Area of work: Division Research & Development and project for the crosslinking of research policy with the Western Balkans at the Centre for Social Innovation We offer a challenging position with a multi-faceted range of duties, a committed team and the environment of a globally active research institution with interesting project partners. Duties: Support of the Head of the Department and of the ...

Handlungsoptionen

Die Broschüre beinhaltet neun, von Paktakteurinnen und -akteuren vertiefte regionale Handlungsoptionen für TEPs zur Verbesserung der Arbeitsmarktlage, maßgeblich für die Zielgruppe der Älteren. Die...

The PROACT-Consortium, including Josef Hochgerner from ZSI, has published the final results of the project. Balázs Borsi, Gábor Papanek (ed.), 2008: Regional Innovation and Research Policy Outlook. Policy Practices in Eight European Regions;Budapest, GKI Economic Research Co.ISBN: 978-973-7128-60-8 The project website http://www.proact-network.net offers free access to to download a pdf-version of...

Successful coordinators of projects already started in FP7 were awarded Austrian Champions of European Research by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency, FFG http://rp7.ffg.at/RP7.aspx?target=113773&SetLanguage=2. ZSI was very well represented by three coordinators among the 58 recipients of the award from all over Austria. Champions of European Research and their projects: Elke Dall: "Western Balkan...

The Centre for Social Innovation welcomes Marie Curie Fellowship applications in our fields of research:- labour market governance - equal opportunities- technology enhanced learning- information and knowledge society- internationalisation of S&T- systems of innovation research Individual Fellowship applications can be based upon two schemes:- Intra-European Fellowships for Career Development (IEF...

The new book on "Communication in International R&D Projects" contains contributions of scholars from Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Hungary, Bulgaria and Belgium, including articles from the ZSI researchers Elke Dall, Josef Hochgerner, Dietmar Lampert and Klaus Schuch. Hochgerner, J. and Cornejová, I. (eds.)(2008): Communication in International R&D Projects. A Perspective from Social...

Das Institut für den Donauraum und Mitteleuropa (IDM) und der Böhlau Verlag Wien laden herzlich ein zur Präsentation der IDM-Publikation "Aspects of Migration - South East Europe" erschienen in der Reihe "Der Donauraum" und anschließender Diskussion mit Univ.-Prof. Dr. Rainer Münz (Erste Bank; Hamburgisches Weltwirtschaftsinstitut/ HWWI), FH-Prof. Mag. Dr. Andreas Breinbauer (FH des bfi Wien) und...

Publikation "Active Ageing und TEPs - Regionale Handlungsoptionen

Ziel der von den ZSI MitarbeiterInnen Anette Scoppetta, Dirk Maier und Wolfgang Michalek verfassten Publikation ist es, regionale Handlungsoptionen zur Verbesserung der Arbeitsmärkte, maßgeblich für...

Presentation of the WBC-INCO.NET project to Stakeholders in Brussels

The Turkish Research and Business Organisation features the WBC-INCO.NET in its Spring Reception at the Stanhope Hotel, Rue du Commerce 9, Brussels, on 13 March. WBC-INCO-NET is funded by the European...

Dukagjin Pupovci from the Kosova Education Center (KEC) in Prishtina will hold a public guest lecture with the title „Higher Education in Kosovo" at the ZSI.Time: Friday, March 18, 2008, 13.00 – 14.00hLocation: ZSI, 1150 Wien, Linke Wienzeile 246 (http://www.zsi.at/de/kontakt/stadtplan.html), ground floor (SORA).Information concerning KEC: http://www.kecks.org/Kosova%20Education%20Center/index.ang...

The international conference "Foresight & Knowledge Based Governance Responses to Climate Change" is organised by ASO Ljubljana together with the Slovenian research agency (www.arrs.gov.si/en/index.asp), the scientific association „Bled Forum on Europe" (www.bled-forum.org) and the UN Global Compact Slovenia in Bled/Slovenia on March 7 – 8, 2008 The event cycle “Bled Forum on Europe” shall contribute...

The FP7 project EULAKS („Connecting Socio-Economic Research on the Dynamics of the Knowledge Society in the European Union and Latin American and Caribbean Countries") aims at supporting networks and partnerships between Latin American and European researchers und research institutions in social sciences. ---A special focus of the project is the fostering of the importance of the social sciences in...

The project LAC-ACCESS („Connecting high-quality research between the EU and Latin American and Caribbean Countries") makes an important contribution to the opening of the European research area to Latin American countries and the Caribbean. In 2008 the project entered its second year of operation. The installation of a small conference grant scheme for researchers from Latin America was the starting...

The European Commission promotes a new type of project in the area of international cooperation (FP7 – Capacities): the so called INCO-NET and BILAT projects. These projects shall establish and support platforms of dialog with focuses on specific regions and countries. Six INCO-NET projects have been selected after a call for proposals and started their projects. The ZSI is involved as a project partner...

ZSI participated in an evaluation of the ‚Basic Research and Higher Education Program', implemented by the 'US Civilian R&D Foundation' in Russia. The evaluation panel, headed by Prof. Peter Idenburg (The Netherlands), included Austrian experts (Klaus Schuch, Manfred Spiesberger), two experts from the USA (Anne Harrington, Mark Johnson), and one expert from Russia (Ivan Bortnik). The evaluation comprised...

This book is based on the participant's experience of using partnership as a way to promote social innovation and change. The involved researcher have analysed these experiences together with the participants. An interactive research approach was used to make research with - not on - the people involved. The results are presented in 14 chapters. The one on "Partnerships for Sustainable Change: The...

A brochure (32 p.), published by the project mature@eu, may be downloaded herehttp://www.zsi.at/attach/matureateu_brochure.pdfor ordered in print version upon request sent to Maria Schwarz-Wölzl:schwarz@zsi.at Additional information: http://www.mature-project.eu

The LEMAIA Working Session was structured around the question: “What is good practice in e-learning 2008 in formal education?”The working session was a forum of exchange of good practices and valuable experiences made by the invited guests in the area of e-learning. The examples of application of e-learning in different contexts and areas of formal education were presented and discussed in an international...

Am 24. Jänner 2008 erschien im Standard ein Artikel über die Austrian Science and Research Liaison Offices Ljubljana und Sofia, der unter folgendem Link abrufbar ist: http://derstandard.at/?url=/?id=3193353

Ralf Klamma von der RWTH Aachen wird am Freitag, 25.01.2008, einen öffentlichen Gastvortrag zu folgendem Thema halten: Visualisierung von Sozialen Netzwerken (Soziale Netzwerkanalyse) in neuen Kommunikationsmedien wie z.B. Weblogs oder Wikis Ort: Sitzungzimmer SORAUhrzeit: 14:00-16:00 Uhr