New Minister Holzleitner: University strategy for the future!

New Minister Holzleitner: University strategy for the future!

In a trend-setting meeting of the Science Committee on March 12, 2025, the new Federal Minister for Women, Science and Research, Eva-Maria Holzleitner, presented the focus of the government program in the field of science and digitization. From April 1, 2025, she takes responsibility for these ministries and is planning a comprehensive university strategy by 2040, which is to be developed in close consultation with all stakeholders. Holzleitner invites MPs to actively search for the exchange with their department outside of the sessions in order to work together on a future -oriented science policy, such as on ots.at reported.

specific measures in the focus

A central concern of Holzleitner is to strengthen universities as an employer and to enable more permanent employment contracts. In addition, the Federal Government will check the system of ECTS points in order to improve the study and ensure that no talents are lost due to their social background. While current developments in medicine, such as gender medicine, are also to be taken into account, the cooperation between universities and companies is intensified for applied research. Holzleitner emphasizes the need to increase the research rate to 3.5% and to reduce the administrative hurdles for the recruitment of EU funds.

Eva-Maria Holzleitner, who was born on May 5, 1993 in Wels, has been part of the Stocker government since March 3, 2025. Before that, she worked as a member of the National Council and already brought extensive experience in the SPÖ, where she is a federal chairman of the SPÖ, among other things. Her career is characterized by an active role in the political landscape of Austria, with the aim of supporting young people and women in science and research-a topic that is particularly important to her, such as the wikipedia entry shows.