The COMET program promotes the development and expansion of research centers and competence centers for excellent technologies, as well as the networking of economy and science in Vienna. The competence centers programs, initiated in 1998, are one of the most successful innovations of technology policy in Austria. About 1,500 researchers from academia and industry work on jointly defined research programs at an internationally competitive level in over 40 centers running these programs.
The object of the competence centers is to bring together basic scientific research and economic skills with specific research needs and thus realize joint projects on an internationally competitive level based on cooperation. The City of Vienna and the Vienna Business Agency support about 18 centers with Viennese participation of around 4 million Euros annually since 2008.
COMET-centres with Viennese participation:
- ABC - Austrian Blockchain Center
- acib - Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology
- BEST 4.0 - Shaping the transition to a sustainable and climate-friendly bioeconomy
- Bioenergy 2020+
- CBmed Biomarker Research
- CDP - Austrian Center for Digital Production
- CHASE Chemical Systems Engineering
- D4Dairy
- FFOQSI
- HyCentA - Hydrogen Research Centre Austria
- Know Center
- LEC - Large Engines Competence Centre
- Railways4Future
- SBA Research
- TCCV - Textile Competence Center Vorarlberg
- VASCage-C
- VRVis - Zentrum für Virtual Reality und Visualisierung
- We3D - wire-based additive manufacturing