ZSI and its staff are increasingly involved in a broad variety of academic and vocational education activities. The activities of the institute in this area comprise:  

• The implementation of SOQUA, a post-graduate course for international social-scientific research;
• Launching the first academic online training course in Austria on ‘Energy Management and Energy Consulting’ (EMEC, 1998ff.);
• Designing and establishment of a study programme ‘European Master of Social Innovation’ in collaboration with the Danube University Krems;
• Initiation and implementation of the ‘European School of Social innovation’;
• 30% of ZSI researchers teach at universities, universities of applied sciences and in other educational organisations;
• ZSI’s researchers give at average more than 2.5 presentations per year with a very high international outreach; as well as
• ZSI (co-)organised at annual average more than 70 scientific professional events during the last five years.