Austrian National Bank joins IMF and Austria in renewing Joint Vienna Institute cooperation through 2030

The Austrian National Bank said the International Monetary Fund and Austria have renewed their memorandum of understanding on the Joint Vienna Institute for another four years, extending cooperation through 2030. The renewal continues the Vienna-based institute's role as a policy training and capacity-building center for central banks and public institutions across Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Iran and Turkey. Under the arrangement, the Joint Vienna Institute will continue providing courses, seminars, peer-to-peer training and other events on economics, tax and fiscal policy, public administration, structural policy, digitalization and other policy challenges. Since its establishment in 1992, the institute has trained nearly 60,000 experts from 31 countries and recently has hosted almost 100 activities a year, with instruction typically delivered jointly by experts from the International Monetary Fund, Austrian government institutions, the Austrian National Bank and the institute, alongside other international and central bank partners.