Ein Gespräch, moderiert von Gerald Bast (Rektor Angewandte), mit Anton Falkeis (künstlerischer Leiter des Studiengangs Social Design, Angewandte) und Josef Hochgerner (Wissenschaftlicher Leiter...

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? (Some lines of the poem ‘The Rock’ by T.S Elliot...

Das Projekt CE-Ageing Platform (Central European Knowledge Platform for an Ageing Society) lädt Bürgerinnen und Bürger zur gemeinsamen Entwicklung einer Strategie zum demografischen Wandel für Zentraleuropa...

The 6th FORSEE newsletter is out! Apart from an interview with one of the members of the expert team responsible for the FORSEE foresight methodology, Mr. Ulrich Bös, the current newsletter informs...

Denmark experienced a far-reaching reform of the public research sector with the consequence of strengthening the large universities. Lauritz B. Nielsen, rector of the University Aarhus, will present...

Am 14. und 15. November 2013 findet in Wien eine große internationale Evaluierungskonferenz statt, die sich mit neuen Herausforderungen für zeitgemäße und wirkungsvolle FTI-Evaluierungen beschäftigt, ...

With an aim to publish the “CE-Ageing Strategy” as a white paper by the end of 2013, an intensive public consultation process on the “GREEN PAPER CE-AGEING STRATEGY” has started on March 1, 2013 and will...

One of the core activities of the three-year project “Central European Knowledge Platform for an Ageing Society” (short: “CE-Ageing Platform”), co-funded by the CENTRAL EUROPE Programme, is the development...

The EVAL-INNO project organises the second RTDI evaluation training course on 15-19 April 2013 in Budapest, Hungary. The training will gather participants from The Ukraine, Slovakia, Austria and Hungary...

Das Projekt Age – Work – Balance: Ausgewogene Ansätze für eine alternde Erwerbsbevölkerung in Ballungsräumen untersuchte Maßnahmen, Programme und Projekte, die auf die Integration von älteren Menschen...

We discussed with over 50 participants from 8 European Countries the significance of the relationship between the network structure (between different public and private actors on different levels...

„Sozial innovative Konzepte zur Stadtentwicklung umfassen intelligente Netze, genauso wie energiesparende Gebäude und umweltfreundliche Mobilität. Entwurfsweisen des Social Design stellen ein wirksames...

The competition (please see the link also below the text) was open for brilliant project ideas from Ukrainian research teams who aim to submit the proposal for the FP7 ICT Call closing in April. ...

As we received many requests, the Danube University Krems prepared a compact webinar on the worldwide first Master of Arts in Social in Innovation. The master course is going to start  in April 2013...

Almost 40 scholars from Kosovo participated in the first of three ESSIe training weeks held at the University of Prishtina (UP). Almost half of the participants were from the UP, a few participants...

The EVAL-INNO project (Fostering Evaluation Competencies in Research, Technology and Innovation in the SEE Region) will organise the first RTDI evaluation training course on 18-22 March 2013 in Sofia, ...

Es ist uns ein großes Vergnügen Sie zu unserer Abschlusskonferenz für das Projekt “Age – Work – Balance: Balanced approaches for an ageing workforce in metropolitan areas” einzuladen. Die Konferenz...

The goal of the Joint Call is to create long-term research collaboration between EU Member States and/or Associated Countries and Africa. Research collaboration of a high standard between teams from EU...

The Smart City concept is important throughout Europe and across the world, thus it is a topic in international discourse. However, this short article primarily deals with matters of local developments...

The Territorial Employment Pacts (Teps) have been implemented since 1997 in all nine Austrian Provinces: The Strategic Report Austria 2012 of the Austrian Conference on Spatial Planning - ÖROK cited...

SEE countries have limited record of innovation evaluation practices. The merits as well as the need for procuring evaluation emerged with the EU Structural Funds and IPA (Instrument for Pre-Accession...

With the results of 8 National Open Consultations events available, the FORSEE project has conducted the Regional Open Consultation event in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in January 2013. The event has attracted...

In the course of February, the Global-excursion team is organizing two (2) live online sessions with scientists! 1) «Meet the scientist: Use of an electron microscope": The first session will take...

Im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Wissenschaft und Forschung (BMWF)  führte das ZSI eine Analyse jener internationalen Kopublikationen durch, die von österreichischen WissenschafterInnen gemeinsam...

The aim of SozialMarie is to make innovative social ideas and their realisation known to a broad public. By means of annual awards and other activities, SozialMarie also encourages networking amongst...

Das ZSI schreibt im Rahmen des Projektes WBC-INCO.NET eine   Praktikumsstelle   ab Februar / März (so bald wie möglich) für 6 Monate aus.   Anforderungen: Interesse ...

Following the completion of the 8 national ICT Open Consulation events, the FORSEE project is now organising the Regional Open Consultation in Ljubljana on Jan. 21, 2013. Experts from all SEE partner...

This book, edited by Hans-Werner Franz, Josef Hochgerner and Jürgen Howaldt, is based on major contributions to the famous conference 'Challenge Social Innovation' of September 2011, which immediately...

Josef Hochgerner, Scientific Director of ZSI We appreciate increasing interest - internationally and in Austria - in the initiative to create a European School of Social Innovation, and concerning...

The European Commission FP7 funded project “Forward Visions on the European Research Area” (VERA) is tasked to provide relevant strategic intelligence for the future governance of the research, technological...

The eight edition of the eNewsletter of the Central European Knowledge Platform for an Ageing Society (“CE-Ageing Platform”) has recently been published providing a compact overview about the outcomes...

The CENTRAL EUROPE Wall Calendar 2013 has been produced recently and distributed to high-level stakeholders on regional, national and European level. The calendar includes top 12 photos submitted...

Information on activities in research policy analysis for Southeast Asian countries, and on the cooperation between Europe and this region was recently published in the journal "ASEAS - Österreichische...

by Josef Hochgerner, scientific director of ZSI By the end of a year reviews are more than common, actually rather imperative. However, it should not be neglected that developments which became visible...

This year the ESF Innovation Award honoured innovative ESF projects especially targeted at girls and women. A jury nominated the Top-5 projects, of which three were developed and are implemented within...

ROLE project has been well visible at the Cloud Education Environments Workshop in Guatemala that took place in November 2012. On November 15, Sylvana Kroop (Centre for Social Innovation, ZSI Vienna...

Watch out for the big Christmas opening of the ViSH - Virtual Science Hub! The big public opening day was on the 10th of December 2012. The ViSH, which is accessible via http://vishub.org/, is a place...

ZSI joined the ICT KOSEU project consortium as a project partner. The ICT KOSEU project is funded under the ICT Thematic Programme of the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme and aims to support...

The report on "International Cooperation in Science, Technology and Innovation: Strategies for a Changing World" of the Expert Group established to support the further development of an EU international...

These five projects focus on the key role of local authorities in meeting the European Union’s challenging energy and climate targets for 2020 through the delivery of effective local energy leadership...

The aim is to provide local governments with short and easy-to-understand training modules focusing on eight key issues relevant to local energy action planning. The Platform was developed by experts (...

  Josef Hochgerner, Scientific director of ZSI In the winter term of 2012 a  promising new academic course started in Vienna: The  Master programme 'Social Design_Arts as Urban Innovation...

Forum Alpbach organized a working group titled "The new World of Work" (original title in German: DNA – Das Neue Arbeiten). Global companies, often technology driven, invest in enhancing the productivity...

Citizen science has emerged recently as a new concept to involve the general public in scientific processes. One of the best ways to help people understand science is to involve  in scientific...

The OECD Programme for Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED) is currently undertaking a study series on 'Demographic Change and Local Development'. The first results were already published...

On this year’s annual stakeholder conference of the Territorial Employment Pacts (TEP) the participants discussed “Solidarity between generations in work life: reality and chances”: Katrin Gasior...

Der gesellschaftliche Wandel und Technologieentwicklungen stellen gleichermaßen Herausforderungen und Chancen für den öffentlichen Bereich und Unternehmen in Europa dar. Das Projekt FORSEE hat das ...

After the first half of the year NanOpinion's huge consortium met for the second time. Partners presented from 4th to 7th of November 2012 their first results on their base line studies concluded which...

Romania’s Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Silvia-Adriana Ţicău who chairs the ‘MEP Danube Forum’ in the European Parliament, a platform for stakeholders aiming at improving cohesion in the...

Find out about the latest development and what a renowned European foresight expert has to say in an interview! The project lets its audience know about the current development and upcoming events...