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Decoration for Peter Fredericks
Former Austrian Consul in San Francisco receives high decoration.
Austrian Cadets at West Point
For more than ten years, the Austrian Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt and the United States Military Academy in West Point, NY have been conducting a semester long exchange program of six cadets each.
Embassy Adoption Program School Visit
On December 12th, 2022, Austrian diplomats visited Sousa Middle School, the Embassy’s partner school within the Embassy Adoption Program.
Orange the World - We can end violence against women
Orange the World - We can end violence against women.
Austrian State Secretary Florian Tursky visits Washington, DC and New York, NY
October 29-31, 2022, Austrian State Secretary Florian Tursky visited New York, NY. There he met with United Nations Envoy on Technology Amandeep Singh Gill on October 31.
Austrian Secretary-General for Foreign Affairs Peter Launsky-Tieffenthal in Washington, DC
Austrian Secretary-General for Foreign Affairs Peter Launsky-Tieffenthal visited Washington, DC between October 30 and November 1, 2022. On October 31, Secretary-General Launsky-Tieffenthal met with Special-Envoy for Holocaust Issues Ellen Germain as well as the American Jewish Committee to discuss Holocaust education and the fight against anti-Semitism.
Austrian Start-Up Landing Zone in San Francisco
Nine Austrian startups were selected to venture out on a unique journey to be challenged, accelerated, and pushed beyond their limits in a four week long GoUSA (formerly GoSiliconValley) Startup Landing Zone program in San Francisco throughout the month of October at Open Austria, the joint office of the Federal Ministry of European and International Affairs and the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber.