Austrian Latin America Institute

The Austrian Latin America Institute coordinates the Interdisciplinary Master Degree Programme in Latin-American Studies (Interdisziplinärer Universitätslehrgang für Höhere Lateinamerika-Studien) in cooperation with the University of Vienna. This is the only[1] "university level" course about Latin America in Austria. The degree is Master of Arts in Latin American studies.

The Austrian Latin America Institute has the only library and documentation centre in Austria specializing in Latin America. The collection focuses on specialist books and journals on economy, politics, history, culture, society and ecology of the Latin American countries. Furthermore, it has literary works by Latin American authors in Spanish and Portuguese and their translations. The library represents Austria in REDIAL.

The Austrian Latin America Institute is Austria's largest language school for Spanish, Portuguese and Indigenous languages offering about 300 courses annually.

The Austrian Latin America Institute offers information and advice to all people interested in Latin America and Latin American students in particular.

The event calendar includes exhibitions, book presentations, concerts, lectures and discussions.

The Austrian Latin America Institute itself is no research institute, but it supports the Austrian Study-Group for Latin-American Research (Arbeitsgemeinschaft Österreichische Lateinamerikaforschung). The object of this association is scientific networking, interdisciplinary exchange and cooperation of researchers in Austria. It regards itself as an open forum offering young scientists the opportunity to present and discuss their work. In 2007 the Study-Group had 108 members from Austria, Europe and Latin America. The annual conference is held in Strobl am Wolfgangsee. The Study-Group was founded in 1983 by members of the Austrian Latin America Institute and is partner of CEISAL (Consejo Europeo de Investigaciones Sociales de América Latina).

• Atención: Jahrbuch des Österreichischen Lateinamerika-Instituts. Yearbook with scholarly articles in German, Spanish and English
• Investigaciones: Forschungen zu Lateinamerika. Publication by the Austrian Study-Group for Latin-American Research in which master thesis and dissertations are made accessible to a wider audience

• Ibero-American Institute

• Marcus Klein: Marcus Klein: “Latin America Studies in Austria: An Overview“, in: Revista Europea de Estudios Latinoamericanos y del Caribe (Ed. by CEDLA, University of Amsterdam), 72, April 2002.
• Gerhard Drekonja-Kornat (Ed.): Lateinamerikanistik – der österreichische Weg. LIT, Münster u. a. 2005, ISBN 3-8258-8651-4.

• Spanish web site
• German web site