Institute for Advanced Studies Vienna Campuses

The Vienna Main Campus of the Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS) is the central location for interdisciplinary research and advanced academic training in social sciences. Housed in the historic Palais Strozzi since 2015, it focuses on generating empirically grounded knowledge to address pressing economic, political, and social policy challenges facing Austria and Europe. Unlike traditional universities, IHS emphasizes policy-oriented research, hosting seminars, workshops, and training programs for researchers, policymakers, and early-career scholars rather than standard degree courses.

• Economics and Finance Department: Offers specialized training in macroeconomic modeling, financial markets, fiscal policy, and economic forecasting. Key areas include labor economics, public finance, and empirical methods for policy evaluation, with workshops on econometric techniques and big data analysis in economics.
• Political Science Department: Concentrates on comparative politics, European integration, public policy, and political economy. Programs cover democratic governance, migration policy, inequality, and experimental methods in political science, including seminars on survey design and causal inference.
• Sociology Department: Explores social inequality, demography, urban sociology, and social policy. Courses and research training focus on quantitative sociology, population dynamics, welfare states, and computational social science, with emphasis on longitudinal data analysis and agent-based modeling.
• Cross-Departmental Initiatives: Interdisciplinary projects on climate policy, digital transformation, health economics, and AI ethics, featuring guest lectures, summer schools, and collaborative PhD supervision in partnership with universities.

This campus fosters a collaborative environment with around 100 researchers, promoting evidence-based policymaking through publications, conferences, and advisory services to governments.