Country: Austria

The job initiative is aimed at securing the employment of as many workers from the non-food trade by employing them temporarily in the food trade. Non-food retailers who wish to temporarily employ parts of their staff in the food trade can use the job platform of the Austrian Retail Association. The consent of employees concerned is necessary. The platform also serves as a mediation platform between retailers and workers as food/near-food traders temporarily lack workers and private individuals…

Corona research package of EUR 23 million to increase research activities using artificial intelligence. The research package is intended to finance and accelerate clinical trials and testing of medicines and vaccines against Coronavirus. Moreover, the financial means are intended for research projects concerned with keeping primarily hospitals sterile. Applications can be submitted to the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG).

The Homecare App of the City of Vienna is a valuable tool that allows patients and people who have been in contact with people who have tested positive for COVID 19 to be digitally monitored in their homes. Thus critical infrastructures in hospitals are protected and authorities are relieved. All those who have been in contact with people infected with coronavirus must inform authorities and doctors about their state of health on a daily basis. This is especially true for people who have already…

Mobile Operators provide the government’s emergency task force with anonymised and aggregated movement data to better monitor the effectiveness of the protection measures. All based on the GDPR and national data protection rules.  The Austrian Red Cross has developed the “stop corona” app. The use is on a voluntary basis. It allows an anonymised digital handshake (active storage of contacts) between mobile handsets. If a user gets infected, then they can send an anonymised warning via the…

The Federal Ministry for Digital and Economic Affairs launched the initiative “Digital Team Austria” in order to support SMEs in meeting the requirements for digital and mobile working in times of the Corona crisis. The Digital Team Austria is a cooperation of companies from the digitization sector offering digital services to SME free of charge for at least three months. The package includes the provision of video conferencing tools, Office licenses and security solutions for home office as…

Digital marketplace to support local/regional customers and retailers. The marketplace provides orientation for all customers as an overview of nationwide and regional shopping platforms. Moreover, the digital marketplace offers comprehensive support for retailers on how to build their own e-shop or how to use Austrian online marketplaces such as shöpping.at, willhaben.at, markta.at, niceshops.at, etc. On the retailer side, the focus is primarily on family businesses, one person companies as…

Free practice-orientated e-commerce webinar session formats provide entrepreneurs with practice-oriented knowledge about the potentials of digitization.

The Epidemiological Reporting System (Epidemiologisches Meldesystem, EMS) is the register established by §4 of the Austrian Epidemic Law. It is the central public information system for handling the Corona crisis (see: https://info.gesundheitsministerium.at/BasisInformationen_en.pdf). In an EU context, the system is unique in its comprehensiveness. It not only connects all levels of Austrian health administration. In addition, since 2014, all laboratories are obliged by law to report laboratory…