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New Leadership Team of the Department of Mountain Research and Regional Development
Ingrid Machold was appointed Head of the Department of Mountain Research and Regional Development in September 2026. She had already been serving in this role on an acting basis since the retirement of Klaus Wagner in April 2026, and had been Deputy Head of the Department since March 2021. Heidelinde Grüneis now serves as Deputy Head.
Digital Divide Among Farmsteads – Mountain versus Valley: Location Matters More Than Gender
How well are Austria's mountain farms connected to fast internet, and does it matter whether a woman or a man runs the farm? Erika Quendler and Florian Stender of the Federal Institute of Agricultural Economics, Rural and Mountain Research (BAB) examined this at the level of individual farms for the first time. Their paper was published in the journal Mountain Research and Development. What was studied? The authors linked spatial data from Austria's Broadband Atlas with farm data from the...
NEXRUR Consortium Meets in Uppsala
From 16 to 20 September 2026, the second consortium meeting of the EU project NEXRUR (Next Generation Sustainable Business Models and Monitoring for Rural Resilience and Innovation) took place in Uppsala, Sweden. Representatives from the European and Chinese project partners gathered at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) to further develop the joint research agenda and to agree on the next steps in the project. On behalf of the BAB, Oliver Tamme and Georg Wiesinger took...
RUSTIK consortium meeting in Vienna
On 7 and 8 September, RUSTIK project partners from ten different countries visited the BAB to plan the final phase of the Horizon Europe RUSTIK project together. RUSTIK stands for ‘Rural Sustainability Transitions through Integration of Knowledge for improved policy processes’; its primary aim is therefore to determine how data experiments and knowledge generation can facilitate rural sustainability transitions. A particular focus of this meeting was the jointly drafted synthesis report,...
Data Competence and Bureaucracy: The BAB at the 65th GEWISOLA Annual Conference in Braunschweig
The 65th Annual Conference of the German Society for Agricultural Economics and Social Sciences (GEWISOLA) took place from 23 to 25 September 2026 at the Thünen Institute in Braunschweig. The BAB was represented by two presentations: Martin Schönhart, Richard Maria, and Christoph Tribl presented under the title A Data Pool to Support Austrian Agricultural Policy Design and Evaluation introducing the BAB as a data competence centre. The professional collection, validation, processing,...
16th BOKU CAS Autumn Conference
On 16 September 2026, the 16th BOKU CAS Autumn Conference, held under the motto 'Ploughing Together – Towards an Equal and Future-Proof Agriculture!', took place at the Ilse Wallentin House at BOKU. This year's conference was jointly organised by the BOKU Centre for Agricultural Sciences, the Federal Institute for Agricultural and Mountain Farming Research (BAB), the Austrian Society for Agricultural Economics (ÖGA), and the BOKU Institute of Development Studies. Set against the backdrop...
3rd International Symposium on Work in Agriculture – ISWA
From 7 to 10 July 2026, the 3rd International Symposium on Work in Agriculture (ISWA 2026) took place in Zollikofen, Switzerland. The international event addressed current and future challenges of work in agriculture from the perspectives of research, policy, and practice, and brought together 200 participants from 20 countries. Erika Quendler’s presentation was about a capability framework. Through this framework, she illustrates how education and training can support young people in...
Regional Mountain Conference 2026
The Mountain Research Initiative’s (MRI) Regional Mountain Conference 2026 took place in Obergurgl from 5 to 8 July 2026 and addressed current challenges and future prospects for mountain regions. It focused on sustainable development, climate change, tourism, biodiversity, and regional resilience. The international conference provided a platform for exchange between science, policy, and practice and promoted interdisciplinary dialogue on sustainable solutions for alpine regions. In the...
First Stakeholder Workshop in NexRur
Applying the Learning History method with the FoodCooperative S'Gartl in Windischgarsten On 8 July 2026, the first stakeholder workshop of the Horizon project NexRur took place with members of the FoodCooperative S'Gartl. The workshop was organised by Oliver Tamme, Katrin Hofer and Georg Wiesinger at the Shared Space Schärhaus in Windischgarsten. Alongside an initial personal introduction, the focus of the workshop was the application of the Learning History method, which is intended to...
Global Agritourism Conference
From 23 to 25 June 2026, the Global Agritourism Conference took place in Aberdeen, Scotland. Held at the P&J Live conference centre, the event brought together 550 experts from around 55 countries to discuss current developments in agritourism and exchange international experiences. The Austrian Federal Institute of Agricultural Economics, Rural and Mountain Research (BAB) was represented by Erika Quendler. Erika Quendler and presented research on “Agritourism in European Agriculture:...
RUSTIK Final Conference in Brussels
How can rural sustainability transitions be best supported through knowledge-based strategies and policies? The four-year Horizon Europe project RUSTIK, in which BAB leads a work package, addresses exactly this question through data experiments in fourteen European Living Labs. As the project draws to a close, it was time to invite stakeholders to a large final conference in Brussels on 24 and 25 June. The event was organised jointly with the Horizon Europe sister project GRANULAR. The...
Women Farmers Study 2026 – Introductory Presentation and Workshop
Introductory Presentation and Workshop at the “Evaluation in Dialogue” Event at the Wissensturm in Linz In the lead-up to the final steering committee meeting of the 2014–2020 Rural Development (LE) funding period, the “Evaluation in Dialogue” event was held on 25 June 2026 at the Wissensturm in Linz. Following opening remarks by representatives of the BMLUK and the European Commission, Margarethe Schima-Tripolt, responsible for implementing the ex-post evaluation of the LE 14–20...