on long‑term data storage technologies. Their shared focus lies in materials research. Conventional digital storage requires constant energy input, cooling systems and periodic data migration. Ceramic films behave differently. They remain stable under extreme conditions and preserve structural information over long periods. The experiment demonstrates that ceramic media can hold dense information in a compact and durable format.
Smaller than a bacterium!
@tuwien.at has created the world’s smallest QR code: just 1.98 µm² and visible only under an electron microscope. A milestone for ceramic data storage-extremely durable, compact, and energy-efficient.
More: bit.ly/4umJTio
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Ist sehr schön geworden ☺️
Gateway to space: "Austria-Houston" in Graz prepares for a major upgrade while keeping missions active. Satellites TUGSAT‑1, PRETTY, OPS‑SAT, and UniBRITE have all contributed to Austrian space research from Inffeldgasse 12 at the Technische Universität Graz campus. This site is where the satellites were, and are, built and tested. It is also where they are controlled and monitored throughout their missions, which earned the ground station the nickname "Austria-Houston". The building from the 1970s will now undergo a full renovation. Around 10 million euros will be invested by 2028. The missions at a glance: 1. TUGSAT‑1 and UniBRITE, the first Austrian small satellites, launched in 2013. Both operated longer than planned, delivered data on the variability of bright stars, and completed their missions in 2025. 2. OPS‑SAT, a "flying test laboratory", tested new satellite concepts and technologies for more than four years. 3. The mission of the mini climate satellite PRETTY was recently extended until the end of 2026. "Austria-Houston" also includes a clean room for satellite assembly and facilities for essential pre‑launch tests. These tests range from temperature cycles between minus 40 and plus 80 degrees Celsius to trials in the vacuum chamber and on the vibration table. In the area of space technology, the entire spectrum is covered in Austria. From components for satellites and space vehicles to ground equipment and specialised measuring instruments.
🛰️ Austria’s “Austria-Houston” at @tugraz.bsky.social is getting a €10m upgrade. From this ground station in #Graz, satellites like TUGSAT-1, OPS-SAT and PRETTY are built, tested & controlled - strengthening Austria’s role in space research. 🚀
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Discover the home of winter sports excellence.
Home to global market leaders in ropeways.
Host of #INTERALPIN, the world's leading fair for alpine technologies.
Read more in our new FRESH VIEW: bit.ly/4kVzm9M
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In 2024 alone, #Airbus purchased almost €1 billion worth of goods in Austria. Companies such as TEST-FUCHS, Diamond Aircraft, F/LIST & Skytec from Austria show that global aircraft construction would be virtually inconceivable without domestic expertise.
Read more: bit.ly/42cP3ls
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100 million bottles of Styrian pumpkin seed oil PGI! 🫙💚
The #EU has been protecting this ‘green gold’ for 30 years. In 2025, sales rose by a whopping 24.4%. Whether in the #USA, #Asia or #Germany - the world loves Styrian quality. 🌍✨
Have you tried our oil?
#surprisinglyingenious #tasteofaustria
A patch for Ebola & HIV?
The EU project #FORTIFIEDx makes it possible!
Austrian researchers are developing a post-it-sized microfluidic patch:
✅ Tests directly on the skin
✅ Results in minutes
✅ No laboratory or electricity required
Revolutionary for remote regions! 🌍
👉 bit.ly/3YSDyg8
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⚡ When a large part of #Berlin lost power, help came from #Austria! Two technicians from #etn – Energie- und Telecom Netze (Lower Austria) paused their holidays to assist emergency crews, fixing complex cables & helping restore #power for thousands.
Read more here 👉 bit.ly/4sNVFBK
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Which books did you read?
Austria has been shaping quantum physics since Schrödinger's equation in 1926 & continues this tradition with top-level research in Vienna, Innsbruck & at IQOQI Vienna, covering everything from fundamental principles to quantum internet & communication.
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In Vienna, @tuwien.at & @meduniwien.ac.at are developing 3D‑bioprinted skin models with integrated immune cells to better study chronic skin diseases like psoriasis & eczema. A life sciences milestone from Austria! More: bit.ly/4pXXTwk
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Vienna’s sweet tradition goes global 🍬 - hop on the Manner Christkindl Express along the Ringstrasse, enjoy historic views and iconic pink wafers (vegan & made in Vienna), shared from 1889 to 50+ countries worldwide. A taste of Austria this season!
#surprisinglyingenious #advantageaustria #vienna
Austria’s tech lifts Paris 🚠
The #CâbleC1 urban cable car is now operating south-east of Paris, built with expertise from Austrian company #Doppelmayr. It cuts travel times & offers sustainable, barrier-free mobility.
Read more about #mobilityaustria
👉 bit.ly/48RKNtk
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Lower Austrias Johannes Zillinger wins big: the NUMEN Riesling 2021 scored 96 pts & ranks #24 in Wine Enthusiast’s Top 100 - top spot among Rieslings. Organic, long-matured & full of character. Read more about food from Austria: bit.ly/4oi1sNj
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🌿 @tugraz.bsky.social Spin-off Ecolyte wins EU Innovation Radar Prize 2025! The paper-based IonLeaf membrane: PFAS-free, 98% biodegradable, 90% cheaper - for batteries, fuel cells & more.
More about Green Tech from #Austria in our FRESH VIEW: bit.ly/49JYBIB
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#mobilityaustria ist am Puls der Zeit. Mehr zur Exzellenz Österreichs in diesem Bereich findet sich im FRESH VIEW #mobilityaustria.
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Austrian ultramarathoner Rainer Predl wins the Antarctic Ice Ultra🏆! 100 km in 9:55:44 hours, a record at -30°C. Extreme conditions, strong winds and icy trails - a triumph for Austria!
Austrian ultramarathoner Rainer Predl wins the Antarctic Ice Ultra🏆! 100 km in 9:55:44 hours, a record at -30°C. Extreme conditions, strong winds and icy trails - a triumph for Austria!
#advantageaustria #wintersports
The institute works closely with the Vienna University of Technology, the University of Vienna and major international projects such as CERN. Around a quarter of the employees are doctoral students. (3/3)
It brings together over 100 employees and is Austria's largest centre for experimental and theoretical particle physics. The name honours Marietta Blau, whose pioneering work in the detection of subatomic particles contributed significantly to the international importance of Austrian physics.
The Marietta Blau Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) was founded in 2025 through the merger of HEPHY (founded in 1966) and SMI (successor to the Institute for Radium Research, founded in 1910).
The Marietta Blau Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) was founded in 2025 through the merger of HEPHY (founded in 1966) and SMI (successor to the Institute for Radium Research, founded in 1910). It brings together over 100 employees and is Austria's largest centre for experimental and theoretical particle physics. The name honours Marietta Blau, whose pioneering work in the detection of subatomic particles contributed significantly to the international importance of Austrian physics. The institute works closely with the Vienna University of Technology, the University of Vienna and major international projects such as CERN. Around a quarter of the employees are doctoral students.
Austria's largest particle physics institute is now called the Marietta Blau Institute, named after the pioneer who made traces of subatomic particles visible. Merger of HEPHY & SMI under the umbrella of @oeaw.bsky.social.
#advantageaustria #physics #innovation
TU Wien @tuwien.at decodes how silver iodide triggers ice formation in clouds at the atomic level. This improves our understanding of targeted rain formation and cloud seeding. A step forward for agriculture and climate protection!
👉 bit.ly/489Y94W
#advantageaustria #climateprotection
MedUni Vienna @meduniwien.ac.at is using #OPTIR technology to discover new ways of visualising microplastics in body tissue.
A step forward for research and health.
👉 bit.ly/4qONmV8
#advantageaustria #microplastics #medicine #research #innovation
