A short video informs about the development of STI cooperation between Eastern Partnership Countries and the EU. You can watch it here!

On the 9th of May 2019 ZSI organised the 4th Austrian SENSES Stakeholder Meeting. It gave social entrepreneurs and representatives of traditional enterprises, CSR and supporting organisations the possibility...

SSH-Guidelines for mission-oriented research & SSHintegration now available as old-fashioned print version If you want copies (it's a really nice folder), you can download them here.

Seit zehn Jahren gibt es die "Östliche Partnerschaft" der Europäischen Union, die zu einer vertieften Kooperation mit den Ländern in ihrer östlichen Nachbarschaft führen soll. Am 14. Mai lädt EU-Kommissionspräsident...

350 TeilnehmerInnen aus 40 Ländern fanden sich zur Veranstaltung ein und stellten 245 Papers vor. Viele kamen von außerhalb Europas, etwa aus Chile, Argentinien, Kanada, USA, Ghana, Australien, Neuseeland...

Auf Einladung der Museums-Kurator*innen (Georg Spitaler) der neuen Ausstellung im Wien Museum "Das Rote Wien.1919-1934" diskutierten die Stadtgeographin Yvonne Franz, der Aktivist und Experte für Wohnpolitik...

Science-business links (SBL) are an important element of research and innovation (R&I) policies in many countries and are high on the policy agenda of those trying to catch up with the EU’s innovation...

ResInfra@DR project’s mission is to improve framework conditions for research infrastructures (RIs) and innovation in the Danube macro-region. One key objective of the project is to contribute to the ...

Policy makers, representatives of managing authorities, support service organisations, agencies, applied research associations, NGOs, and others who are actively engaged in tackling social progress issues...

https://science.apa.at/dossier/Veraendert_das_Maker_Movement_die_Welt/SCI_20190425_SCI83035587447997174

On behalf of the Excellence-in-ReSTI project consortium, we are pleased to inform you that the Strategy and Roadmap document has been finalized. The document provides a summary of current challenges...

A new publication discusses published in PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America) discusses the question of why we should agree internationally what we consider...

On 24 April 2019, the project HERAS  organised in cooperation with the Ministry of Educations, Science and Technology a workshop in Prishtina to promote the recently developed regulation on innovation...

Last week, on the 16th of April ZSI hosted a Train the Trainer workshop on good practices in the area of second-chance entrepreneurship policies and programmes. A day later the same event was held in ...

Wer Karriere in der Wissenschaft machen will, ist auf Publikationen in renommierten Fachzeitschriften angewiesen. Ein Milliardengeschäft für Elsevier, die Nummer 1 unter den Wissensverlagen. Die Papers...

19 organisations all around Europe are on a mission to map STEAM education outside the classroom in 24 countries as part of the SySTEM 2020 project. Little is known about science learning initiatives ...

This Working Paper builds on the scientific discourse on valuation of SSH research as well as SSH-integration in EU framework programmes and aims at summarizing the key findings from the November 2018...

On April 12, the ESASTAP partners organised a final event at the European Commission with the presence of Director Generals Jean-Eric Paquet (European Commission, DG Research) and Dr. Phil Mjwara (Directorate...

The Horizon 2020 Policy Support Facility (PSF), which is supported by Technopolis, ZSI and the Manchester Institute of Innovation and Research, has published an overview of the Mutual Learning Exercise...

The Energy Social Lab Workshop of the NewHoRRIzon project is going into its second round (4th and 5th of April 2019) in Payerbach, Reichenau an der Rax (AT). Aim for this second lab is to further evolve...

Resinfra@DR’s project mission is to improve framework conditions for research infrastructure (RI) and innovation in the Danube macro-region and to facilitate enhanced transnational cooperation, capacity...

EaP PLUS is a Horizon 2020 funded project supporting the cooperation between researchers from the Eastern Partnership countries and EU Member states. More specifically, the project aims to enhance the...

A delegation of the National Innovation Agency (NIA) of Thailand and representatives of the Thai embassy in Austria visited the Center for Social Innovation today. Lead by Dr. Pun-Arj Chairatana, Executive...

Danube Chance 2.0 – Aus Fehlern lernen Mentoring Workshop für UnternehmerInnen und jene die es noch werden wollen. Scheitern gehört für UnternehmerInnen dazu. Die Hälfte der im EU Raum gegründeten...

Inwieweit tragen die Beratung und Unterstützung von personen mit ausländischen Qualifikationen in der Servicestelle zur Erschließung ausländischer Qualifikationen in München dazu bei, dem Fachkräftemangel...

Launch of the 2019 European Social Innovation Competition: €150,000 for three innovations reducing plastic waste The European Commission launched the 2019 edition of the European Social Innovation ...

    Experts from EU funding institutions and the field of EU project management and practitioners provide you with profound knowledge on all topics related to EU funding.   &...

The EULAC FOCUS project takes up the recent events in Venezuela and links them to the research insights that have been produced by the project. In a "Hot-topic web-conference"  three speakers...

Am 19.3.2019 wurden die Ergebnisse der vom ZSI durchgeführten Studie „Regionalinitative Frauenbeschäftigung - Studie zum Betreuungsbedarf und Betreuungsangebot (Kinder und Pflege) in der Region Obersteiermark...

The purpose of this questionnaire is to provide organisations with the possibility to check their know-how in five areas of EU funding and project management in which the Excellence-in-ReSTI project and...

The European project DOIT invites all young social innovators and makers from 14 to 16 years! Within our online action, we we will work on challenges on the topic "Living Together". We start at 25th of...

Das im Rahmen des Projekts SENSES entwickelte Online-Training ist ab sofort verfügbar. Es kann nach erfolgter Registrierung kostenlos genutzt werden: https://senses.ifka.hu/ Die Materialien vermitteln...

In the framework of the project “Facilitating macro-regional scope and link up to socio-economic actors of Research Infrastructure in the Danube Region - ResInfra@DR”, the Executive Agency for Higher ...

VertreterInnen der EU Kommission, der portugiesischen Regierung, von Städten,  Projekten und Initiativen sozialer Innovation diskutierten die Möglichkeiten und Notwendigkeiten, soziale Innovationen...

On Friday, March 8, the meeting “Social Sciences and Humanities in Horizon Europe” took place on the premises of the Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS), Vienna. As the current EU Research Funding Program...

We are happy to present Vol. 10 of the ResInfra@DR newsletter which showcases once again our joint efforts to strengthen the framework conditions for research infrastructures in the Danube region. The...

One of the principal objectives of the S4D4C project (coordinated by ZSI) is to increase the capacities of EU and EU Member State science diplomats and to offer relevant knowledge resources and training...

In the framework of the project “Facilitating macro-regional scope and link up to socio-economic actors of Research Infrastructure in the Danube Region - ResInfra@DR”, the Executive Agency for Higher ...

On the 28th of February 2019 social entrepreneurs were invited to participate in a knowledge transfer workshop. In the frame of the workshop experts of the broad economic environment of social entrepreneurship...

It moreover helps the commercial success of innovative ideas and products. This is why the Made in Danube is organising Three Open Innovation World Cafés in upcoming months, respectively in Slovakia...

The award-winning film, GlobalCommunities: Our City, Our Say, follows the story of how research in social sciences is making a profound impact on the accessibility and maintenance of electricity ...

at the premises of Hotel Flackl which is located in Reichenau in the Rax-Mountain Region. The NewHoRRIzon social labs have created in the first workshops some co-create tailor-made pilot actions that...

After S4D4C’s 1st Global Meeting on Science Diplomacy took place in Madrid in December last year, we are now proud to announce that our “Madrid Declaration on Science Diplomacy” has been published! ...

Gender inequality is not self-correcting and this is why we have joined our forces!   We are: EQUAL-IST, LIBRA, EFFORTI, Baltic Gender, GENERA, PLOTINA and SAGE and via this ...

On January 30, the final event of the RI-LINKS2UA project titled "Fostering Research and Innovation in Ukraine - The Role of Science in the Ukrainian Innovations Development" was successfully held at ...

Three Open Innovation World Cafes  are scheduled in Hungary, Croatia and Slovakia  in spring 2019. Dates will be announced shortly. The objective through these events is to foster links between...

The RAISE project has the objective to enhance social enterprises competitiveness through improved business support policies. In order to improve these policies, the six regional partners involved in ...

Das Projekt Social(i)Makers zielt darauf ab, soziale Innovation in Zentraleuropa zu stärken. Mit der Social Innovation Academy haben wir 2018 ein transnationales Trainingsprogramm aufgelegt, das auf informative...

The meetings of the second Joint Call of the Southeast Asia-Europe Joint Funding Scheme (JFS) were held on 22-23 January in Bangkok, Thailand, which will result in the joint funding of projects in the...

The BLOOM project offers a 4 modules course starting on 4th of March 2019 and which is free to join. The MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) is built around five lesson plans dedicated to different STEM...