The Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft (LBG) is a research institution with a thematic focus on medicine, life sciences and the hu ... manities, and is specifically targeting new research topics in Austria. Together with academic and implementing partners, the LBG is currently running 19 institutes and develops and tests new forms of collaboration between science and non-scientific actors such as companies, the public sector and civil society. Socially relevant challenges, to which research can contribute, are to be recognized at an early stage and taken up. The LBG Open Innovation in Science Center, which unlocks the potential of open innovation for science, and the LBG Career Center, which supports 200 pre- and postdocs, as well as two new research groups on mental health are part of the LBG. The LBG employs 550 people. read more