Austria

Official relations

Joined UNESCO: 13 August 1948

Head of State and/or Government in relation with UNESCO

Federal President: H.E. Mr Heinz FISCHER
Federal Chancellor: H.E. Dr Alfred GUSENBAUER

Permanent Delegation to UNESCO

H. E. Mr Hubert Heiss
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Austria to France, Permanent Delegate (3/17/2008)

Permanent Delegation of Austria to UNESCO
Maison de l'UNESCO Bureau M7.25 1, rue Miollis 75732 PARIS Cedex 15
Telephone: 01.45.68.34.57
Fax: 01.47.83.26.25
E-mail: dl.austria@unesco.org

National Commission for UNESCO

President: Dr. Eva Nowotny
Secretary-General: Ms Gabriele Eschig

Austrian Commission for UNESCO
Universitätsstraße 5/4. Floor/12 A-1010 VIENNA AUSTRIA
Telephone: (43-1) 526 13 01
Fax: (43-1) 526 13 01 - 20
E-mail: oeuk@unesco.at, eschig@unesco.at (SG)
Web site: http://www.unesco.at

Representation on the Executive Board

Title	Name	Years	Sessions
Membre	Mr Kurt Blaukopf	1972-1976	90-100
Representative		1995-1999	148-157

Note: The 1991 amendment modified Article V of the Constitution, with respect to the status of members of the Board, which with effect from the 27th session of the General Conference (1993) consists of Member States rather than of persons (26 C/Resolution 19.3).

Participation in subsidiary organs

Subsidiary organs of the General Conference


• International Coordinating Council of the Programme on Man and the Biosphere
  Member (Term expires : 35th General Conference)


• Intergovernmental Committee for Physical Education and Sport
  Vice-President : Sepp Redl

Member (Term expires : 36th General Conference)

• Intergovernmental Council for the Information for All Programme
  Bureau Member : Mr Dietrich Schüller

Member (Term expires : 36th General Conference)

Other intergovernmental organs


• Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
  Member


• Intergovernmental Committee for the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions
  Member (Term expires : 2009)

UNESCO institutes and centres


• Council of the UNESCO International Bureau of Education
  Member (Term expires : 35th General Conference)

Celebration of anniversaries

Hundredth anniversary of the discovery of blood groups by Karl Landsteiner (2000)

300th anniversary of the foundation of Wroclaw University (2002)

100th anniversary of the birth of Sir Karl Popper (2002)

250th anniversary of the birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer (1756-1791) (2006)

150th anniversary of the birth of Sigmund Freud, psychologist and psychoanalyst (1856-1939) (2006)

100th anniversary of the award of the Nobel Prize to Bertha von Suttner (2006)

200th anniversary of the death of Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) (2009)