Rural and coastal communities can (and should) be major guides for managing, protecting and using natural resources. The provision of both private and public goods from these areas depends on the resilience...

Dr, Johannes Waldmüller ist seit April 2022 Projektleiter am ZSI. Zuvor war er Forschungsprofessor für Politikwissenschaften in Ecuador (2016-2021) und Gastprofessor der Universitäten FLACSO Argentinien...

Danube Strategy Flagships are projects or processes that contribute to the implementation of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region (EUSDR), have a clear macro-regional dimension and a multi-level ...

After finishing the four years project New HoRRIzon on the topic of Responsible Research and Innovation within the EC funding scheme, results and experiences of 19 social labs are openly accessible in...

Unser CoAct partizipatives Forschungsprojekt mit Jugendlichen zu Ausbildung und Beruf nähert sich nach fast drei Jahren dem Ende und wir haben daher noch eine letzte große Veranstaltung geplant. Das Projektteam...

Citizen Social Sciences intends to collaborate equally between citizen groups and academic actors. As a consortium, we propose a new understanding of Citizen Social Science as participatory research co...

Nachhaltige, sozial innovative Wertschöpfungskreisläufe für Nahrungsmittel können mit Hilfe des Konzepts urbaner „Kreislauf-Hubs“ verwirklicht werden, die Reststoffe in Wert setzen und in die Produktion...

Zum Projektfinale lud SEED-Hub zum dritten Social Business Forum am 27. September nach Bratislava ein: „Sozialunternehmen begegnen einer Reihe von sozialen und ökologischen Herausforderungen und können...

Das ZSI und die TU Wien laden alle Interessierten am 19. Oktober zum Workshop zu Klimaexperimenten in Österreich ein. Bei dem Workshop werden wir die Ergebnisse unserer Umfrage zu Klimaexperimenten in...

Der Artikel "Macher, Macker und Mentoring" von Cornelia Grobner ist in der Die Presse-Ausgabe von Samstag, 24.09.2022 erschienen und auch online hier nachzulesen.

The RIPEET project is launching a Call for Solutions for regional energy transition challenges. The project’s three pilot regions, Extremadura, Ostrobothnia, and the Scottish Outer Hebrides, have each...

Das Projekt Social Entrepreneurship Education and Development Hub (SEED-Hub) unterstützt Sozialunternehmen, Start-ups, Mitarbeiter*innen öffentlicher Stellen und Social Entrepreneurs in Ausbildung. Das...

In mid-September, the RIPEET consortium gathered in Stornoway on the Scottish Outer Hebrides Islands to exchange on project progress and to learn about several community energy projects in Scotland. The...

Forschung auf dem Westbalkan rückt in EU-Nähe Länder wie Bosnien-Herzegowina oder Nordmazedonien arbeiten an der Integration in die Forschungslandschaft der Europäischen Union und das ZSI unterstützt...

Tatjana Neuhuber arbeitet seit 2020 am ZSI und an der TU Wien. Sie hat einen BSc in Wirtschaftswissenschaften, einen BA in Soziologie und einen MSc in Internationaler Sozialpolitik. Am ZSI arbeitet sie...

Through 10 September the UNTANGLED project is accepting papers and extended abstracts for our first conference, Labour market effects and social impact of technological transformation, globalisation...

The Long-term Europe-Africa Partnership on Renewable Energy (LEAP-RE) programme co-funded by the European Union (EU) under Horizon 2020 aims to increase the use of renewable energy...

Although the work in all projects start even before they officially kick-off, at the proposals' stage, in many cases, the efforts tend to remain "unseen" at least until the project's has set its digital...

Developed by ZSI on behalf of the Step Change project, the document is a ready to use compilation of training materials dedicated to support citizen science initiatives. This output of the Step Change...

...Eszter Kósa from Binda consulting international, one of the project partners in the Lost Millenials project, explained this in an article that was published in issue 19 of the Youth Employment Magazine...

The Virtual Expert Café series is an open format driven by participants’ contributions. It can be a platform for you to promote an ongoing project or research, tap into attendants’ collective intelligence...

Dieser Gastkommentar für die Wiener Zeitung, erschienen am 11. August 2022, schlägt eine Brücke zwischen dem sicherheitspolitischen "Strategischen Kompass" und der erst kürzlich vorgestellten Idee einer...

Degrowth is a counter-hegemonic movement that has the ambitious aim of transforming society towards social and ecological justice. The important yet difficult question is how to get there. That is the...

Please check out our videos, which were produced by Viennese teenagers to demonstrate their views and opinions on climate change: Video 1: Megacart & climate Video 2: Here and now and the bees...

The Long-term Europe-Africa Partnership on Renewable Energy (LEAP-RE) programme co-funded by the European Union (EU) under Horizon 2020 aims to increase the use of renewable energy...

The UNTANGLED project will host a one-day conference in Brussels on November 9, 2022, addressing the impacts on (EU) labour markets – including skills demand and supply, job quality and working conditions...

Das SEED-Hub Projekt bot in den vergangenen Monaten und Wochen viele Anknüpfungspunkte und Möglichkeiten zum Austausch und Knowhow-Aufbau! In dieser vierten Ausgabe erwarten Sie eine erste Vorschau auf...

Today, the latest Research and Technology Report 2022 on the status and development of the Austrian RTI system was discussed in the parliamentary Committee for Research, Innovation and Digitalisation. ...

On June 27-28, the Ministerial Meeting of the Western Balkans Platforms on Culture, Research and Innovation, Education and Training was held in Tirana, Albania. ZSI was deeply involved in the preparation...

"Nothing about us without us!" (AGE Platform Europe) The TAAFE project (funded under Interreg Alpine Space) celebrated its final results in June 2022 in Treviso and Feldbach. The TAAFE model - a...

On 5th July the MICS, CoAct and ACTION projects are co-hosting a forum on impact assessment in citizen science. This will be an opportunity to explore current frameworks, methods and tools...

Am 21. Juni kam der Prager Stadtrat, Herr Vít Šimral mit Vertreterinnen der Stadtregierung, zu Besuch ans ZSI. Vít Šimral ist u.a. für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Innovation verantwortlich. Gegenstand des...

An exhaustive exercise of mapping good practices, interviews, descriptions of opportunities, initiatives and possibilities for cooperation on Responsible Research and Innovation in and beyond the region...

In June 2022, the newsletter was issued, co-edited by Radenka Krsmanović Whiffen, with interviews of Tim Flink, scientific advisor to the Committee of Education, Research and Technology Assessment...

Back to back with the first in-person project meeting within then Lost Millenials project in Bodo (Norway), ZSI researchers Katharina Koller and Stella Wolter presented preliminary results on the situation...

Today, Minister Polaschek, talked at the conference  “Recharging Austro-American Relations” organised by the Diplomatische Akademie Wien and BIAAS. During his speech he also presented findings from...

Am 29. Juni 2022 lädt die TU Berlin für das EU Horizon 2020 Projekt OPEN_NEXT Entwickler, Unternehmen, Forscher und alle ein, die sich für die Zukunft von Open-Source-Hardware interessieren. 18 Europäische...

The Virtual Expert Café series is an open format driven by participants’ contributions. During our informal online gatherings, experts, researchers and stakeholders from the fields of digitalisation, ...

Die im Auftrag des BMBWF entstandene Studie "Bestandsaufnahme der Kooperation und Vernetzung österreichischer und nordamerikanischer Forschender, FTI-Stakeholder und -Institutionen" ist im Repositorium...

SozialMarie ist ein Preis für soziale Innovation, der jedes Jahr an 15 – im wahrsten Sinn des Wortes – ausgezeichnete Projekte vergeben wird. Mit der ersten Ausschreibung im Jahr 2004 und der Verleihung...

Driving the theoretical and empirical discussion on social innovation (SI) forward is one of the key interests of ZSI. Based on the manifold project portfolio that ZSI is involved in, social innovation...

In the frame of the H2020 funded project RIPEET ‘Responsible research and Innovation Policy Experimentations in Energy Transition’, we are building a community of passionate #regional representatives (...

Die Veranstaltung mit optional anschließendem Besuch eines erfolgreichen Beispiels in der Region und der Möglichkeit viele Partnerorganisationen persönlich zu treffen ist ein weiterer Höhepunkt im Rahmen...

After months of development the ETHNA Lab method and training materials (Deliverable 5.3) have been released and are being put into practice. The deliverable includes a guide on the ETHNA Lab...

Our colleague Carmen Siller, Project Manager at ZSI, was interviewed for the Step Change project to talk about the experience in developing training formats in the context of citizen science projects. ...

Between 2019-2022, the OPEN!NEXT project will set out to challenge and fundamentally change the future of product creation by making open source hardware (OSH) development more accessible to a larger ...

In the framework of the Transition2Bio project, we provide for interested teachers inspirations and practical tips & tricks for implementing bioeconomy activities for kids. Watch our training recordings...

The “Transnational Rural Social Innovation Development Strategy” created by ZSI reflects on the experiences of the Interreg Central Europe project CERUSI, connects them to theoretical and conceptual underpinnings...

On March 21st and 22nd 2022, the TRESCA and RETHINK joint final conference was hosted online and in Brussels. The conference was entitled ‘Connections, Conversations and Science Communication: The future...