The 3rd call for proposals by the Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft for the establishment of new Ludwig Boltzmann research institutes began in November 2008 and was ended in October 2009.

This call for proposals was characterized by the submission of numerous top-quality proposals and eventually resulted in the decision to found the following three new Ludwig Boltzmann Institutes:

• LBI for for Lung Vascular Research
• LBI for Neo-Latin Studies
• LBI for Archaeological Prospection & Virtual Archaeology

More information on these new institutes will be presented here shortly.

The Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft*, which was founded in 1960, is a private sponsor of research establishments in Austria. Its Institutes deal with questions relating to medicine, humanities, social sciences and cultural sciences. It is named after the great Austrian physicist, mathematician and philosopher Ludwig Boltzmann, whose broad scientific interests still remain the basis for the interdisciplinarity of the Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft today.

The LBG, which is financed from public and private resources, is divided into Institutes and Clusters and currently employs more than 250 people. Following a comprehensive organisational reform in 2002, Ludwig Boltzmann Institutes (LBI) have been set up on the basis of calls for proposals and international evaluation procedures. Luwdig Boltzmann Institutes are characterised in particular by their cooperation with institutional partner organisations.

 *"Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft", often abbreviated to "LBG", means "Ludwig Boltzmann Society". As "Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft" and "LBG" are corporate names, they have not been translated.