India and Republic of Austria signed two agreements during the visit of the President of India, Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil. The agreements were signed on October 5, 2011 at Vienna. One was the MoU between the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India and the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and the second was the MoU on Technology -Specific Cooperation in the field of Railways.