The following university-wide research priorities are outlined in JKU's current development plan:

• Digital Transformation: The primary focus is digitalization as its impact extends far beyond technological development itself. Digitalization's enormous potential can only unfold once integrated in various fields, which is why academic disciplines at the JKU have been asked to incorporate this area in its focus area.
• Sustainable Development: Responsible Technologies & Management: The JKU's academic and scientific disciplines address many core areas relating to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, opens an external URL in a new window as defined by the United Nations. As society's forward-thinking hub with a vision of the future in mind, research conducted in this area at the JKU contributes significantly toward promoting sustainable development, especially given the current global climate crisis and the threat posed to vital resources.

Several research labs and international research groups at the Linz Institute of Technology (LIT) conduct application-oriented technological research, including research into artificial intelligence and cyber security.

Research at the new Kurt Rothschild School of Economics and Statistics focuses on epidemiology and public health, the future of the workplace, and data science.

It is not easy to accurately evaluate the quality of academic excellence. To ensure high quality, the JKU complies with several generally accepted guidelines, taking various measures into account:

• A commitment, opens a file to the European Charta for Researchers and the Code of Conduct for their Recruitment, opens a file
• Guidelines to Safeguard Good Scientific Practices, opens a file
• Ombuds Office to Safeguard Good Scientific Practice
• Plan to Institutionalize Equitable Opportunities and Statement of Commitment to Horizon Europe's Gender Equality Plan Requirements, opens a file
• Open Science Policy Austria, opens a file
• Acquiring international evaluators to review subject areas, institutes, research projects, project applications, publications
• Taking part in international rankings

Many JKU researchers have been presented with prestigious awards and accolades and the university is partnered with numerous other research institutions and business partners around the world. We have many diverse, successful patent applications, demonstrating that research conducted at the JKU is of exceptional quality.