We have just launched the EC2 website https://ec2project.eu We’re a Horizon2020 project investigating the role of engaged energy citizens in the transition to a low-carbon society. Over the next three...

ZSI supports the urgent appeal to European Governments and EU Institutions: Take Action for Afghanistan’s scholars, researchers, and civil society actors which was published by the network “Scholars...

The convergence of Cloud, Big Data and AI has already resulted in major transformation across Government services, yet the process of policy making itself is often left behind. Join the projects Policy...

ZSI is a private non-profit institute for applied social sciences based in Vienna (Austria). At ZSI we implement projects on the social embedding and impact of all types of innovations and contribute ...

The European R&I Policy Evaluation Conference "ReValuation'21", jointly organised by the Austrian Platform for Research and Technology Policy Evaluation, Fraunhofer ISI and IFRIS - Institut Francilien...

"Schemes that enable knowledge exchange and temporary stays abroad are viewed as making a contribution to slowing the brain drain and preventing another R&D fault line developing if/when these countries...

Together with many citizen science experts Barbara Kieslinger and Teresa Schäfer from ZSI co-published a paper that idenfies areas of agreement and disagreement within the citizen science practitioners...

Im Rahmen von SEED-Hub werden u.a. passgenaue Weiterbildungsangebote entwickelt und am Aufbau eines slowakisch- österreichischen Netzwerks von sozialen Unternehmen und Social Entreupreneurs gearbeitet...

Usually, twice in the lifetime of an EU co-funded project under Horizon 2020, external and independent reviewers assess the work done and provide feedback and recommendations. The ZSI-coordinated project...

The paper analysis the mobility of researchers from the six Western Balkan Countries, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia within the following structured regional...

Bewerben Sie sich jetzt! Ziel des Trainings ist es, Social Entrepreneurs fit für aktuelle Herausforderungen und für neue länderübergreifende Kooperationen zu machen! Der SEED-Hub Training (SK/AT) Einladungsflyer...

Ziel des europäischen Projekts TRESCA ist zu verstehen, was das öffentliche Vertrauen in Wissenschaftskommunikation stärkt, fördert oder dieses negativ beeinflusst. Das ZSI unterstützt aktuell die ...

Social Entrepreneurship und Innovationen in Pflege und Betreuung in der Grenzregion von Slowakei und Österreich (Fokus Senior*innen) Wann: 24. September 2021, 9.30 - 15.20 ...

Die Gesetzesänderung, die eine deutliche Verbesserung des Zugangs der Forschung zu Statistik- und Registerdaten vorsieht, wird vom ZSI im hohen Maße begrüßt. Durch den notwendigen Abbau überzogener bürokratischer...

  Das ZSI untersucht in dem H2020 Projekt "PRO-Ehtics", wie es aus ethischer Perspektive gut gelingen kann, neue Akteure an Forschungsprozessen teilhaben zu lassen. Cornelia Grobner von "Die Presse...

alchemia-nova GmbH und das Zentrum für Soziale Innovation (ZSI GmbH) laden zum DIRECT HUBS Impact Café am 20. September 2021 in Wien ein: DIRECT HUBS macht Bewohner/innen in Städten auf nahe Lebensmittelkreisläufe...

Das ZSI hat die Daten des Projekts "Lernen im Ausnahmezustand" (inkl. Codebook, Fragebögen und Dokumentation) interessierten Forscher_innen und Studierenden mit Unterstützung von AUSSDA (Austrian...

Forschung ist ein unverzichtbarer Faktor für die Zukunftsfähigkeit eines Landes. Nicht nur die Grundlagenforschung, sondern auch die anwendungsorientierte Forschung! Die anwendungsorientierte Forschung...

The Action PROFEEDBACK aims to foster the networking of the policy evaluation community at EU level, raise awareness on the importance of evaluation policy research and improve its impact on policy-making...

In his recent article (June 8, 2021) Andy Tay, Presidential Young Professor at National University of Singapore and WEF Young Scientist, recommends the training programmes and sources for researchers...

For two hours today, the Austrian "Research and Technology Report 2021" was discussed in the parliamentary Committee for Research, Innovation and Digitalization. After about 40 minutes of presentation...

CoAct is launching a call for proposals, inviting civil society initiatives to apply for our cascading grants with max. 20.000,- ...

CERUSI-LAB-Vabilo The Interreg Central Europe project CERUSI – Central European Rural Social Innovation, coordinated by Wolfgang Haider and Barbara Glinsner, stages the second webinar of the recently...

We are excited to invite stakeholders, colleagues and everyone who is interested in the impact of globalisation, technological transformations and demographic change on labour markets in the European ...

ZSI welcomes potential applicants to the various Horizon Europe MSCA Postdoctoral Fewllowship (PF) calls with ZSI as host institution. We aim to attract and support young talented post-doc researchers...

Ursula Holtgrewe hat die wesentlichen Ergebnisse der Studie "Lernen im Ausnahmezustand" aus 2020 im WWTF-Webinar am 15. Juni vorgestellt. Wie erwartet, verzeichneten Eltern und Kinder aus Familien mit...

The goal of the project “Ethics Governance System for RRI in Higher Education, Funding and Research Centres”, in short ETHNA System, is to implement and enforce an internal management and procedural system...

Wien, 10. Juni 2021 – Aufbauend auf den Erfolg von drei Forschungs- und Innovationsprojekten zum Thema Wissenschaftsdiplomatie, die im Rahmen des Programms Horizont 2020 von der Europäischen Kommission...

Im Rahmen von YMCB - Young Migrants Capacity Building, nahmen die beiden Gründerinnen von JAMBA Österreich, Iva Tsolova und Selma Pezerovic, an einem Training und Mentoring Programm zur Unterstützung ...

The European Commission has selected 72 research and innovation projects for funding under the European Green Deal Call. These projects are to contribute to the EU’s response to the climate crisis and...

In Kooperation mit der AUSSDA (The Austrian Social Science Data Archive) wurden die Daten der Schüler_innenbefragungen und der Elternbefragungen einem interessierten Fachpublikum zugänglich gemacht. Die...

That’s one of the key questions that the just-launched EC² project - Energy Citizenship and Energy Communities for a Clean Energy Transition - will address through three years of in-depth research and...

Final Conference NewHoRRIzon Final Conference – Join us between 17 -28 May 2021! Our virtual final conference informs attendees about the achievements and lessons learned in the H2020 project ...

In this policy brief Stefan Philipp, project coordinator of CHERRIES and researcher at ZSI, provides a theoretical background on Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) and describes the benefits of...

The EU Science Diplomacy Alliance is a collaborative initiative launched by the Horizon 2020 science diplomacy projects S4D4C (which was coordinated by ZSI), InsSciDE (still running until mid ...

Be part of IntelComp The project is establishing a community of public administrators and stakeholders in Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) policy to support us and participate...

In its two-year-long implementation cycle, the CERUSI-Project aims at both the transfer of skills as well as the improvement of competences of rural social entrepreneurs and actors of the regional innovation...

„Social entrepreneurship“ ist ein Überbegriff, der für vielfältige Formen von sozialem UnternehmerInnentum und entsprechender Services und Produkte steht: Das Projekt Social Entrepreneurship Education...

DanubeChance2.0 will be prolonged for another six months to implement activities that will help entrepreneurs who were hit by the Covid-19 crisis. Concretely, DanubeChance 2.0 will run an additional...

BIONANOSENS is a Horizon 2020 funded Twinning action to support the scientific excellence and public visibility of the Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics of the National Academy of Sciences of...

To meet societal challenges and secure a sustainable and resilient future, large scale innovation and a drive for improvement are needed. Public participation offers important benefits when developing...

From 15-19th March, the ZSI-coordinated project S4D4C "Using Science in/for Diplomacy for addressing global challenges" organized its virtual final networking meeting. The conference aimed at bringing...

  124 applications have been received during the pre-proposal phase of the LEAP-RE Call for AU-EU Collaborative Research and Innovation projects on Renewable Energy. The Call was launched...

For the sixth time, almost 300 citizen science enthusiasts, researchers, students, practitioners, met at this transdisciplinary conference to exchange ideas, gain new experiences and present the results...

Main aims of the project TAAFE are providing Public Administration with a toolkit to implement a participatory method to develop age-friendly environments enhancing the sense of inclusion, the...

CHERRIES ist ein von der EU im Rahmen von HORIZON 2020 gefördertes Projekt und wird vom ZSI koordiniert. Das Projekt experimentiert mit verantwortungsvollen, Forschungs- und Innovationspolitische Ansätzen...

We are pleased to announce the call for papers for a special issue of the FTeval Journal: Participatory Evaluation and Impact Assessment in Citizen Science https://www.fteval.at/content/home/journal/...

The project STEP CHANGE, funded under H2020 and coordinated by the University of Primorska, has kicked off in March. The project, which has secured more than €2 million funding over the 3 coming years...

In the framework of the Interreg Project "Finance for Social Change" the local policy focus group workshop for Austria will take place on April 13. The topic focuses on the question, what type of financing...

Science|Business and the TRESCA project - ZSI is part of the project consortiuim - convened a panel to discuss this question. The Trustworthy, Reliable and Engaging Scientific Communication Approaches...