Section: Research Policy & Development

Function: Project Coordinator, Researcher, Evaluator

Contact:

• Phone: ++43-1-495 04 42 / 33
• Fax: ++43-1-495 04 42 / 40
• Email: wagner@zsi.at

Work and research focus:

• ICT, communication and dissemination, media and communication strategies
• Evaluation, monitoring and impact assessment
• Co-publication analysis, bibliometrics
• (Expert) interviews, surveys, stakeholder engagement and participatory processes
• Regional focus: Sub-Saharan Africa, North and South America
• Work Area Manager for Communication for DG RTD's Service Facility in Support of the Strategic Development of International Cooperation in Research and Innovation

Publications:

• Africa-Europe Research and Innovation Cooperation (2018)
• Portfolio Evaluation FWF International Programmes. Final report (2017-09-30)
• Evaluation der Projekte der Ostseebekanntmachungen 2010, 2011 und 2013 des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) (2016) (Primary Author)
• ZSI analysis of co-publication and co-patenting among countries in the Danube Region (2015)
• Mapping of Advanced Materials Deployment for Societal Challenges: Health, Energy, Water (2015)
• The Science of Science Maps (2015)
• Report on impact dimensions of the bi-regional cooperation with outlook on impact and outreach of ALCUE NET (2014)
• Bibliometric Relations of the University of Vienna with Canadian Institutions (2013)
• Evaluation of the WTZ-Programme (2013)
• Evaluierung der Forschungskooperationen im Rahmen der bilateralen wissenschaftlich-technischen Abkommen und Vereinbarungen (2013)
• Assessing International Cooperation in S&T through Bibliometric Methods (2013)
• Towards Professionalising ‘International S&T Cooperation Foresight’: Epistemological and Methodological Challenges and How to Overcome Them (2011)
• The Potential of Transfer of Bilateral R&D Projects towards the European Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (2011)
• Kopublikations-Monitoring Österreich - Fallstudie Indien-Österreich (2011)

Running and completed projects:

• Programmmanagement und Kommunikation in der missionsorientierten Forschungsförderung Am Beispiel „Stadt der Zukunft“ (2020, project leader)
• ISF EU-Canada Programme Level Cooperation Task Force (2017, project leader)
• CommContract - ISF Communication Activities for International Cooperation (2017, project leader)
• SEA-EU JFS - ISF Support for the EU-ASEAN Joint Funding Scheme (JFS) (2017)
• SP WBC (Phase 1) - ISF Support for the Steering Platform on Research and Innovation for Western Balkan Countries (2017)
• ISF - Service Facility in Support of the Strategic Development of International Cooperation in Research and Innovation (2017, project leader)
• Made in Danube - Made in Danube - Verbesserung der Wettbewerbsfähigkeit von KMU im Donauraum durch Innovationspartnerschaften im Bereich Bioökonomie (2017)
• Evaluation der Ostseebekanntmachungen 2010, 2011 und 2013 des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) (2016, project leader)
• FWF IP Evaluation - Evaluation of the international programme portfolio of FWF (2016)
• ESASTAP2020 - Strengthening Technology, Research and Innovation Cooperation between Europe and South Africa 2020 (2016, project leader)
• Evaluierung von "Sparkling Science" (2015)
• TAIPI - Tools and Actions for Impact Assessment and Policy makers Information (2015)
• Kopublikationsanalyse: Österreich-Lateinamerika (2014)
• ERA-Can+ (2013, project leader)
• NMP-DeLA - Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production technologies DEployment in Latin American countries (2013)
• Evaluation of bilateral Science & Technology Agreements (2013)
• CAAST-NET PLUS (2013, project leader)
• ALCUE NET (2012, project leader)
• Analysis of Norway-India Co-Publications 2000-2010 (2012)
• Kopublikationsanalyse AT-Donauraum (2011)
• Kopublikationsanalyse: Österreich-Indien (2011)
• FORSEE (2011)
• KORANET - Korean Scientific Cooperation Network with the European Research Area (2009)
• ERA-NET New Indigo (2009)
• SEA-EU-NET - Facilitating the Bi-Regional EU-ASEAN Science and Technology Dialogue (2008)

Participation at events:

• STI-OUTREACH TO AFRICA - Van Swieten Saal der Medizinischen Universität Wien
  29. 05. 2019 - 29. 05. 2019
• ESASTAP2020 event on EU-South Africa R&I cooperation - Brussels, European Commission – Rue Philippe Le Bon 1-3 / Meeting room 4.56
  12. 04. 2019 - 12. 04. 2019
• ICT 2018: Imagine Digital – Connect Europe - Austria Centre Vienna
  04. 12. 2018 - 06. 12. 2018
• Austrian-Canadian Science and Innovation Days 2017 - Vienna
  21. 09. 2017 - 20. 09. 2017
• Open Evaluation 2016 - Tech Gate Vienna, Donau-City-Straße 1, A-1220 Vienna
  24. 11. 2016 - 25. 11. 2016
• Canadian Research Funding Opportunities for EU Researchers - Embassy of Canada, Rome
  15. 09. 2016 - 15. 09. 2016
• EARMA Annual Conference 2016 - Luleå, Sweden
  20. 06. 2016 - 23. 06. 2016
• ESASTAP 2020 workshop on science for policy advice - Cape Town, South Africa
  25. 02. 2016 - 25. 02. 2016
• CAAST-Net Plus workshop on the role of Africa’s Regional Economic Communities in EU-Africa collaboration in science, technology and innovation. - Pretoria, South Africa
  04. 02. 2016 - 05. 02. 2016
• "Opportunities in Science and Innovation Collaboration between Canada & Austria" - Fechtsaal, Freyung 3, 1010 Wien
  09. 06. 2015 - 09. 06. 2015

Education and career:

MA Science Technology Society and BA International Development, University of Vienna

Mag.(FH) Media Management (Master/Diploma), University of Applied Sciences, St. Pölten and Tomas Bata University,  Zlín, Czech Republic

Short CV:

Isabella E. Wagner is researcher and project manager and coordinator at the Department of Research Policy and Development at the Centre for Social Innovation (ZSI), Vienna. With her experience and expertise combining qualitative and quantitative research methods she is part of ZSI's team for research and innovation policy and programme evaluation. She joined the ZSI team in 2011 with her experience in librarianship and expertise in quantitative methods to help establishing the team for bibliometrics and scientometrics at ZSI. With her degrees in media management (Mag) and science and technology studies (MA) at ZSI she specialised on managing strategic communication and dissemination in projects on international science collaboration with regional focus on Canada and Sub-Saharan Africa. She managed the Work Area for Communication for DG RTD's Service Facility in Support of the Strategic Development of International Cooperation in Research and Innovation. Before joining ZSI she gained experience in marketing, public relations and promotion, event management, trainings and change management in international organisations and international research projects.