Günther Moser, Chairman, Traunkirchen
Address: c/o ZT-Büro Moser, Im Winkl 7, A-4801 Traunkirchen
Tel 07617/253813 or 0664/3085357;
Fax 0043-7612-76790

The association was founded in 1983 and is a union of freelance geologists. It represents, firstly, the interests of a small occupational group and helps to consolidate professional principles as well as technical objectives.
The association consists of an executive body of five and has, in total, just over 30 members who either run an office in Austria themselves, or work as a geologist in a geological office. Membership is spread across all the regions (Bundesländer) and the members meet at least once a year at the Annual General Meeting. In the time between these meetings specialist excursions take place, working groups meet and information is exchanged through correspondence.

The professional authorities represented in the association consist of two groups, namely, "Technical Offices" and "Civil Engineers", which only differ slightly in their field of activities.
Among the main tasks of the association at the moment is, above all, to intensify the cooperation and exchange of information between independent geologists and University Natural Science institutes, central and regional geological services and umbrella organizations such as "The Geological Society" and "The National Committee for Geosciences".