Information:

www.adoptionsberatung.at.  (Website under construction!)

https://www.help.gv.at/Portal.Node/hlpd/public/content/8/Seite.080500.html

https://www.wien.gv.at/menschen/kind-familie/adoption/

Contact persons for preparatory classes:

Lower Austria: http://peter-pan.at/

Upper Austria: http://www.planb-ooe.at/index.php?id=236

Styria: https://pflegefamilie.at/

Carinthia: https://www.ktn.gv.at/Themen-AZ/Details?thema=5&subthema=28&detail=30

Salzburg: https://www.salzburg.gv.at/soziales_/Seiten/ein_kind_adoptieren.aspx

Tyrol: https://www.caritas-tirol.at/hilfe-angebote/familien/beratungszentrum/adoptionsberatung/

With focus on international adoption:

Austrian authorities:

Ministry for Justice

Department I 10
Post box 63
1016 VIENNA
Tel: 01/52152 2134
E-Mail: robert.fucik[at]bmj.gv.at

Land government of Vienna

Municipal department 11
Department II – Law
Rüdengasse 11
1030 VIENNA
Tel: 01/4000 90714
http://www.wien.gv.at/ma11/seiten/index.htm

Land government of Lower Austria

Department GS/6
Landhausplatz 1, House 14
3109 ST.
PÖLTEN
Tel: 02742/9005 16412
http://www.noel.gv.at/Gesellschaft-Soziales/Familien/Adoption.html

Land government of Lower Austria

Youth welfare department
Altstadt 30
4010 LINZ
Tel.: 0732 7720 5650
http://www.ooe.gv.at

Land government of Salzburg

Department 3 – Social affairs
Fanny-von-Lehnert-Strasse 1
Postbox 527
5010 SALZBURG
Tel: 0662/8042 3580
https://www.salzburg.gv.at/soziales_/Seiten/ein_kind_adoptieren.aspx

Land government of Styria

Youth welfare department
Hofgasse 3
8010 GRAZ
Tel: 0316/877 3090
htttp://www.verwaltung.steiermark.at

Land government of Burgenland

Department 6 – Social affairs
Landhaus
Europaplatz 1
7001 EISENSTADT
Tel: 02682/600 2330
http://www.bgld.gv.at

Land government of Carinthia

Department 13 – Social affairs, youth, family and women
Arnulfplatz 2
9201 KLAGENFURT
Tel: 0463/5363 1331
http://www.ktn.gv.at

Land government of Tyrol

Youth welfare department
Wilhelm Greil Strasse 25
6020 INNSBRUCK
Tel: 0512/508 2642
http://www.tirol.gv.at/bezirke/adoption.shtml

Land government of Vorarlberg

Department IV a
Landhaus
6901 BREGENZ
Tel: 05574/5112 4119
http://www.vorarlberg.at

Ministry of Foreign Affairs

http://www.bmaa.gv.at/

Hague Convention:

You can find detailed information on the Hague Convention here: https://www.hcch.net/en/instruments/conventions/specialised-sections/intercountry-adoption

Text of the Hague Convention:
https://www.hcch.net/en/instruments/conventions/full-text/?cid=69

Countries that have signed the Hague Convention:
https://www.hcch.net/en/instruments/conventions/status-table/?cid=69