Austria
If you are interested in representing the Generation Europe Community in Austria, please send your CV and motivation letter to Arnaud at arnaud@generation-europe.eu
Selected links:
TV & newspapers:
- http://www.atvplus.at
- http://www.krone.at – Austria’s most popular and most disputed newspaper
- http://www.derstandard.at
- http://www.diepresse.com
- http://www.kurier.at
- http://www.wienerzeitung.at
- http://ww.oe24.at – website of the new daily newspaper „Österreich“
Austrian Academy of Sciences – http://www.oeaw.ac.at
Political:
- European Youth Parliament http://www.eyp.at
- Women´s policy in the European Parliament http://www.ceiberweiber.at
- Austria`s Ministry for Foreign Affairs http://www.bmaa.gv.at
Education:
- Danube University http://www.donau-uni.ac.at Centre for European Integration offers a broad range of interesting courses on European issues
- Diplomatic Academy of Vienna http://www.da-vienna.ac.at/
- University of Vienna http://www.uni-vie.ac.at
Forums:
- European Forum Alpbach http://www.club-alpbach.at/ – The European Forum Alpbach is a renowned annual summer event dealing with European issues, http://www.alpbach.org
www.europainfo.at - Europaforum Wien – Center for Urban dialogue and European policy www.europaforum.or.at. If you are from Lower Austria or if you studied there, you can apply for a scholarship for the European Forum Alpbach which takes place each summer!
Other:
- The Austrian Association for European policy http://www.euro-info.net
- The Academic Forum for Foreign Policy http://www.afa.at
- The official homepage of the European Parliament in Austria http://www.europarl.at
- Information for high school students on the Model European Parliament http://www.europarl.at
Austria in brief:
| Area | 83,870 sq km |
| Capital | Vienna |
| Language | German (official nationwide), Slovene (official in Carinthia), Croatian (official in Burgenland), Hungarian (official in Burgenland) |
| Population | 8,184,691 (July 2005 est.) |
| Population growth rate | 0.11% (2005 est.) |
| Life expectancy | 76.03 (men), 81.96 (women) |
| Literacy rate | 98% |
| Religion | Roman Catholic 73.6%, Protestant 4.7%, Muslim 4.2%, other 0.1%, none 17.4% |
| Net migration rate | 1.97 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2005 est.) |
| Ethnic groups | German 88.5%, indigenous minorities 1.5% (includes Croatians, Slovenes, Hungarians, Czechs, Slovaks, Roma), recent immigrant groups 10% (includes Turks, Bosnians, Serbians, Croatians) (2001) |
| Independence | 1156 (Duchy of Austria founded); 12 November 1918 (republic proclaimed) |
| GDP | real growth rate 1.9% (2004 est.) |
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