ZSI offers a broad mix of qualitative and quantitative social scientific methods and management and process tools, including many participatory approaches ranging from easy-applied techniques to comprehensive foresight exercises, in order to implement robust evidence-based policy analysis. Our policy analysis is tailor-made to the specific needs of our customers and their problems. It is inclusive and aims to provide socially accepted guidance.

Improving quality & upholding standards
Peer reviews are one of the methods applied by ZSI to enable appraisal and learning. Peer reviews may relate to different levels, such as institutions, straightforward intervention areas in specific sub-fields of policy, or large policy areas. Examples include STI Policy Mix peer reviews in Kazakhstan and Moldova, or peer reviews of public employment services conducted across several European countries. The links below provide detailed examples.

If you are interested in our competences on policy analysis and peer review, please feel free to get in touch with us.
 

Contact person: Mag. Dr. Klaus Schuch

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Cooperation Partners

• Austrian Institute of Technology

Projects

• Austrian Research and Technology Reports 2023-2026
• Welfare systems and labour market policies for economic and social resilience in Europe
• Gender Equality Plan für die FH Wiener Neustadt
• R&I POLICY making, implementation ANd Support in the WEsteRn BalkanS
• Kooperationen öffentlicher Universitäten und Fachhochschulen
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• Datenexzellenz_data governance
• Kooperationen in Lehre und Forschung zwischen Österreich und Nordamerika
• Platform for a policy evaluation community for improved EU policies and better acknowledgment
• Untangling the impacts of technological transformations, globalisation and demographic change to foster shared prosperity in Europe
• Policy Support Facility Malta
• Assessing progress towards the ERA integration of the associated ENP countries
• Studie zur österreichischen Wissenschaftsdiplomatie
• ISF - Foresight study on Research and Innovation in the Western Balkans
• Science Transformation in EuroPe through Citizens involvement in HeAlth, coNservation and enerGy rEsearch
• ISF Support to the Knowledge Network on China
• ISF Data Gathering on the participation of Switzerland and Israel to Horizon 2020
• PSF Specific Support to Malta on the Development of a National Open Access policy
• Participatory Real Life Experiments in Research and Innovation Funding Organisations on Ethics
• Co­designing Citizen Social Science for Collective Action
• Benchmarking concept for biotechnology research
• Foresight on Demand "Adaptation to Climate Change including Societal Transformation"
• ISF Supporting Horizon 2020 National Contact Points in EU Partner Countries - phase 2
• Evaluation of i2Business Angels und AWS Business Angel Fonds
• Strengthening Research Development and Innovation in Higher Education in Azerbaijan
• PSF Peer Review Estonia
• Support to the implementation of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region in Austria
• Quality, Accountability, Integrity and Transparency in Higher Education
• Uptake of European Programmes in the CEEPUS cooperation area
• PSF MLE on National strategies and roadmaps for international cooperation in R&I
• Übersicht über FTI-Förderung in Brasilien und Afrika
• Austrian Research and Technology Report 2019-2022
• National Strategies and roadmaps for international cooperation in Research & Innovation
• Pilot Project on the Social Progress Index
• Evaluation of Frontrunner Strategy
• Embracing failure to facilitate second-chance entrepreneurship in the Danube region
• Geistes-, sozial- und kulturwissenschaftliche Aspekte in FFG geförderten Innovationen
• Using science for/in diplomacy for addressing global challenges
• Digitalisierung – Industrie 4.0 – Arbeit 4.0 – Gender 4.0
• PSF Specific Support to Georgia
• Evaluation of the implementation of HORIZON 2020, EUREKA, COSME, EEN and ERA in Austria
• Review of the STOA Technology Assessment project "How to overcome the innovation gap in Europe"
• Theses Paper for shaping the next (9th) EU-RTD Framework Programme
• STI International Cooperation Network for Eastern Partnership Countries Plus
• PSF Peer Review of the Ukrainian Research and Innovation System
• Giving focus to the cultural, scientific and social dimension of EU-CELAC relations
• PSF Peer Review of the Moldovan Research and Innovation System
• Investigating the Impact of the Innovation Union
• Open FTI-Data Policy - Implikationen für die FTI-Governance
• Innovative patient-centred approach for social care provision to complex conditions
• Konsultation Bioökonomie und F&E Österreich
• AT-Forschungsraum
• EqUIP
• Practical Regional Innovation Policy in Action
• SEA-EU-NET II
• PES to PES Dialogue: Partnerships of Public Employment Services
• ERA Portal Austria: 2013-2020
• MIRRIS-Mobilising Institutional Reforms in Research and Innovation Systems
• STI International Cooperation Network for Central Asian Countries-IncoNet CA
• Austrian Platform for Research and Technology Policy Evaluation
• Koordinationsstelle der Territorialen Beschäftigungspakte
• Telekommunikationsindustrie - PES-Analysis
• Analytische Unterstützung FTI Arbeitsgruppe 7a Internationalisierung Drittstaaten
• Indicators to Measure Internationalisation of Science and Research
• Forward Visions on the European Research Area
• EVAL-INNO: Evaluation in RTDI in SEE
• Analyse von ERA-NET-Programmen mit Drittstaaten 2004 - 2010 und ihrer Perspektiven
• Frontrunnerstrategie 2020
• SEE-ERA.NET
• Erawatch Österreich 2009/10
• Planung und Durchführung des Peer Review Prozesses

Publications

• Forschung verlangt „bessere“ Daten
• Transformation messen und verstehen: partizipative Evaluationsansätze für Citizen Science
• Austrian Research and Technology Report 2022
• Österreichischer Forschungs- und Technologiebericht 2022
• Wie kooperiert Österreich mit Nordamerika im Wissenschaftsbereich?
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• Evaluation of the Arts-based Research Programme of the Austrian Science Fund (PEEK)
• Study on Austrian actors, networks and activities in the field of science diplomacy
• Austrian Research and Technology Report 2021
• Patterns of geographical mobility of researchers from 6 Western Balkan Countries ...
• Österreichischer Forschungs- und Technologiebericht 2021
• Promoting gender balance and inclusion in R&I and training - Final Evaluation Report
• Conceptual and practical problems of evaluation of international R&I policies
• Austrian Research and Technology Report 2020
• Exploring the performance gap in EU Framework Programmes between EU13 and EU15 Member States
• Österreichischer Forschungs- und Technologiebericht 2020
• The EU’s global response to the COVID-19 crisis with a focus on the Eastern Neighbourhood and Africa
• International R&I cooperation policies revisited: sustained challenges and new developments
• Using the Delphi Method in Evaluations – Incorporating a Future Oriented Perspective in Evaluations
• Now available: Atlas of Social Innovation
• Fostering the Sustainable Development Goals in Horizon Europe
• Offene Wissenschaft braucht offene Infrastrukturen
• Austrian Research and Technology Report 2019
• Valuation of SSH Research for a Transformative European Research Agenda
• Design and Development of National Strategies for International Cooperation in Research and Innovation
• The Uptake of European Programmes in the CEEPUS Cooperation Area
• Impact Re-Loaded
• Valuation of SSH Research for a Transformative European Research Agenda
• Zwischenevaluierung “Beyond Europe”: Endbericht
• Palgrave Communications: The Past, Present and Future of European Science Diplomacy
• Research and Innovation Observatory Country Report 2017: Austria
• „Atlas of Social Innovation – New Practices for a Better Future” is available now!
• PSF Report: Analysis of the Georgian RTI system
• Regional knowledge economies and global innovation networks – the case of Southeast Asia
• ASEAN-India Collaboration in Science & Technology: Evidence and Prospects
• The Role of Smart Specialisation in the EU Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policies
• Country Report Austria 2016 des Research and Innovation Observatory der EK veröffentlicht
• Fostering Impact and Sustainable Collaboration in FP9 within a new Common Research, Technology and Innovation Policy
• Looking for in-depth knowledge on "Funding frugal Innovations" & on "Indo-European cooperation within the framework of FP7"?
• PSF Peer Review of the Ukrainian Research and Innovation System
• Report on the S&T Policy Mix Peer Review (PMPR) Kyrgyzstan
• Theses Paper for shaping the next (9th) EU-RTD Framework Programme
• PSF Background Report of the Ukrainian Research and Innovation System
• PSF Background Report: Peer Review of the Moldovan Research and Innovation System
• PSF Peer Review Report on Moldova's Research & Innovation System
• MIRRIS Policy Brief on the COST Programme published
• Research and Innovation Observatory Country Report Austria 2015
• PSF Report: Science, technology and innovation (STI) in Ukraine
• ASEAN Economic Community and Intellectual Property Rights: An Assessment of Framework Conditions for Innovation
• ERA Fabric Map. Second Edition
• ERA Fabric Map. Third Edition
• Developing Science Based Education. An independent evaluation of the Basic Research and Higher Education Program (1998-2007)
• Governance Modelle nationaler Forschungsinfrastrukturen zur strategischen Ausrichtung der RTOs
• State of the art and perspectives of bilateral S&T programmes between EU MS/AC and Russia
• S&T Policy Mix Peer Review Moldova. Report on the review of the Moldovan S&T Policy Mix
• First special report for the EU-Russia S&T Committee
• National RTD programmes for Southeast Europe: A Comparative Summary Report
• Scientific cooperation between Southeast Asia and Europe in 2020. Driving factors as assessed by scientists and policy-makers
• International Benchmarking of the NCP Systems in Europe
• Evaluating Publicly Co-funded RTDI Programmes – Preliminary Benchmarks and Conclusions
• Benchmarking of Nano-Technology Institutes in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
• Report on Benchmarking of the National Contact Point System in the Western Balkan Countries
• Der österreichische Forschungsraum
• Participation of the «New» EU Member States in the European Research Programmes — A Long Way to Go
• Promoting local economic development through multi-level partnership arrangements in Europe
• DP 32: Public Sector Innovation in Austria
• Analytical paper on the use of Lifelong Learning Programmes
• Enhancing S&T cooperation between the EU and Eastern Europe as well as Central Asia: a critical reflection on the White Paper from a S&T policy perspective
• INNO-Policy TrendChart report Austria
• INNO-Policy TrendChart report Moldova
• INNO-Policy TrendChart report Russia
• Moldova: research and innovation system analysis
• Innovation Policy in Russia
• Promoting Transnational Learning: Using a critical friend peer review process [...]
• Regional Innovation and Research Policy Outlook
• Policy demand for Information Society statistics
• Newsletter - Peer Review: Österreich als Vorbild für die EU
• Policy Implications of Benchmarking RTD Organisations

Events

• Kick-off meeting of the POLICY ANSWERS project
• STRATEGIC FORESIGHT: A VISION FOR THE FUTURE OF EUROPE
• Measuring what matters: The comparability issue in indexes
• Measuring what matters: multilevel governance in European regions
• 21st Meeting of the Joint Committee of CEEPUS Ministers
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• Sozial- und Geisteswissenschaften in "Horizon Europe"
• Open Research Analytics
• S4D4C’s 1st Global Networking Meeting
• Horizon 2020 Association Launching Workshop and Info Day for Armenia
• Open Innovation - APA Science Event
• Digitalisierung der Produktion - Open Innovation als Chance für die Industrie
• Success breeds Success. Experiences from Singapore
• Seminar on Research and Innovation Policy (for Eastern Partnership countries)
• Seminar on Research and Innovation Policy (for Central Asian Countries)
• Workshop zu Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI)
• ASEAN-EU Science, Technology, and Innovation Days 2015
• 1st Peer Review & 1st CE-Ageing International Conference in Bratislava, Slovak Republic
• INCO-NET CA/SC : Policy Stakeholder Conference in Astana
• S&T Policy Stakeholder Conference in Kazakhstan

News

• Zukunft gestalten mit Sozialen Innovationen
• Wiener Gleichstellungsmonitor veröffentlicht!
• DLR PT visited ZSI
• ZSI-coordinated initiative selected as a Danube Strategy Flagship
• Forschung auf dem Westbalkan rückt in EU-Nähe
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• Im Portrait: ZSI-Forscherin Tatjana Neuhuber
• The Lost Millennials project is online!
• Presentation at the Parliament
• Wie kooperiert Österreich mit Nordamerika?
• Online SciCom course: Communicating trustworthy information in the digital world
• First successful Horizon Europe project proposals at ZSI
• A proud member of the Platform Research and Technology Policy Evaluation
• COST network on evaluation started!
• K. Schuch im Beirat "Foresight & Citizen"
• IntelComp contributes to "Evidence Based Policy Making in Europe"
• The new Austrian Research and Technology Report 2021 just published
• ReValuation'21 - The European R&I Policy Evaluation Conference
• Interest in EU research mobility schemes growing in the Western Balkans
• Patterns of geographical mobility of researchers from 6 Western Balkan Countries
• Bundesstatistikgesetz und Forschungsorganisationsgesetz
• Today in the Austrian Parliament
• Celebrating the results of the S4D4C networking meeting
• Call update: 124 applications received during 1st phase of the LEAP-RE Call
• Im Portrait: ZSI-Forscher Stefan PHILIPP
• Kick-off of the R&I partnership between Europe and Africa on renewable energy
• Landkarte der Ideenbringer für Europa
• 31% der Wiener ohne österreichischen Pass
• Der Streit um mehr Geld
• Diplomatie und Wissenschaft
• Im Portrait: ZSI-Forscherin Judith Feichtinger
• Closing the EU-SPI pilot project with the launch of a new edition
• 13 recommendations for R&I internationalisation
• Klimawandelanpassung in österreichischen Gemeinden
• How insane is this?
• Policy brief by ZSI experts P. Brugner and K. Schuch landed!
• Austrian Report on Research and Technology discussed in Parliament
• Club Research mit K. Schuch (ZSI) am 18. Juni um 17:00
• Weise den Weg weisen - das Verhältnis von Wissenschaft und Politik
• Wie die Corona-Pandemie die Wissenschaften unter Druck setzt
• The EU’s global response to the COVID-19 crisis with a focus on Africa and ENP
• S4D4C asks for feedback to newly published policy report
• ReGendering Science: e-Book of Abstracts published
• Optimal Utilisation of Publicly Funded Research Laboratories by Businesses
• H2020 Policy Support Facility Report on International Cooperation published!
• Open Access: An opportunity for Malta
• Atlas of Social Innovation - the story goes on
• Wissenschaftsdiplomatie in den Medien
• Research and Innovation development in Kosovo
• Presentations online!
• Policy briefs recommends actions to tackle 'Grand Challenges'
• Evaluation: Austrian Offices for Science and Technology - article in "Standard"
• Preparing for Science Diplomacy - leaving the comfort zone
• ResInfra@DR Projekt und Synergy Meeting in DERSTANDARD
• Österreichischer Forschungs- und Technologiebericht 2019 veröffentlicht
• International cooperation for tackling global biosphere and social challenges
• Slow progress in Kosovo, but progress
• Social sciences and Humanities in mission-oriented reseach
• Stimulating science-business links: lessons from the Policy Support Facility
• Outline of the Mutual Learning Exercise about RTI internationalisation
• Wirkungsanalyse der Servicestelle zur Erschließung ausländischer Qualifikationen
• 8th Newsletter by ResInfra@DR with news on RI in the Danube Region available
• Über die Mission, die Welt zu ändern
• New report of the EC's Policy Support Facility published with ZSI contribution
• Smart specialisation: Working paper published
• New WBC-RTI.INFO bulletin released
• Case Management: Integrierte Versorgung für Menschen mit seltenen Krankheiten?
• Case Management: Integrierte Versorgung für Menschen mit seltenen Krankheiten
• PSF Report: Towards Open Science – mutual learning for systemic change
• Societal impact of the Vienna University of Economics and Businness
• PSF Recommendations for overhaul of Georgia's innovation system
• PSF Mutual Learning Exercise on Open Science - Altmetrics and Rewards
• Low participation of some New Member States in FP7 and Horizon 2020
• Call for papers for the Austrian SSH EU Council Presidency conference published!
• Impact of R&I Policy-Conference: Call for Extended Abstracts published
• PSF Latvian Research Funding System: Final Report published
• Measuring the Impact of EU Framework Programmes for R&I at National Level
• Social Sciences and Humanities - A Pumping Heart for European Research
• Call for trainer!
• Enorme Gefahr, dass Flüchtlinge aus dem System fallen
• Synthesebericht der Bioökonomie Dialogforen veröffentlicht
• Katja Mayer ist neue Mitarbeiterin am ZSI
• "Wettbewerb statt Gießkannenprinzip"
• Thesis Paper for FP9 published in Austria
• Peer Review Report of the Kyrgyz R&I system presented
• PSF Background report on the Moldovan Research and Innovation System published
• PSF Background Report published: Science, technology and innovation in Ukraine
• PSF Peer Review Group meets in Ukraine
• EU – Central Asia STI cooperation
• Bescheidene Effizienz österreichischer F&E-Fördermaßnahmen
• Recommendations to modernise Research and Innovation in Moldova presented
• MIRRIS Policy Brief on the COST Programme published
• EaP STI Evaluation Platform: MoU signed
• Horizon 2020 Association Launching Workshop and Info Day in Armenia
• PSF Peer review of the Ukrainian STI system started
• Learn more about Science and Innovation in Ukraine
• Call for extended abstracts for 'OPEN EVALUATION 2016'
• Ukrainian journal "Science and Innovation"
• Foresight and STI Governance
• S&T Policy Mix Peer Review Georgia completed (IncoNet EaP)
• "Wir bereiten Entscheidungsgrundlagen für die Politik auf!"
• New MIRRIS press release on 3rd Policy Dialogue in Prague
• EU13 Member States in Fast Track to Innovation Initiative
• Participation of cohesion countries in Horizon 2020 still low
• Bioeconomy in Austria
• S&T Policy Mix Peer Reviews Danube-INCO.NET
• S&T Policy Mix Peer Reviews
• European Parliament Conference on R&D cooperation with ENP Countries
• Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships at the Centre of Social Innovation
• Wiener Zeitung: Studie empfiehlt Programm für Spitzenleistungen
• Seminar on Research and Innovation Policy
• Facilitating EU-Russian Scientific and Societal Engagement: Joint Efforts to Tackle Grand Challenges
• InnovateUK 2014 networking and expert exchange in London – with ZSI input
• ZSI at the event "ERA NEU DENKEN?" (Re-thinking ERA)
• Research Evaluation for the Social Sciences and the Humanities
• Thematic Pole 1: Innovation governance and policy
• Participation of the «New» EU Member States in the European Research Programmes
• SEA-EU-NET publishes study on innovation support structures in Southeast Asia
• Teaming incentives for strong performers unclear
• Innovation Performance Review Armenia
• ERA Portal Austria Policy Brief on Widening Participation in HORIZON 2020
• medianet: "No-Go" - gekaufte Evaluationen
• Journalartikel zu multi-level partnership arrangements in Europe veröffentlicht
• medianet: goal-overload und Kleinteiligkeit
• medianet: "Evaluierung im Politikzyklus"
• MIRRIS quarterly newsletter: Policy Dialogues...
• medianet: "Ergebnisse? Immer zu spät …" -- zum Aussetzen der PISA-Studie
• medianet: Gute Evaluation ist missionsfrei
• Widening Participation in HORIZON 2020 in Poland
• MIRRIS - Dialogue events on Widening Participation
• Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften in Horizon 2020
• EU-Russia Year of Science has been launched!
• Wissens- und Technologietransfer
• RTI cooperation platforms with Eastern European Partnership (INCO NET EaP) & Central Asian Countries (INCO NET CA) launched
• Beyond Europe Empfehlungen
• Inco.Net EECA: S&T Policy Mix Peer Review Report to Kazakhstan presented to the President of Kazakhstan on 23 October 2012
• S&T Policy Mix Peer Review site visits to Moldova and Kazakhstan successfully concluded
• INNO-Policy TrendChart
• S&T Policy Mix Peer Reviews
• Policy Workshop to support Ukraine-EU cooperation in RTDI
• SEA-EU-NET Foresight study published as part of policy recommendations for enhancing Science and Technology collaboration between the European Union and Southeast Asia
• Now online: Transversal analysis on the evolution of skills needs in 19 economic sectors
• Neuerscheinung: Regional Innovation and Research Policy Outlook