General Information

IDC is an interdisciplinary association of scientists from a variety of different scholarly disciplines, such as physics, biology, social and political sciences. IDC is a non-profit, non-partisan research organisation, established under Austrian Law of Associations with its headquarter in Vienna. IDC established several working groups for effective implementation of activities such as EU-Africa WG, energy safety WG or bio-safety WG. The ressources available are some hundred thousands EUR in a year. Sources of fundings are national and international state programmes for research. Projects are related to science communications, technology assessment, risk research, foresight studies using different methodologies such as data mining, statistical reviews, interview series, stakeholder workshops, policy analysis and statement collections etc. Main partners involved in the organization's projects are Universities, non-state research organisations, CSOs, business, media and state institutions from Europe and all over the world with focus on developing and transition states.