Pioneers in Austria Part 1

My first post may rise the attitude that Austria is not forward looking and innovative in terms of Online Media and Web developement. Well, in contradiction to that I want to point out, that there are many institutions and people that are highly engaged and innovative in order to bring that developement forward. Institutions like the IAP, companies like Microsoft and also the government (and of course many more) do a lot for getting excellent in this area.

For today I want to present one of these effort in more detail.

The city of Vienna shows that they can do more than dancing walz and beeing traditional. For a international hub like Vienna creative Innovatoin and technological progess are vitally important. With the foundation “departure” Vienna takes this into account.

The Foundation focuses on longterm support and creative industries and has a leading role in this area in Europe.

With the general focus on creative industries departure supports extraordinary and visionary projects in the field of a.o. fashion, music, audiovison, architecture and multi media design.

In this context the “Lifestyle Advertising”  Award took place. 7 projects out of 46 are the winners of all together 1 million Euro. The projects all treat with the topic of shifting communication in a convergent time and have different faces like webradio or web-plattforms for the movie scene.

More information on this great projects and the foundation itself under http://www.departure.at/