The IAS-STS offers excellent research infrastructure and provides Research Fellows and Visiting Scholars with a workplace equipped with excellent information and communications technology. They all have access to the library of IFZ - with a focus on the main issues of the fellowship programme - and to the university libraries in Graz. Close co-operation with researchers at the IFZ - Inter-University Research Centre for Technology, Work and Culture, which is the Graz unit of the Department of Research on Science and Technology / Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies at Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, guest lectures, workshops and conferences provide an atmosphere of creativity and scholarly discussion.
 
The IAS-STS is integrated into a network of eight universities in Graz: the Graz University of Technology, the University of Graz, the Medical University of Graz the University of Music and Performing Arts, the University of Applied Sciences - FH Joanneum, the University of Applied Sciences Business Studies - Campus 02, the University of Teacher Education and the Tertiary College of Education of the Catholic Church.
A total of some 45,000 students add to the social and cultural life of the city.
 
Graz also hosts JOANNEUM RESEARCH - with its more than 400 researchers one of the largest non-university research institutions in Austria - institutes of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Christian Doppler Laboratories, the European Centre for Modern Languages fo the Council of Europe and the European Training and Research Centre for Human Rights and Democracy .
 
Furthermore a number of science-technology-industry clusters and networks are located in Graz, e. g. the greentech cluster Eco World Styria, the Wood Cluster, the Styrian nanotechnology initiative Nanonet-Styria, the BioNanoNet, the Creative Industries Styria, the Sustainable Vehicle Technologies Competence Center, the Bioenergy 2020+ Competence Center or the Eco-Energy Network Styria.