Austrian Latin America Institute
The Austrian Latin America Institute ( LAI) in Vienna is an interdisciplinary center for academic and cultural exchanges with Latin America. It was founded in 1965, has the legal form of an association and receives public funding for his research and development activities. About half of the annual budget is funded from its own resources, mainly from the proceeds of educational events and membership fees. The institute is located since 1994 at the Palais silt in the 9th district.
Library
The Institute maintains a company specializing in the Latin American region library and documentation center collection emphasis specialized books and journals on economics, politics, history, culture, society and ecology of the Latin American countries as well as literary works of Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking authors and their translations into German. The library is a member of the European Information and Documentation Network on Latin America REDIAL.
Interdisciplinary university course for Higher Latin American Studies
The six interdisciplinary university course for Higher Latin American Studies is a part-time regional specific training program, which is in Austria the only Latin American Studies courses offered on an academic level. It is organized by the University of Vienna in cooperation with the Austrian Latin America Institute and completed with a Master of Arts in Latin American Studies.
Information, advice and support
The institute provides information and advice for anyone interested in Latin America people and promotes and advises Latin American students in Austria. As part of the " One World Scholarship Program " scholarships are awarded to Hispanic students in Austria.
Atención
Scientific Yearbook of the Institute has been published since 1997 under the title Atención once a year as a continuation of the 1975 published until 1996 Journal of Latin Vienna with contributions in German, Spanish and English. The selection of topics is modeled on the topics of the semester interdisciplinary academic program for higher Latin American Studies.
Cultural Events
The regular program of events in the rooms of the Institute includes exhibitions, book presentations, concerts, lectures and discussions.
Scientific and cultural projects
- At the margins of the EU - Latin America summit in 2006 under the Austrian EU Presidency in Vienna, the LAI has the international conference series " Regional Integration, intercontinental cooperation by the EU - Latin America and the issues of Poverty, Development and Democracy " organized ( REAL 2006).
- The education and music festival Onda Latina, the Austria-wide instead was conducted between April and June 2006, also goes back to an initiative of the LAI.
- The LAI coordinated the project " LAC -ACCESS - Connecting High-Quality Research Between The European Union and Latin American and Caribbean Countries" (January 2007 to April 2009), whose aim was to research institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean in the dynamics of the European research Area, with a focus on the EU's 7th framework Programme for research and technological development to integrate.
Language Courses
With nearly 250 courses annually, the Institute is the largest provider of Spanish - and Portuguese courses in Austria. Somewhat less frequently, introductory seminars on indigenous languages such as Quechua, Aymara, Guaraní, or Mayan languages are offered.
Austrian Association Latin American Studies
The Institute itself is not a research institution, it cared for and supported, however, the joint venture (JV ) Austrian Latin America Research ( Lateinmerikaforschung Austria). The consortium is an association for scientific networking, for an interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and cross-disciplinary collaboration of researchers in Latin America Austria. It sees itself as an open forum, which would provide young scientists the opportunity to present their work and discuss with colleagues. For July 2007, the consortium had 108 members from Austria, other European countries and Latin America. Every year it organizes a scientific meeting, held in Strobl am Wolfgangsee since 1985 in the Federal Home Adult Education St. Wolfgang. In the series Investigaciones Theses young Latin American researchers will be made publicly available. The ARGE Austrian Latin American Studies was founded in 1983 on the initiative of members of the Austrian Latin America Institute, and, as the institution itself, a member of CEISAL.