Austrian Service Abroad
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Key facts
- Type
- Non-profit organization
- Focus
- Holocaust remembrance , antisemitism , anti-fascism , humanitarian aid , development aid , peace movement , environmental protection
- Headquarters
- Vienna , Austria
- Region served
- Global
- Services
- Volunteering service, national service alternatives
- Method
- Education, study trips, seminars, workshops, awards
- Fields
- Memoria ( remembrance ), misericordia ( mercy ), pax ( peace )
- Chairman
- Tobias Aigner
- Website
- www .auslandsdienst .at /en
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- organization
- Country
- Austria
- Founded by
- Andreas Maislinger
- Official website
- www.auslandsdienst.at
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- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- inception
- 1998-00-00
- Commons category
- Austrian Service Abroad
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Encyclopedic overview
The Austrian Service Abroad (German: Auslandsdienst Österreichs) is a non-profit organization funded by the Austrian government which sends young Austrians to work in partner institutions worldwide serving Holocaust commemoration in form of the Austrian Memorial Service, supporting vulnerable social groups and sustainability initiatives in form of the Austrian Social Service and realizing projects of peace within the framework of the Austrian Peace Service. The Austrian Service Abroad is the issuer of the annually conferred Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award.
General information
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Austrian Service Abroad” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.