IfGP

What IfGP does

IfGP (Institut für Gesundheitsförderung und Prävention GmbH) is a private limited company headquartered in Graz, Austria, that operates as a subsidiary of the Österreichische Sozialversicherung (Austrian Social Insurance). Founded in 2008 and employing 11–50 staff, the organisation delivers consulting, scientific research, programme evaluation, and training services across six practice areas: occupational health promotion (Betriebliche Gesundheitsförderung, BGF), children's and youth health, health in old age, health literacy (Gesundheitskompetenz), tobacco control, and health promotion in primary care.

Its service portfolio centres on four operational pillars. (i) Training and continuing education through the IfGP-Academy and BGM-Academy, which deliver BGF/BGM curricula in cooperation with the Österreichisches Netzwerk BGF and issue credentials for workplace health managers. (ii) Validated measurement instruments, most notably QUIGK-K, a 40-item health literacy quiz for 3rd/4th-grade children built on four cognitive processes and five content domains. (iii) Operational programmes such as the Rauchfrei Telefon smoking-cessation hotline run jointly with BVAEB, and analysis of the European Tobacco Control Scale. (iv) Platform-level participation in the Österreichische Plattform Gesundheitskompetenz (ÖPGK) and co-organisation of the triennial BGF-Preis workplace health award.

The business model is institutional rather than transactional. Revenue flows from commissioned projects and programme funding originating with the umbrella Austrian Social Insurance organisation (Dachverband), the principal social insurance carriers (ÖGK, BVAEB), and partner bodies including Fonds Gesundes Österreich and Gesundheit Österreich GmbH; secondary revenue comes from fee-based training through the Academy and contract evaluations for Austrian enterprises. The technology layer is a web-based information portal (ifgp.at) with Piwik analytics; integrations are limited to social-insurance IT providers (SVC for hosting, x-tention for data protection officer services). No public API, mobile app, or external SDK is offered, and certifications cover GDPR/DSGVO compliance and partial WCAG 2.2 Level AA accessibility. Geographic scope is restricted to Austria.

Name

IfGP

Legal name

Institut für Gesundheitsförderung und Prävention GmbH

Website

https://ifgp.at

Company type

Private

Founded year

2008

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

IfGP is an Austrian health promotion and prevention institute, operating as a subsidiary of the Österreichische Sozialversicherung. It delivers consulting, research, evaluation, and training in workplace health promotion, health literacy, tobacco control, children's and youth health, and primary-care prevention across Austria.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Public Health Consulting Services

NAICS

Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services (541690), Scientific Research and Development Services (5417)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742), Services-Commercial Physical & Biological Research (8731)

akta.pro primary industry

Program Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (MEL) (HLAJANAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

State/Provincial Health Department & Public Health Administration (BPAIABAH), Chronic Disease & NCD Program Evaluation (e.g., diabetes/CVD/cancer) (HLAJANAG), Economic Evaluation & Health Technology Assessment (Public Programs) (HLAJANAL), Health, Wellness & Lifestyle Noncredit Programs (EDAAAEAH)

Keywords

• Health promotion consulting
• Workplace wellness programs
• Health literacy research
• Tobacco control services
• Preventive health training

Headquarters

HQ city

Graz

HQ country

Austria

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Others

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

IfGP provides consulting, research, evaluation, and program development services in health promotion and prevention. The institute conducts scientific studies, develops measurement instruments (e.g., QUIGK-K health literacy quiz), delivers professional training through its IfGP Academy and BGM-Academy, and supports workplace health promotion (Betriebliche Gesundheitsförderung), tobacco control, health literacy, and child/youth and elderly health initiatives.

Product overview

IfGP (Institut für Gesundheitsförderung und Prävention GmbH) operates as an institutional health promotion and prevention organization rather than a software product company. The organization offers a portfolio of educational programs (IfGP Academy, BGM-Academy), assessment tools (QUIGK-K health literacy quiz), and health promotion services including scientific studies, evaluations, and consulting on health-competent organizations. Services span occupational health (BGF), children's and youth health, health literacy, aging, and tobacco control. The organization functions as a subsidiary of the Austrian Social Security system and provides its services primarily through consulting, training, and research rather than software products.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• IfGP-Academy: Training and continuing education programs for health promotion professionals
• KombiAG
• BGM-Academy
• Österreichische Plattform Gesundheitskompetenz (ÖPGK)

Products and services

• IfGP Academy

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Integration1 record

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Österreichisches Netzwerk BGFcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCore partner for workplace health promotion (Betriebliche Gesundheitsförderung) in Austria. Collaborates on BGF certification, guidelines, and the BGF-Preis (BGF Award) triennially.
• Fonds Gesundes Österreich (FGÖ)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-organizer of the BGF-Preis (BGF Award) and partner in health promotion initiatives. FGÖ is a key funding body for health promotion in Austria.
• Gesundheit Österreich GmbHcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerStrategic partner in health promotion, prevention, and health literacy initiatives in Austria. Collaborates on primary care health promotion implementation.
• Dachverband der österreichischen SozialversicherungencoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerParent organization providing strategic direction. IfGP operates as a subsidiary implementing health promotion projects commissioned by the social insurance umbrella organization.
• Medizinische Universität GrazminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcademic partner for the Public Health postgraduate program and collaborative research projects in health promotion and prevention.
• BVAEB (Versicherungsanstalt öffentlich Bediensteter, Eisenbahnen und Bergbau)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSocial insurance carrier partner. IfGP provides health promotion services as part of the BVAEB's health offerings, including tobacco cessation programs like Rauchfrei Telefon.
• ÖGK (Österreichische Gesundheitskasse)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPrimary Austrian health insurance provider and key partner for implementing health promotion programs and initiatives.

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Emerging players

• Trimbos Institute: Dutch national knowledge center on mental health, substance use and public health. Comparable as a publicly-funded research-and-implementation institute that combines program evaluation, training and policy monitoring in health promotion — a niche structurally analogous to IfGP's tobacco-control and BGF evaluation work.
• Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH): Swiss public-health R&D and consulting institute linked to the University of Basel. Comparable because it conducts health-program evaluation, health-systems research and prevention studies for government and insurance clients — the same consulting/evaluation service model IfGP runs in Austria.

Broad incumbents

• Robert Koch Institute (RKI): German federal institute for disease control and prevention, combining surveillance, research and program evaluation. Comparable to IfGP's surveillance and program-evaluation activities (e.g., Tobacco Control Scale monitoring) but with a much broader infectious and chronic disease remit.
• Santé publique France: French national public-health agency operating surveillance, prevention and health-promotion programs including tobacco control. Comparable to IfGP because it operates in the same public-health program-evaluation, surveillance and health-promotion space, but at much larger national-agency scale.
• Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung (BZgA): German federal agency for health education and health promotion. Comparable as a larger, established statutory body delivering population-level prevention, health-literacy and tobacco-control programs across Germany — the same mandate IfGP fulfills for Austria but at much greater scale.

Direct peers

• EuroHealthNet: European partnership of public-health bodies working on health promotion, prevention and health inequalities. Comparable because IfGP operates in the same health-promotion / health-literacy / prevention-evaluation niche EuroHealthNet represents at the EU level, including workplace health and NCD prevention.
• Gesundheit Österreich GmbH (GÖG): Austrian national public-health research, planning and consulting institute. Closely comparable to IfGP because both serve the Austrian social insurance and federal health system with program evaluation, prevention research, and health-literacy services, and IfGP lists GÖG as a core strategic partner.
• Fonds Gesundes Österreich (FGÖ): Austrian national competence and funding body for health promotion, co-organizing the BGF-Preis with IfGP. Comparable because it operates in the same Austrian BGF / health-promotion ecosystem, sets program standards and funds the same employer-health-promotion initiatives IfGP evaluates and trains for.

Others

• Sozialversicherungsanstalt (SV) - Austrian umbrella infrastructure: Austrian social-insurance umbrella institution (parent context). Not a direct peer, but the principal ecosystem in which IfGP operates; included because the structure of IfGP's business is inseparable from how SV carriers commission and fund prevention work in Austria.

Regional players

• Public Health Agency of Sweden (Folkhälsomyndigheten): Swedish national public-health agency responsible for population health monitoring, prevention and health-promotion programs. Comparable because it delivers a similar mandate (surveillance, prevention evaluation, health-literacy programs) that IfGP carries out in Austria, though at national-agency scale.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/ifgp-at

Compliance2 records

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Funding overview

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