Institutes for research and technology are affiliated to some schools and colleges for engineering, arts and crafts. They obtain their orders from the business sphere and primarily provide testing, examination and certification services. As a rule, teachers from the relevant school work at the institutes for research and technology. The spatial and personal proximity of classroom instruction to the institutes for research and technology has the effect that the findings and experience made there can be integrated into teaching in a practice-oriented and demonstrable manner. Institutes for research and technology have been set up at the following locations (with their specialisations given in brackets):

HTL Bregenz (Mechanical Engineering)
HTL Dornbirn (Textile Engineering)
HTL Graz - Bulme (Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Technical Computer Science)
HTL Graz - Ortweinschule (Construction Materials)
HTL Innsbruck - Annichstraße (Mechanical Engineering)
HTL Innsbruck - Trenkwalderstraße (Construction Materials)
HTL Mödling (Construction Materials)
HTL Pinkafeld (Automation Technology)
HTL Rankweil (Construction Engineering)
HTL St. Pölten (Mechanical Engineering)
HTL Villach (Construction Materials)
HTL Waidhofen (Mechanical Engineering and Materials Testing)
HTL Wiener Neustadt (Construction Materials)
HTL Wien 3 (Construction Materials, Soil Construction and Soil Mechanics)
HTL Wien 5 (Textile Engineering)
HTL Wien 14 (Reproduction and Printing Technology)
HTL Wien 17 (Industrial Chemistry)
HTL Wien 20 - TGM (Acoustics & Construction Physics, Construction Material & Silicate Technology, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Heating and Ventilation, Plastics & Environmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering)

Link to the Association of State Institutes for Research and Technology at HTLs website in German (Verband staatlicher Versuchsanstalten an Höheren Technischen Lehranstalten)