WINS-ICT “Western Balkan Countries Inco-Net Support in the field of ICT” is an initiative funded by the EC 7th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development under the ICT theme of the Cooperation Programme. The project intends to strengthen S&T cooperation between the EU and the Western Balkan countries by deepening the bi-regional strategic relations in the ICT field and promoting...

Das Zentrum für Soziale Innovation (ZSI) sucht Assistent/In des Vorstands für Kommunikationsmanagement und Organisation Wir streben eine Verbesserung interner Abläufe und Intensivierung externer Kommunikation (Pressearbeit, Public Relations, Lobbying etc.) an. Von zentraler Bedeutung sowohl für die einzelnen Projekte des ZSI als auch für das gesamte Institut ist die Verbreitung von Ergebnissen unserer...

FORESIGHT is a scientific journal published by the High School of Economics (Moscow) in Russian language.In the Editorial Board are Ian Miles (Manchester Institute of Innovation Research), Michael Keenan (OECD), Laurent Bach (University Strasbourg), Klaus Schuch (ZSI), Mario Cervantes (OECD), Glenn Schweitzer (National Academy of Sciences, USA), Ricardo Seidl da Fonseca (UNIDO), Mikhail Kovaltchuk...

Wir wollen unser Profil komplettieren durch verstärkte Forschung in den folgenden Schwerpunkten: Chancengleichheit am Arbeitsmarkt, Armutsbekämpfung, Internationale Mobilität, sozialer Dialog und Integration, alternde Gesellschaft, Governance gesellschaftlicher und technologischer Entwicklungen. Wir bieten eine verantwortungsvolle Herausforderung mit breit gefächerten Aufgabengebieten, ein...

SEA-EU-NET is pleased to announce its second stakeholder conference will take place on 11 and 12 November in the IPB International Convention Centre in Bogor, Indonesia. The Stakeholder conference will bring together policymakers and researchers from Europe and South East Asia to further strengthen bi-regional science and technology co-operation. SEA-EU-NET is now well into its 2nd year and is moving...

The proceedings of the workshop on "Research Priority Setting for International Cooperation" have been recently published by the European Commission. The workshop was held in Brussels on 25-26 September 2007.It contains contributions from Ken Guy (Wise Guys), Klaus Schuch (ZSI), Göran Marklund (Innova), Bernhard Dachs (ARC), Yuko Harayama (Tohoku University), Habiba Hassan-Wassef (Cairo University...

Right from the printing house: Loudin, J. and Schuch, K. (2009): Innovation Cultures: Challenge and Learning Strategy. Filosofia: Prague The book contains 16 social scientific contributions, e.g. Josef Hochgerner (ZSI) ("Innovation Processes in the Dynamics of Social Change", Karel Müller ("Institutional Changes of National Innovation Systems: an Indicator of Innovation Culture"), Henry Etzkowitz ("...

SEA-EU-NET is a project that aims to link the research communities in Europe and Southeast Asia. As there is already a lot of online information on the European Research Landscape, we focus at our project website on providing interesting facts and news on Southeast Asia. In order to step-up our efforts we are pleased to announce the relaunch of the SEA-EU-NET website (www.sea-eu.net) with a range ...

The Centre for Social Innovation (ZSI), Vienna, Austria is looking for a FP6/FP7 Project-Administrator to support the coordination of projects under the EU RTD Framework Programme We are a private non-profit social-scientific research institute in Vienna with 50+ employees. We are looking for an experienced project administrator to support our project management. ZSI coordinates several projects in...

The booklet "Scientific results of the SEE-ERA.NET Pilot Joint Call" is published and ready for download. It consists of 27 individual scientific reports on the research and networking projects as well as summer schools funded by the SEE-ERA.NET Pilot Joint Call along with a general overview on the project and a foreword by the European Commissioner for Science and Research, Janez Potočnik. For...

As a continuation of the successful cooperation within the SEE-ERA.NET project, a Joint Call for European Research Projects within the fields of ICT and Agro Food will be published on September 1, 2009 within the SEE-ERA.NET PLUS project.

Aus 300 ursprünglich in Frage kommenden europäischen Projekten wurden von einem internationalen Konsortium, das aus mehreren LEONARDO-Nationalagenturen und anderen einschlägigen Organisationen besteht, 5 hervorragende Projekte ausgewählt, die am 5. Juni 2009 in Prag einen Preis verliehen bekommen. Das Projekt "mature@eu" ist eines der fünf prämierten Projekte. Es ist das einzige Projekt...

Using Modern Information and Communication Technologies to Harness the Potential of Southeast Europe's Scientific Diaspora Date: 10 June 2009 Venue: Regional Cooperation Council RCC, Meeting room, Trg Bosne i Hercegovine 1/V, Sarajevo/Bosnia and Herzegovina Organisers: Austrian Science and Research Liaison office (ASO) Ljubljana (& Sofia)Center for eGovernance Development for SEE CeGD, LjubljanaRegional...

Die Studie "Bestandsaufnahme und Positionierung der international ausgerichteten FTE-Programme und - Initiativen Österreichs", die im Auftrag des Rates für Forschung und Technologieentwicklung vom ZSI erstellt wurde, ist auf der Webseite des Rates freigeschaltet worden. Der Rat für Forschung und Technologieentwicklung lädt Sie nun zur Mitwirkung an der Erstellung einer langfristigen FTI-Strategie ...

Über 35 ausgewählte ExpertInnen im Bereich von Gender und Migration diskutierten Handlungsansätze für einen intensivierteren Dialog zwischen Forschung und NGOs, am 25 Mai 09 in Wien. Dieser Workshop wurde im Rahmen des EU-Projektes GEMMA durchgeführt. Das kleine Video gibt Evidenz über die produktive Diskussionskultur am Workshop.

Im Rahmen der Programmlinie "Fabrik der Zukunft" ist der Projektbericht zu "Open Innovation" erschienen. Das Projekt wurde vom ZSI gemeinsam mit der ÖAW (Institut für Technikfolgen-Abschätzung) koordiniert. Weitere Partner waren das Interuniversitäre Forschungszentrum für Technik, Arbeit und Kultur, die Fotec Forschungs- und Technologietransfer GmbH, das Kompetenzzentrum Holz GmbH und das Institut...

The Global Info Day is an e-Infrastructure networking event that offers interested parties, especially from non-EU countries, insights both into current e-Infrastructure activities and into the priorities of the next FP7 research infrastructures call. This event will be taking place via the internet, so remote access from around the world will be possible. Interested parties are invited and encouraged...

ZSI evaluates the CIVISTI project. CIVISTI stands for "Citizen visions on science, technology and innovation". It is a project funded under FP7 (SSH) coordinated by the Danish Board of Technology including partners from Finland (Kuluttajatutkimuskeskus - National Consumer Research Centre), Belgium (Flemish Institute for Science and Technology Assessment), the Malta Council for Science and Technology...

The Newsletter informs about issues relating to Gender AND Migration. If you want to subscribe the newsletter, send an email to schwarz@zsi.at

Das Zentrum für Soziale Innovation sucht eine/n versierte/n Systemadministrator/in zur Verstärkung unserer IT-Abteilung im Arbeitsbereich Netzwerk und Serversysteme. Finden Sie alle Angaben im Anhang!

150 Bürgerinnen und Bürger aus allen 27 EU-Mitgliedstaaten, darunter auch fünf österreichische Bürgerinnen und Bürger, überreichten am 11. Mai 2009 beim Bürgergipfel - dem Höhepunkt der Europäischen Bürgerkonferenzen 2009 - ihre Empfehlungen zur Gestaltung der wirtschaftlichen und sozialen Zukunft Europas hochrangigen europäischen Entscheidungsträger/innen. Gefordert werden von den Bürgerinnen und...

Performance et âge: comment bénéficier de l’expérience des seniors.Performance and age: how to benefit from the experience of mature workers June 11th 2009, University of Lausanne, Switzerland The conference presented two projects: mature@eu and Silver, both European Leonardo da Vinci projects, which address the issue of ageing workforce in a practical way. The conference proceeding can be accessed...

22 to 23 May 2009 Dubrovnik, Croatia This Conference will contribute to a better understanding of the role of Research and Technology Organisations (RTOs) in the development of sustainable knowledge-based economies in Central and South East Europe in line with the EU Lisbon Strategy, focussing in particular on the challenge of strengthening the links between science and industry. Based on the input...

In November 2006, the Austrian Science and Research Liaison Offices Ljubljana and Sofia (ASOs) organised the first so-called „Westbalkan Science Day” at the University of Vienna. Due to the great interest in this event, the ASOs are continuing with a second Westbalkan Science Day which will take place on 22 June 2009 at the Palais Eschenbach in Vienna. Co-organisers of this event are the University...

Call for Applications

The Latin American Faculty for Social Sciences (FLACSO) in Mexico, together with the Centre for Social Innovation (ZSI) Austria, invite Latin American and European master and doctorate students in Social...

As a major milestone of the EULAKS project a conference on the current and future challenges that arise for Europe and Latin America from the emergence of knowledge societies in both regions will be organised on June 8-9, 2009 in Vienna. EULAKS is a project financed by the European Commissions Seventh Framework programme on Research and Technological Development. The conference is titled Latin American...

Socially innovative projects have been awarded the fifth time on May 1st, 2009, in Vienna. As previously, Josef Hochgerner of ZSI took part in the jury selecting the 15 winning projects. Information including photographs:http://www.sozialmarie.org

Zehn Empfehlungen von Bürgerinnen und Bürgern zur Zukunft Europas!

43 repräsentativ und nach dem Zufallsprinzip ausgewählte Bürgerinnen und Bürger aus ganz Österreich einigten sich bei der Europäischen Bürgerkonferenz in Wien vom 21. bis 22. März 2009 auf zehn Empfehlungen...

Cooperation between universities and non-university research organisations takes also place in academic teaching. This kind of cooperation was always a concern of the ZSI and it is expressed in a growing number of teaching assignments in tertiary education organisations. In summer term 2009 ZSI personnel teach at: University of ViennaJohannes Kepler University LinzUniversity of Applied Sciences EisenstadtUniversity...

Das Zentrum für Soziale Innovation (ZSI) sucht ab sofort eine bzw. einenWeb-Entwicklerin bzw. Web-Entwickler (Perl).Voraussetzungen:* absolute Sattelfestigkeit in objektorientiertem Perl* Vertrautheit mit modernen Web-Technologien (Web-Services, Web-Standards usw.)* gute Kenntnisse im Bereich relationaler Datenbanksysteme* Freude an neuen Herausforderungen, gute Problemlösungskompetenz Wünschenswerte...

Results of the study

In January 2008 the Centre for Social Innovation has been commissioned by the Central CEEPUS Office to conduct an evaluation of CEEPUS with a focus on the implementation of common degrees. Furthermore...

Am 16. und 17. Februar 2009 fand in Bonn die Auftaktveranstaltung zum ERA-NET mit Korea (KORANET) statt. Das Projekt wird vom Internationalen Büro des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) koordiniert und hauptsächlich aus Mitteln des 7. EU-Forschungsrahmenprogramms finanziert. Die Laufzeit des Projekts, an dem 11 Partner aus 9 europäischen Ländern und Korea teilnehmen, beträgt vier ...

Die "Europäischen Bürgerkonferenzen 2009" bieten Bürgerinnen und Bürgern aus allen 27 EU-Mitgliedsstaaten bereits zum zweiten Mal die Möglichkeit, im Dialog untereinander und mit Entscheidungsträgerinnen und Entscheidungsträgern die Zukunft Europas zu gestalten. Machen Sie mit und bringen Sie Ihre Visionen zur sozialen und wirtschaftlichen Zukunft Europas ein unter www.europaeische-buergerkonferenzen...

Das ZSI als Mitglied der Plattform Forschungs- und Technologieevaluierung leitet hiermit folgende Einladung des Rats für Forschung und Technologieentwicklung und der Plattform Forschungs- und Technologieevaluierung zum Besuch des Evaluierungstags 2009 weiter: Evaluiert. Was nun?Evaluierung als Instrument der Steuerung im Kontext der Governance von FTI-Politik.Dieser gemeinsame Evaluierungstag findet...

On 9-10 February 2009, the 5th Annual Meeting of the OECD LEED Forum on Partnerships and Local Governance took place in Vienna. "Building Strong Partnerships with the Private Sector for Better Jobs and Inclusion" was the topic of the conference, attracting more than 150 participants from 30 different countries (from all continents with the exeption of Africa). After the offical welcome by Mrs. Ingrid...

Recruitment as usual? No, it is time for age-diversity.The EU-project mature@eu extents its geographical scope to further eight countries. Read more in nine languages.

ZSI became associated member of the ERAWATCH Consortium (http://www.erawatch-network.eu/en/Members/associates). The ERAWATCH NETWORK supports the European Commission and in particular, the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS) in monitoring policy developments and trends related to the European Research Area (ERA). Associate members are people and organisations that have a specific...

17.3., 9.00 a.m.: Migration, Diaspora and Reform Processes in South East EuropeConference in the framework of the ASO-Project “Role of Migration and Diaspora in the Reform and EU Integration Processes in South East Europe" supported by the Austrian Science and Research Liaison Offices (ASO). Language: English. With Rainer Münz, Pier Rossi-Longhi, Paul Hockenos, etc.Ort: Fachhochschule des bfi Wien...

A broad consortium consisting of 18 partners from 11 different countries will start implementing in February 2009 the EU-funded ERA Net project for Russia (ERA.Net RUS). Austrian participants in the project are the Centre for Social Innovation (ZSI) and the Federal Ministry of Science and Research (BMWF). ZSI is involved especially in the analytical parts of the project. It is leader of work-package...

The newsletter informs about News concerning gender and migration related issues. Below both in German and English.

Contracted by GFF - Society for the Promotion of Research, ZSI together with Systems Research der Austrian Research Centers (ARC/sr)conducted a study on corporate as well as public governance models of large research and technology organisations (RTOs). The selection of RTOs was driven by:* RTOs of national significance* Interaction with public decision makers* Identification of good-practice-models...

Joint European Summer School on Technology Enhanced Learning 2009VENUE: Terchova, SlovakiaDATE: May 30 - June 6, 2009DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: March 16th, 2009 More details see enclosure or atsummer-school-2009 ZSI as member of (STELLAR), the Network of Excellence in Technology Enhanced Learning (building on the achievements of the previous PROLEARN and KALEIDOSCOPE NoE) and (ROLE), the EU ICT TEL...

Am 19. und 20. Jänner 2009 markierte eine Eröffnungstagung in Paris den offiziellen Start des European Research Area Net (ERA-NET) mit Indien, New INDIGO. Das Projekt verfolgt das Ziel, den indischen und europäischen Forschungsraum zu vernetzen und die Basis für die zukünftige Zusammenarbeit im Forschungsbereich zu legen. Indien ist in den letzten Jahren nicht nur politisch und wirtschaftlich, sondern...

the iCamp handbook “How to use Social Software in Higher Education” has been released recently. It can be downloaded from the attachment here and from the following link: http://www.icamp.eu/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/icamp-handbook-web.pdf It is a very practical guide for how to use social software in educational settings. The examples are derived from the iCamp trials, which took place in different...

WINS-ICT aims to strengthen S&T cooperation between the EU and the Western Balkan countries by deepening the bi-regional strategic relations in the field of ICT and promoting the participation of WBICT research actors in FP 7. The main output of the project will be an improved policy dialogue in the field of ICT, reflecting the WBCs needs and priorities in future ICT Work Programmes and thus providing...

2nd Call for proposals of the Austrian Science and Research Liaison Offices Ljubljana and Sofia for projects in Research Cooperation and Networking between Austria, the public higher education institutions in Kosovo and South Eastern Europe (In the framework of the "Multidimensional Project for the Implementation of an Institutionalised Partnership between Austria and Kosovo in the Field of Higher...

"In Washington President Obama has announced that he will have an Office of Social Innovation in the White House. In Europe President Barroso and several of his commissioners are taking part in a two-day event to rethink how Europe supports and accelerates social innovation." source:http://www.youngfoundation.org/social-innovation/news/social-innovation-wins-backing-president-obama-and-barroso According...

Partnerships are recognised as valuable and essential policy instrument and practice with which policy outcomes of Operational Programmes, policies and actions can be enhanced. Thus, eight EU Member States joined forces and established the learning network "Community of Practice on Partnership in the ESF" (in short COP). The COP is lead by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Economics and Labour with...

A ZSI-Lecture, held by Bernhard Elias, is now available in the form of a "ZSI Discussion Paper" (44 p.) - however, in German only. A short glimpse of the content in English (abstract): Increasing pressures to utilise scientific knowledge and research economicly pertain to all domains of science, particularly including social sciences aiming at efficacy and impact in society. In fact, this is not new...

Studie zu Strategien der Internationalisierung von S&T in Südostasien veröffentlicht. Am 19. und 20. November trafen mehr als 130 politische Entscheidungsträger und Wissenschafter aus Südostasien und der EU in Paris zusammen, um sich über bestehende und zukünftige bi-regionale Kooperationen im Wissenschafts- und Technologiebereich (S&T) auszutauschen. Bei dieser Konferenz wurde ein Consultation Paper...