OeAD

What OeAD does

OeAD — the Austrian Agency for Education and Internationalisation, legally OeAD-GmbH — is a non-profit limited liability company wholly owned by the Republic of Austria and operating since 1961 from Vienna. The agency serves as Austria's national implementing body for cross-border education and research mobility, administering Erasmus+ and the European Solidarity Corps at the national level, running the CEEPUS multilateral exchange programme across 16 Central, Eastern, and South-Eastern European member countries, and managing named scholarship and fellowship programmes including the Ernst Mach Scholarship, Franz Werfel Fellowship, and Richard Plaschka Fellowship.

Its flagship digital product is grants.at, a free public web-based database containing over 1,200 entries covering scholarships, research grants, prizes, and financial support options across all academic disciplines and funding tiers (institutional, municipal, provincial, federal, EU, international, and private). The platform supports multi-criteria search by grant name, type, country of origin, target country, target group, women's grants, and subject area, and is maintained in collaboration with 29 grant-awarding authorities, many of which update entries directly via the stima2.scholarships.at self-service entry system. grants.at was expanded with EU financial support under the EURAXESS – Researchers in Motion framework, linking the database to European researcher job-vacancy portals.

OeAD operates as a publicly financed agency rather than a commercial entity: grants.at is provided free of charge, and the agency's programmes and activities are funded primarily by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Women, Science and Research (BMFWF, which also exercises ownership rights), BMB, BKA, BMWKMS, the Austrian Development Agency (ADA), and the European Commission. The end users — Austrian students and researchers going abroad and international students and researchers coming to Austria — are not paying customers but beneficiaries of a public service, and the "customer" in revenue terms is effectively the set of institutional funders backing the mandate. Distribution is direct-to-consumer via the web platform, supplemented by embedded integrations into partner institutional websites and by cross-promotion through studyinaustria.at and Euraxess Austria.

Name

OeAD

Legal name

OeAD-GmbH — Agentur für Bildung und Internationalisierung

Website

https://grants.at

Company type

Private

Founded year

1961

Operating status

Operating

Short description

OeAD is Austria's state-owned education agency that operates grants.at, a free public database of over 1,200 scholarships and research grants, and administers national programmes including Erasmus+, CEEPUS, and named fellowships for inbound and outbound students and researchers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Education Agency Services and Academic Funding Information

NAICS

Grantmaking Foundations (813211), Educational Services (611), Educational Support Services (611710)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Education Grantmaking Foundations (BPAGAKAK)

akta.pro secondary industries

Research & Science Grantmaking Foundations (BPAGAKAI), Research Grants, Fellowships & Stipends (International) (EDAIAOAJ), Scholarship & Fellowship Foundations and Trusts (EDADAHAC), Foundation/NGO & Philanthropic Scholarships (EDAIAOAH)

Keywords

• Scholarship database services
• Academic mobility programmes
• Research grant information
• Education internationalisation
• Fellowship administration services

Headquarters

HQ city

Vienna

HQ country

Austria

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Government Funding: As a non-profit limited liability company owned by the Republic of Austria, OeAD receives primary financing from the Austrian Federal Ministry of Women, Science and Research (BMFWF), BMB, BKA, BMWKMS, ADA (Austrian Development Agency), and the European Commission. The grants.at database expansion was financed by the EU.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

OeAD operates grants.at, Austria's largest publicly accessible database for scholarships and research grants, currently hosting more than 1,200 entries across 18 topic areas and administered through a self-service Online Entry System (stima2.scholarships.at). The agency also directly administers named Austrian scholarship and fellowship programmes — including the Ernst Mach Scholarship, Franz Werfel Fellowship, Richard Plaschka Fellowship, and the CEEPUS Central European Exchange Programme for University Studies — on behalf of BMFWF and partner funding organisations.

Product overview

OeAD operates grants.at as its primary online database product - a scholarship and research grant information portal with over 1,200 entries covering all academic disciplines. The database is the central platform through which funding organisations can advertise grants via the Online Entry System. OeAD also administers named scholarship programmes including the Ernst Mach Scholarship Programme (with variants for worldwide, follow-up, and regional partnerships), Franz Werfel Fellowship, Richard Plaschka Fellowship, and manages CEEPUS exchanges. The grants.at platform supports both incoming (international students/researchers coming to Austria) and outgoing (Austrians going abroad) funding searches, with categorisation by subject area, target group, funding type, and country.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• grants.at: Austria's biggest database for scholarships and research grants, containing over 1,200 entries for financial support measures for students, graduates, and researchers.

Products and services

• grants.at grants.at is Austria's largest publicly accessible database for scholarships and research grants, with over 1,200 entries across 18 topic areas. It allows students, doctoral candidates and researchers to search a centralised catalogue of funding opportunities using a multi-criteria search engine with a synonym dictionary covering local terminology (Stipendium, bourse, borsa). Target users are individual applicants seeking Austrian and international scholarships.
• Online Entry System (stima2.scholarships.at) The Online Entry System at stima2.scholarships.at is a self-service tool that enables funding organisations and grant-making bodies to enter and update their scholarship and grant calls without manual intervention, and to forward relevant calls to applicants by email. It is designed for programme officers at public authorities and foundations.
• Ernst Mach Scholarship Programme The Ernst Mach Scholarship Programme is an Austrian government-funded scholarship administered by OeAD on behalf of BMFWF, targeted at students and researchers applying for funding to study or research abroad.
• Franz Werfel Fellowship The Franz Werfel Fellowship is an Austrian government-funded fellowship administered by OeAD on behalf of BMFWF, providing support to students and researchers applying for international stays or research visits.
• Richard Plaschka Fellowship The Richard Plaschka Fellowship is an Austrian government-funded fellowship administered by OeAD on behalf of BMFWF, providing funding support to students and researchers engaged in international academic activity.
• CEEPUS (Central European Exchange Programme for University Studies) CEEPUS is a Central European regional academic exchange programme administered by OeAD, supporting student and teacher mobility within participating Central European countries.

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 1,200 grants, scholarships, research grants, prizes and financial support options available in the database
• +1 more outcomes

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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Feature2 records

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered core, minor and major.

• EURAXESS – Researchers in MotioncoreStrategic or Co-development Partnergrants.at was expanded with financial support of the EU in the framework of EURAXESS – Researchers in Motion. EURAXESS is a Europe-wide initiative supporting researcher mobility and provides links between grants.at and job vacancy databases for researchers and PhD students.
• Federal Ministry of Women, Science and Research (BMFWF)coreOthersBMFWF is the owner representative of the OeAD and co-initiator of grants.at. The ministry holds ownership rights over the OeAD and provides primary financing for its programmes and activities. A maintenance and hosting contract for grants.at database is held with BMFWF.
• Federal Ministry of Education (BMB)minorOthersBMB is one of the primary financiers of the OeAD's programmes and activities.
• Austrian Development Agency (ADA)minorOthersADA provides financing support for OeAD programmes and activities.
• Federal Chancellery (BKA)minorOthersBKA provides financing support for OeAD programmes and activities.
• Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport (BMWKMS)minorOthersBMWKMS provides financing support for OeAD programmes and activities.
• European CommissionmajorOthersThe European Commission provides financing forOeAD programmes and activities including Erasmus+, European Solidarity Corps, and expansion of grants.at database through EURAXESS framework.
• 29 Grant-awarding AuthoritiesmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe OeAD and 29 other grant-awarding authorities collaborate to keep the information at grants.at always up to date. Many funding organisations update their entries themselves, ensuring the database remains current.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Nuffic: Dutch organisation for internationalisation in education. Direct peer — manages scholarship programmes (e.g., Orange Tulip Scholarship, Holland Scholarship), operates an online programme and grant search tool, and is closely comparable to OeAD in mandate and operating model.
• British Council: UK's international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities. Comparable as a state-backed agency administering scholarships (Chevening, Commonwealth), promoting international student mobility, and operating scholarship search tools.
• Institute of International Education (IIE): US non-profit administering Fulbright and other scholarship programmes and operating extensive scholarship/fellowship databases. Direct peer in mission and product surface — central grant database for international academic exchange.
• Euraxess (European Commission): EU-wide pan-European researcher mobility initiative — already integrated with grants.at. Direct peer in the researcher funding discovery layer with overlap on Austrian users; potentially also a partner/upstream channel rather than a pure competitor.
• Fulbright: US-based international educational exchange programme. Comparable as a flagship scholarship administrator with a centralised grants/fellowships database and government-aligned mandate for academic exchange.
• Campus France: France's national agency for the promotion of higher education and international student mobility. Comparable role as a government-backed agency administering scholarships and operating a programme database, with similar non-profit ownership structure.
• DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst): Germany's national agency for international academic cooperation. Direct counterpart to OeAD — also a state-owned non-profit administering scholarships, research grants, and operating a national funding database (DAAD Stipendiendatenbank). Highly comparable mandate, funding model, and product surface.
• ScholarshipPortal: European-wide scholarship search platform (formerly Grantfinder). Direct competitor on the database/discovery layer — provides pan-European scholarship listings and is the closest private-sector analogue to grants.at.
• CIMO (Centre for International Mobility, Finland) / EDUFI: Finland's national agency for international education and scholarship administration (now within the Finnish National Agency for Education). Comparable role as a state agency administering scholarships and operating programme databases, with a similar Nordic governance model.

Regional players

• Movetia: Swiss national agency for exchange and mobility. Comparable mandate (international education and scholarship administration) but Swiss geographic focus, similar to how OeAD is Austria-anchored.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/OeAD_worldwide

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