The ICCR Foundation was registered in 2005 as not-for-profit research organisation by the Federation of the Construction Industry of the the Austrian Chamber of Commerce and the City of Vienna. It is an independent, international, non-profit research institute specialized in strategic policy analysis. For its research work, the ICCR employs applied, multi-disciplinary and comparative approaches, with Europe defining the geographical scope. Based in Vienna, Austria, with a liaison office in Paris its scope of activities covers the whole of Europe and beyond.