ASPIS is an independent institution at the University of Klagenfurt offering professional help for traumatized people, especially victims of torture and survivors of the Nazi terror. The association works together with a variety of institutions to be able to combine psychotherapeutic work with scientific research in terms of the Human Rights. With ESRA an innovative and professional organization has been awarded, which was founded to offer comprehensive assistance to the survivors of Nazi persecution and their descendants, as well as to support Jewish families, who have immigrated in recent decades to Austria, in their integration process. The association Hemayat has established itself in Vienna as a center for medical, psychological and psychotherapeutic care for victims of torture and warsurvivors.

With Daniel Barenboim a prominent pianist and director was honoured, who is fully committed to reconciliation in the Middle East conflict. The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, which was founded in 1999 in Weimar by Daniel Barenboim together with the Palestinian born literary theorist Edward Said, is composed of young Israeli and Arab musicians and has now its base in Seville, Spain. 2007 the orchestrawasawardedthePraemiumImperialeGrantforYoungArtists.