Draft-orginally published in: Schön S., Ebner M. (2020) Open Educational Resources in Austria. In: Huang R., Liu D., Tlili A., Gao Y., Koper R. (eds) Current State of Open Educational Resources in the “Belt and Road” Countries. Lecture Notes in Educational Technology. pp 17-33. Springer, Singapore Chapter XX OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES IN AUSTRIA Sandra Schön (BIMS e.V.), Martin Ebner (Graz University of Technology) Abstract: In Austria, located in the center of Europe, comparable early in relation to other German speaking countries in Europe, individuals and groups started to develop and work on the idea of free available and usable learning content in the Internet. A first Austrian milestone was the co-ordination of an international conference on open educational content in 2007 as final activity of the first European project that was focused on OER (olcos.org). Within the contribution an overview of current state and developments of OER-activities in Austria is given, also describing its infrastructure, policy, existing resources, curriculum and teaching methodologies, outcome, stakeholders and impact for education. The chapter gives a comprehensive overview of all OER activities in Austria and outline the benefits for the educational system as well. It can be summarized that the Austrian way seems to be successful even the steps forwards are often small. Key words: MOOC, strategy, Inverse Blended Learning, Innovation 1. AUSTRIA - OVERVIEW AND INTRODUCTION Austria (“Österreich” in German language) is a republic with about 8,8 million inhabitants in the middle of Europe and member of the European Union. Austria has German as its official language.