The project “Current and Future Challenges in the Academic Profession (Future-AP)” is a continuation of the project “The Academic Profession in the Knowledge-Based Society (APIKS)” and focusses on the working conditions of academic and artistic staff. With the participation of more than 40 research teams worldwide (including Canada, USA, Australia, Brazil, Argentina, Japan, Hong Kong, China, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Finland, Great Britain, Germany, Switzerland, Ghana, Cameroon and South Africa), it focuses on the attitudes of staff at universities and colleges in the areas of research, teaching and participation in university governance. Also new in the Future-AP survey is the focus on academic freedom, academic standards, and sustainability.
The Department of Higher Education Research plays a coordinating role in the consortium and is also actively researching the situation in all four Austrian higher education sectors: public universities, universities of applied sciences, private universities, public and private university colleagues of teacher education.
