Section: Work and Equal Opportunities

Function: Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin

Contact:

• Phone: ++43-1-495 04 42 / 44
• Fax: ++43-1-495 04 42 / 40
• Email: siller@zsi.at

Running and completed projects:

• YMCB – Young Migrants Capacity Building (2019, project leader)
• ResInfra@DR - Facilitating macro-regional scope and link up to socio-economic actors of Research Infrastructures in Danube Region (2017)
• MEnt - Migrant entrepreneurship supported by mentors (2017, project leader)
• SiA - Science in Asylum (2016)
• TAIPI - Tools and Actions for Impact Assessment and Policy makers Information (2015)
• Jump@School (2014)
• RRI tools - Responsible Research and Innovation Tools (RRI TOOLS) (2014)
• Danube-INCO.NET (2014)
• CASI - Public participation in developing a common framework for assessment and management of sustainable innovation (2014)
• ERA-Can+ (2013)
• ener2i - ENErgy Research to Innovation (2013)
• BESTPRAC - The Voice of Research Administrators (2013)
• WINS-ICT - Western Balkan countries INCO-NET Support in the field of ICT (2009)
• GLOBAL - Global Linkage Over BroadbAnd Links (2008, project leader)
• WBC-INCO.NET (2008, project leader)
• SEE-Innovation - Facilitating innovation for ICT SMEs in South Eastern Europe (2005, project leader)
• IS2WEB - Extending Information Society Networks to the Western Balkan Region (2005, project leader)
• sozialwissenschaftliche Berufsausbildung: SOQUA 2005-2016 (2005)

Work and research focus:

Migrant Entrepreneurship

Projektmanagement, rechtliche und finanzielle Rahmenbedingungen in verschiedenen Förderprogrammen

Publications:

• R&D and Innovation in Western Balkans. Moving towards 2020 (2014)
• Improving Project Administration and Management Capacities in the Western Balkan countries (2014)
• Financial, legal and administrative management of INCO-NET projects. Difficulties, solutions and recommendations for the future (2013)
• DP 07: IS2WEB Analysis - FP 7 Participation (2007)
• Analysis of the participation of the IS2WEB target group (2006)

Participation at events:

• Migrant Entrepreneurs team-up with mentors: MEnt Final Conference - TuR&Bo - Turkish Research and Business Organisations, Avenue de l'Yser 5, 1040 Brussels
  11. 12. 2018 - 11. 12. 2018
• Gemeinsam (daran) arbeiten! Die Integration von MigrantInnen am Arbeitsmarkt & im Betrieb - ÖGB Catamaran, Johann-Böhm-Platz 1, 1020 Wien
  29. 03. 2017 - 17. 03. 2017
• BESTPRAC Training School - ZSI, Linke Wienzeile 246, 1150 Vienna
  27. 09. 2016 - 29. 09. 2016
• 14th Steering Platform on Research for Western Balkan countries - Budva, Montenegro
  05. 06. 2013 - 06. 06. 2013
• 13th Steering Platform on Research for the Western Balkan Countries - Belgrade
  06. 12. 2012 - 06. 12. 2012
• 12th Steering Platform on Research for Western Balkan Countries - Tirana
  11. 06. 2012 - 14. 06. 2012
• 11th Steering Platform on Research for Western Balkan Countries - Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
  29. 11. 2011 - 02. 12. 2011
• ICT 2008 - "I"s to the Future - invention, innovation, impact - Lyon, Frankreich
  25. 11. 2008 - 27. 11. 2008
• "Westbalkan Science Day" in Wien: Vernetzung zwischen ForscherInnen aus Österreich und den Westbalkanländern - Universität Wien, Dr.-Karl-Lueger-Ring 1, 1010 Wien
  13. 11. 2006 - 13. 11. 2006
• Access to finance for SMEs - Sources of Funding and Supportive Measures for SMEs from South Eastern Europe and the Western Balkan countries" - Belgrade
  13. 06. 2006 - 14. 06. 2006

Education and career:

Working at ZSI since March 2005. Since 2017 managing projects related to migrant entrepreneurship.

Previously working as part-time assistant to the scientific director, being responsible for knowledge management, preparing project proposals, issuing the bi-monthly ZSI eJournal etc.

Used to be responsible for the financial management of WBC-INCO.NET (www.wbc-inco.net) project from 1/2008 - 2/2014 (29 partners, 3 million Euro budget). Thoroughly familiar with EC online tools such as FORCE, SESAM, NEF, providing coordinated user feedback from INCO.NET administrators to EC for future improvements of these tools.

Person in charge of seminar / trainer for SOQUA - Vocational Qualification in the Social Sciences, a two-year post-graduate course for international social science research funded by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research in the seminars on European Research Cooperation(2006-2008 course) and Project Economy, Budgeting and Controlling (2008-2010  as well as 2010-2012 and 2012-2014 course)
www.soqua.net

Between 2005 and 2007 managed IS2WEB and SEE Innovation projects, being Work Package leader for the conduction of surveys to map the capabilities and needs of the relevant target groups, the organisation of mentoring workshops and the dissemination of the project results. 

2007 - 2014 elected member of ZSI Advisory Board. 

May 2001 - December 2004: FFG - Austrian Research Promotion Agency

June - October 2000: Siemens, Personal Assistant of Pavillion Director at EXPO 2000 in Hanover

November 1999 - June 2000: Riedel Communications GmbH & Co. KG, Project Assistant at EXPO 2000 in Hanover

1995 - 1999: Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz: Diploma in Applied Linguistics / Translation Studies English and Spanish