This report provides an overview of the state of families in Austria, a Central European country with a mixed welfare regime. It is based on the most recent data from Austria’s National Statistical Institute, Statistics Austria, and recent reports from the Austrian Institute for Family Studies…
Childcare and elementary education offers are an important offer for parents to reconcile family and employment and are an important factor in the development of children. The study examines the expenditure in Austria for these offers.
Publication (in German): Kaindl, Markus (2026): Analysen zu den…
What is the state of early childhood education in Vorarlberg? The new policy paper by AK Vorarlberg analyzes the availability, use, costs, and quality of early childhood education. It was prepared in collaboration between AK Vorarlberg (Linus Riedmann) and the OIF and includes the findings of a…
More support for families from the very beginning: With the introduction of psychosocial parental counseling, the Austrian Parent-Child Pass Program has been expanded to include a new service that supports expectant parents and families during their child’s first year of life with questions,…
A new publication by the OIF demonstrates – with focus on the LEADER Region Weinviertel Ost – how young people can be encouraged to get involved in voluntary work and retained in the long term. For young people, flexible, occasional and digital forms of voluntary work are important on the one hand,…
For young people who live in child and youth care facilities or with foster parents, reaching the age of majority brings particular challenges in addition to the developmental tasks with which they are faced. To support the transition to independence – that is, the process of ‘leaving care’ – child…
On 10 June 2026, a delegation from Universitas Islam Malang visited the OIF. Rector Junaidi Mistar and Wolfgang Mazal as well as Eva-Maria Schmidt from the OIF agreed on a five-year cooperation programme in the areas of research, institutional empowerment, and human resource development.
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On 8 May 2026, a workshop on the international survey programmes ESS, SHARE and GGP took place at the IHS in Vienna.
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At the invitation of "Welt der Frauen" to discuss the topic of mental load, Eva-Maria Schmidt shared her expertise on 7 May 2026, this time at the Wissensturm in Linz. Joining her in speaking to an audience of around 60 women were gender researcher Beatrice Frasl, Linz City Councillor for Women’s…
