Pulitzer Prize Winner Christo Buschek is a programmer and data journalist who focuses on combining data-driven research and storytelling in order to uncover human rights violations and strengthen social justice. Among other things, the software he developed was used to expose war crimes in the ongoing war in Syria. Buschek also trains NGO employees and ...
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By U.S. Embassy Austria | 22 November, 2021 | Topics: Education, Events, Human Rights, Science & Tech | Tags: Amerika Haus, data protection, human rights, research
The Embassy hosted a virtual live talk and discussion with Dean Cheng, Senior Research Fellow for Asian Studies at
The Heritage Foundation , where he specializes in China’s military and foreign policy, in particular the communist regime’s relationship with its Asian neighbors and the United States. Mr. Cheng discussed China’s foreign policy priorities and efforts to reshape the ...
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By U.S. Embassy Austria | 8 July, 2020 | Topics: Business, Events, Human Rights, Policy, Political Affairs, Trade | Tags: Amerika Haus, China, coronavirus, COVID-19, cyber security, cybersecurity, discussion, disinformation, fake news, government officials, politics, uighurs
“China’s view of the world differs from that held by Western democracies and their rule of law.” Dean Cheng, Senior Research Fellow at
The Heritage Foundation and an expert in China’s military and foreign policy, was in Austria this week at the invitation of the U.S. Embassy for a series of program events in Vienna and Linz. Mr. ...
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By U.S. Embassy Austria | 28 January, 2020 | Topics: Economic Affairs, Events, Policy, Political Affairs, Public Affairs, Science & Tech | Tags: Amerika Haus, business, China, cyber security, cybersecurity, discussion, disinformation, foreign policy, politics
The Embassy invited Richard Fontaine, CEO of the think tank Center for a New American Security (CNAS), to Austria for discussions of the transatlantic partnership in an era of great power competition. Mr. Fontaine gave interviews to Die Presse and Tiroler Tageszeitung and talked at the Management Center Innsbruck and the Amerika Haus in Vienna. ...
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By U.S. Embassy Austria | 28 March, 2019 | Topics: Economic Affairs, Events, Political Affairs, U.S. & Austria | Tags: Amerika Haus, Aussenwirtschaft Austria, CEO, discussion, foreign policy, industry, investor, Richard Fontaine, SelectUSA, transatlantic partnership, transatlantic relations
On June 14, the three winners of the video contest on the occasion of “70 Years Marshall Plan in Austria” were awarded prizes by Ambassador Trevor Traina and Mag. Edeltraud Stiftinger from the Austria Wirtschaftsservice. These are the prize-winning videos: 1st prize – “70th Anniversary Marshall Plan in Austria”, submitted by students from the
BRG Körösi in ...
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By U.S. Embassy Austria | 14 June, 2018 | Topics: Events | Tags: Amerika Haus, celebration, cultural exchange, European Recovery Fund, exchange program, Marshall plan, transatlantic relations, Trevor Traina
This year’s Marshall Plan Fellows received their certificates on June 6 at Amerika Haus, with U.S. Ambassador Trevor Traina and Dr. Wolfgang Petritsch, Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation, present. The Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation supports academic exchange between students and researchers from Austria and the United States, with the goal to deepen relationships between both countries ...
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By U.S. Embassy Austria | 6 June, 2018 | Topics: Events | Tags: Amerika Haus, celebration, cultural exchange, European Recovery Fund, exchange program, Marshall plan, transatlantic relations, Trevor Traina
