In 2017, the annual International Conference on Health Promoting Hospitals and Health Services (International HPH Conference) will be hosted by the Austrian Network of Health Promoting Hospitals and Health Care Institutions (ONGKG), which was already involved into previous International HPH Conferences. The conference venue will be the University of Vienna, one of the oldest universities in Europe. Thus, for its 25th anniversary the conference will be held in the city where HPH has its origins. The Austrian network, founded already in 1996, has made valuable contributions to the international HPH Network, not least by serving on HPH Task Forces and by providing new scientific and practical inputs through its close collaboration with the WHO Collaborating Centre for Health Promotion in Hospitals and Health Care in Vienna.