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Ideaz is a non-profit association in Vienna (Austria) aiming to provide a bringing-together of academics, intellectuals, and cultural workers from the South (mainly from the Arab/Muslim World, Asia, Africa and Latin America) and the industrialized countries in the North. The intention is to offer a space that can serve as a truly translocal and transnational place of critical and self-critical ideas, projects and perspectives. Thus, Ideaz supports a discourse of knowledge that is not limited to the established trajectories of scientific knowledge between the “northern” countries (Western Europe, North America and Japan), but explicitly incorporates representatives from often neglected “Southern” places. Especially for this second group of persons – established as well as junior scholars and artists – Ideaz will offer the possibility of intercultural encounters in Austria

The Institute for Advanced Studies is an independent, non-profit research Institute covering the areas of Economics, Political Science, and Sociology. Since its inception in 1963 the IHS has been, and continues to be, committed to the highest quality standards of research and postgraduate education. The Institute strives for top performance internationally in the following areas: - Theoretical and empirical cutting-edge research with socio-political and economic policy relevance; - Scientific policy advice based on rigorous empirical and theoretical foundations in Economics, Political Science, and Sociology; - Informing the public about fundamental economic and social problems and policy choices.

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To create a cultural bridge between the Middle East and Europe with the goal to come on equal terms of understanding and respect through intercultural exhibitions and different art events and projects in all artistic fields.
To search for a dialogue with “the Opposite, the Foreign and the Different” in exhibitions with Arab artists from Yemen, Oman, Austria and other Islamic countries.

My main fields of research are: - women and islam - social and political change in Turkey - new social movements - migration. During the last years I mainly focused on migration issues.

Since 1991, Initiative Minderheiten has been advocating for and contributing to creating a society that acknowledges and affords equal treatment and equal rights to minorities in their individual life concepts regardless of their ethnic, social or religious affiliation, sexual orientation or dis/ability. A society can only be considered to have acknowledged minority rights if it facilitates and supports different life concepts in a fair and equal manner. Initiative Minderheiten works towards creating minority alliances.
IM defines a minority as people who experience discrimination based on their ethnic, social or religious affiliation, sexual orientation or dis/ability. Politically, discrimination means excluding certain people from certain rights; socially, it means experiencing prejudices and exclusions. This definition is not based on a group’s number of members, but rather on their lack of power in comparison to that of the hegemonic majority.

The Afro-Asian Institute of Vienna is a centre of dialogue between the nations. It was founded in 1959 sponsored by of the Cardinal Franz Kanig, former archbishop of Vienna.
The Afro-Asian institute is a place of oecumenical, inter religious and intercultural dialogue. It constitutes a real Afro-Asian world located at the centre of Vienna .

The joint aim is interdisciplinary historical and archaeological research in the Eastern Mediterranean.

The objectives of the Institute are to conduct research into political and social conflicts at an interdisciplinary level and to generate possible solutions designed to provide advice for political decision-making. These activities are underpinned by basic research.

The Institute is committed to the principles and values of the Charter of the United Nations, in particular to respect the fundamental rights and dignity of alle human beings and of all nations. Its aim is to contribute to the development of sustainable social systems in particular in emerging democracies. The Institute is a non-partisan organisation and supports pluralist democracy.