The Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Fundamental and Human Rights (LBI-GMR)

The Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Fundamental and Human Rights is the largest extramural research
institute in its field in Austria. It advances human rights research, fosters a human rights-based
approach, and contributes to improving the human rights realities of individuals in Austria and
abroad by combining basic and applied research. Internationally recognised experts are committed
to the highest standards of academic excellence and intend to ensure the positive societal impact of
its research. The Institute’s research is current, international, translational and has an
interdisciplinary outlook. As part of the translational approach, the institute is involved in
international and national teaching activities; its researchers teach at the University of Vienna, in the
framework of several human rights master’s programmes and in programmes that strengthen the
human rights knowledge of judges and executive agents.
Human rights-related challenges change as human society evolves and the institute, in order to fulfil
its mandate, has to be responsive with respect to a broad array of questions. Accordingly, it has
identified core topics which define its research: Aslyum and Migration, Human Dignity and Public
Security, (In-)Equalities and Non-Discrimination, Rule of Law and Public Sector Reform and
Sustainability, Development, Business and Social and General Human Rights Issues. The institute also
has long-running expertise in the field of children’s rights and the prevention of trafficking in human
beings.