IESTA is a combined industrial/academic research and consulting association for innovative mobility and energy systems. The institute creates strategic partnerships between innovative Austrian and European enterprises, top listed research facilities and policy-makers in the area of research, technology development and innovation. IESTA offers state of the art methodology for systematic creation of solutions. Its strength lies in effective and efficient management of the whole innovation process from basic and applied research, development, testing, prototyping and demonstration, to communication, dissemination and exploitation of results.

The IESTA portfolio comprises:

Comprehensive R&D Project Management Services

• Initiation of multi-firm consortia
• Coordination & authoring of funding proposals
• Execution, monitoring and controlling of european, national and regional projects
• Handling of large consortia and large project volumes

Platform for Innovation and Communication

• Utilization of systematic innovation methods
• Formation of consortia on national and international level

Studies and Consulting services on

• Smart/Cooperative Mobility
• Alternative Propulsion Technologies
• Energy Conversion and Energy Efficiency Analyses

In the last few years IESTA has successfully supported both industry and academia with:

• 5 EU projects: Overall budget over 160 Mio Euro
• 11 projects on national level: Overall budget over 30 Mio Euro

Some of the most recent projects, which IESTA coordinated the proposal phase and is partner of the projects are two Austrian flagship projects
FC-IMPACT (Increasing Market Penetration of FC Cars by efficient system solutions),
Test.EPS (ESTING AND VERIFICATION METHODS FOR AUTOMATED DRIVING FUNCTIONS AND ENVIRONMENTAL PERCEPTION SYSTEM) etc.

and some EU-funded projects
HiPE (High Performance Power Electronics Integrations),
GIANTS (High Performance Power Electronics Integrations).

Some of the renowned partners of IESTA are: