As our anniversary year draws to a close, we can look back on another year full of innovation, research, and collaboration. This year, we have developed even more innovative digital solutions for our three core competencies—Smart Region & Mobility, Health & Sports, and Industry & Infrastructure—to help us overcome complex challenges. Together with our partners, we have created economic and social value and celebrated our 25-year history of successes, research, and breakthroughs.

Smart Region & Mobility

This year, the focus was on mobility transitions and traffic safety. Using vehicle movement data analysis, Salzburg Research developed practical solutions to improve mobility in the region and beyond:

• In collaboration with partners from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, we analyzed over 7,000 overtaking maneuvers and developed practical recommendations to make traffic management safer and more comfortable.
• These recommendations in the form of road markings were tested on Nußdorferstraße in the city of Salzburg to increase traffic safety on narrow streets.
• We have contributed to safer and more climate-friendly mobility by investigating whether multi-purpose lanes with narrow central reservations could improve the safety of cyclists on open roads in three federal states.

Health & Sports

We developed innovative, everyday solutions based on precise movement and sensor data that have noticeably improved training, performance, rehabilitation, and health analyses:

Digital solutions for better training results and performance:

• Together with partners, we have developed and tested a new method for evaluating skiing quality using a sensor-based feedback system.
• In collaboration with Adidas AG, we researched how innovative wearable technology and subjective self-assessments are setting new standards for analyzing training in girls’ football.
• Salzburg Research conducted research into the angle of attack in skiing in an unusual location, thereby paving the way for accurate measurements to be taken directly on the ski slope.

Simpler rehabilitation process:

• In our new flagship project, our goal is to systematically and digitally link the previously separate phases of prehabilitation and rehabilitation. This will help us to achieve a more sustainable healthcare system and improve quality of life.
• Together with its partners, Salzburg Research has developed and tested a digital platform to support, connect, and inform family members caring for people with early-stage dementia.

Digitization of medicine:

• Anna Eleonora Carrozzo, a researcher at Salzburg Research, has developed new statistical methods tailored specifically to the analysis of digital health data.

Industry & Infrastructure

In our core competence area of Industry & Infrastructure, our focus has been on the sustainable energy transition, instruments and recommendations for energy communities, grid quality and stability, and the manufacture of sustainable products:

Sustainable energy transition:

• In collaboration with our partners, we have developed guidance that summarizes practical options and demonstrates how organizations can systematically evaluate edge cloud systems and establish more sustainable digital infrastructures.
• We have outlined in a white paper how shared electric fleets can be used as mobile energy storage devices to improve grid stability and make more efficient use of renewable energy sources.
• In collaboration with our partners in Germany and Austria, we investigated ways to increase the efficiency of AI by 90 percent, with the aim of improving the technology’s ecological balance.

Tools and recommendations for energy communities:

• As part of an EU project, we examined various instruments to make energy community operations more efficient, flexible, and economical.
• We then developed a practical toolbox where energy communities can find suitable forms, recommendations, and real-time insights.

Grid stability and grid quality:

• In collaboration with Commend International GmbH, we have developed an intelligent measurement and monitoring system that analyzes the actual performance of voice and video streams.
• Our researchers investigated how satellite communications could support the process of restoring power following a power outage in the most efficient way possible.

Sustainable product manufacturing:

• As part of a consortium of 21 companies, we investigated the introduction of digital product passports in industry and how they could facilitate the transition to more sustainable production methods.

Our anniversary year: collaboration, research, and added value

2025 marked the 25th anniversary of our journey in research and innovation. We began our anniversary celebrations in March at salz21, where we presented our current projects with a stand and a keynote speech on the main stage. In September, we celebrated our anniversary with our innovators, partners, customers, and sponsors. We would like to thank everyone who has supported us on our journey once again.

Over the course of this year, we have set up two new transfer centers for AI and tourism and secured an extension to the EDIH “Crowd in Motion.” We also created social value and took part in the Charity Challenge 2025 again, raising money through hiking, running, and walking. In order to strengthen cooperation within Science City Itzling, we organized the first after-work gathering, providing an opportunity for interaction and communication. During this year’s company outing, we visited the Werfen Ice Caves and further strengthened our team spirit.

After a busy and innovative year, we are taking a short break. We will return with renewed vigor on 7 January 2026. As every year, we are foregoing Christmas gifts and instead supporting the Anna-Bertha-Königsegg School for severely disabled children in Salzburg. More information: Christmas 2025: Thank You and Christmas Campaign.