Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Menschenrechte

The Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights (BIM ) is a research institute of the Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft (LBG ) and provides research and teaching in the field of human rights committed.

The BIM was founded in 1992 by Felix Ermacora, Manfred Nowak and Hannes Tretter, and now lives at Freyung in Vienna. The scientific management are now made by Manfred Nowak, Hannes Tretter ( also administrative management ) and Fiona Steinert (Management).

Namesake of the institute and the company is the Austrian physicist and philosopher Ludwig Boltzmann ( 1844-1906 ).

Tasks

The BIM is dedicated to human rights through research at national, European and international level. In addition, focal point is the documentation and teaching, with the BIM moves at the interface between theory and practice of human rights work. It's like the Austrian Institute for Human Rights in Salzburg, the European Training and Research Centre for Human Rights and Democracy in Graz and the European Training and Research Centre for Human Rights and Democracy at the University of Graz, one of the institutions in Austria, the scientifically in the field of human rights are active. It maintains a wide cooperation with international, intergovernmental and national institutions and organizations.

With the Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law at the University of Vienna is a cooperation agreement.

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  • Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights
  • Human rights organization
  • Ludwig Boltzmann Society
  • Research Institute in Austria
  • Organization ( Vienna)
  • Inner City (Vienna)
  • Established in 1992
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