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The ARC Communications Research Network (ACoRN) is a network of researchers and research students. ACoRN aims to stimulate creativity, innovation and  breakthrough science, leading to technological advancement in telecommunications. ACoRN is made up of Australian Universities and Industry that are involved in telecommunications research and also has strong collaborative links with international groups, such as NEWCOM.

The Telecommunications Research Center Vienna (ftw.) is the joint research center of leading players in telecom business and science in Austria. Round 60 researchers from all over the world conduct research into telecommunication’s technologies for tomorrow. Each project is defined through dialog between academia and industry and selected on the grounds of their industrial relevance.

With about 40 scientific staff members, the Institute of Communications and Radio-Frequency Engineering (INTHFT) is one of the largest departments of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at Vienna University of Technology. The INTHFT’s research and development efforts emphasize fields of great practical relevance, including mobile communications, optical communications, radio-frequency engineering, rapid prototyping, and signal processing.

NEWCOM (Network of Excellence in Wireless COMmunications) is an European network that links in a cooperative way a large number of leading research groups addressing the Strategic Objective "Mobile and wireless systems beyond 3G", a frontier research area of the Priority Thematic Area of IST.

The Vienna University of Technology was founded in 1815 as Imperial-Royal Polytechnical Institute and was the first University of Technology within present-day German-speaking Europe. Today the university finds high international and domestic recognition in teaching as well as in research and is a highly esteemed partner of innovation oriented enterprises.