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Abstract: The degree of social media uptake in research practice differs greatly, across and within disciplines. This qualitative study explores the use of social media within a specific target group of researchers working in the field of techno
Challenges for Science and Society South-Eastern Europe
Alexandrov, V.; Gajdusek, M.F.; Knight, C.G.; Yotova, A. (Eds.)
1st Edition., 2010, XXI, 350 p., Hardcover
ISBN: 978-90-481-8694-5
This book comprises selected paper
Featuring the perspective up to the year 2020
The ZSI is coordinating a foresight study on EU-Russian S&T cooperation in the perspective up to the year 2020. The foresight is implemented in the frame of the FP7 funded ERA.Net RUS project. A sh
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Boundaries of Flexibility: The Give-and-Take Principle in Commercial Company Cleaning (German)
Publikation
14. Nov 2017
In the sociological discussions on the subjectivation and precarization of work, there is broad consensus on the idea that logics and risks of the market in flexibilized capitalism increasingly affect workers. Empirically, however, flexibilization an

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Supporting emerging forms of citizen science: A plea for diversity, creativity and social innovation
Publikation
1. Mär 2016
Abstract: In recent years, citizen science has gained popularity not only in the scientific community but also with the general public. The potential it projects in fostering an open and participatory approach to science, decreasing the distance

Rules and Regulations for S&T Cooperation with Russia This deliverable lists in excel format important regulatory information for S&T cooperation with Russia on issues such as:
IPR
Special economic zones
Investment in Russia
Contractu
Insider on Indian IP Office and general patenting In the framework of the task Support for evidence based policy making, ZSI has prepared a policy brief on co-patenting in India. By providing insights into current burning policy issues such as the In
Launch of 2nd edition of European Capital of Innovation award - open until 18 November 2015! Won by Barcelona in 2014, this competition rewards the European city which is building the best “innovation ecosystem”, connecting citizens, public organisat
Already signed are the contracts for USA, Brazil, EaP countries, for Ukraine and South Africa negotiations are ongoing ZSI has just signed the contracts for three new projects to start in February / March 2016:
BILAT USA 4.0:
ZSI is among the
Gastkommentar von Klaus Schuch, ZSI
Lesen Sie den gesamten Beitrag hier.
Während es in den USA eigene Lehrstühle für Evaluation gibt, anerkannte wissenschaftliche Evaluationsfachzeitschriften und Lehrgänge, schaut es diesbezüglich in Österreic
Project information of SI-Drive: Please nominate social innovations for a global mapping... 'Social Innovation – Driving Force of Social Change' (SI-DRIVE), is a research project aimed at extending knowledge about social innovation (SI). Amongst othe
Project information of SI-Drive SI-Drive has issued the fourth edition of the eNewsletter. You will find the eNewsletter here.
SI-Drive is a large-scale research project funded in the European Union’s 7th Framework Programme. One central topic of
ZSI regularly informs about its INCO project results and actions. This is the first INCO-newsletter in the year 2016.
The INCO Projects Newsletter #8 has been published on January 27, 2015. If you wish to subscribe to the newsletter, please follo
Kick off to Kazakhstan and Moldova On 23 and 24 of January the INCO-NET EECA project officially launched two S&T Policy Mix Peer Reviews to Kazakhstan and Moldova.
Senior officals from policy-making and policy-delivery from Armenia, Austria,
ZSI presents findings from an accessibility mapping day to local politicans On 30th of June ZSI presented the findings of the students mapping project (which happened on the “Day of Accessibility, June 2nd”) in Graz to a broad audience. In the beginn
Some editorial thoughts on the project NanOpinion -- based on an interview with ZSI expert Katharina Handler. Please find the complete article on http://ec.europa.eu
Nanotechnology has become part of daily life – be it in stain-repellent fabrics,
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In Focus of WBC-RTI.INFO: "Regional Strategies for and with the Western Balkans"
News
2. Feb 2016
WBC-RTI.info Newsletter - January 2016 just published Which strategy is being followed in research and innovation in the Western Balkan countries? Are there too many strategies and how well interconnected are they? Are they truly been followed or jus

Four ZSI projects starting in the biggest EU Research and Innovation programme ever We have been quite active in the first rounds of calls under the Horizon 2020 programme and gathered already some experiences.
In total 8.046 proposals have been e
Will be presented this september in Graz
By the consortium of the DiVa Project and among 2000 educational projects, mature@eu's dissemination and exploitation strategy has been assessed as a good practice example. Its strategy will be presente
With an interesting analysis by Elke Dall, ZSI Read the complete article online...
Looking East of an imaginary line going through Berlin and Rome all the way to the Urals creates a broad outline of what Eastern Europe is, in the widest geographi
A tool to facilitate integration
The European Commission published a new brochure which informs about the process of integrating the so called Western Balkan Countries into the European Research Area. The brochure also highlights four projects coo
The COST targeted network supports mobility costs building a network of administrative excellence
The upcoming deadlines are November 1, 2015 and February 1, 2016!
COST Short Term Scientific Missions (STSM) of the BESTPRAC targeted netw
The book brings together leading research focusing on the conditions for formation of common political order in EU A new volume "The Rise of Common Political Order. Institutions, Public Administration and Transnational Space" acknowledges the crucia
ZSI is now a member of the European Citizen Science Association (ECSA) The European Citizen Science Association (ECSA) is a non-profit association set up to encourage the growth of the Citizen Science movement in Europe. It draws on 200 individual an
Learn more on the relevance of social innovations - project information of SI-Drive SI-Drive has issued the thirteenth edition of the eNewsletter. You will find the eNewsletter here.
SI-Drive is a large-scale research project funded in the Europea
Wie verstehen sich Citizen Science und Open Science? Citizen Science ist Wissenschaft mit Beteiligung der Bürger_innen. Open Science bedeutet, dass die verschiedenen Daten und Ergebnisse allen offen und frei zur Verfügung gestellt werden. Doch was pa
Partner Steinbeis Europa Zentrum (SEZ) is supporting the set-up of three additional DTC In the framework of the ZSI-coordinated Danube-INCO.NET project, the partner Steinbeis-Europa-Zentrum (SEZ) successfully conducted set-up visits to potential Danu
Danube-INCO.NET organises a workshop at OPEN Evaluation 2016. Deadline to submit abstracts prolongued to 08/04 The "Science for Smart Specialisation (S3) workshop: Combining old and new approaches for monitoring and evaluating innovation policies"ses
Kick off Meeting for ESASTAP 2020 The kick-off meeting of the ESASTAP 2020 project took place on the 25th and 26th of February 2016, at Cape Town in South Africa. The meeting effectively launched the activities of the latest incarnation of a project
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ZSI leads project with high impact for public employment services across Europe
News
12. Apr 2017
EmployID has been attested good progress and high impact potential The project EmployID, co-ordinated by ZSI, has presented its 3rd year results to expert reviewers assigned by the European Commission. EmployID aims to design, implement and validate

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Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships at the Centre of Social Innovation
News
17. Mär 2015
ZSI hosts MSC-IF in the field of social sciences and humanities The EC launched a new application round for Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF). Deadline is 10 September 2015. More information about the call can be accessed here.

Open Consultation on promissing fields for cooperation in research and innovation (R&I) between Brazilian and EU actors. The goal of the INCOBRA project is to foster cooperation in research and innovation (R&I) activities between the European Uni
INNO-Policy TrendChart country reports published Country reports on innovation policy were published in March 2012 in the frame of the INNO-Policy TrendChart. Country reports for each of the 48 countries monitored by the network of country corr
Invited by creativ wirtschaft austria and WKO Outstanding enterprises in the field of social innovation in the spotlight: Under the title "Need a boost towards social innovation?" creativ wirtschaft austria together with the EU-office of the Austrian
"Solidarity between generations in work life: reality and chances"
On this year’s annual stakeholder conference of the Territorial Employment Pacts (TEP) the participants discussed “Solidarity between generations in work life:
reality and chance
ZSI portrait in special edition of the FORSEE Newsletter
The 3rd FORSEE Newsletter features a special on the FORSEE partner organisations - in this edition the University of Patras and the Centre for Social Innovation are portrayed. You can also f
Projekt Nanochannels als erfolgreicher Teaser für öffentliche Debatten zum Thema
Als neuen kraftvollen Kommunikationskanal erschließt das Nanochannels Projekt so genannte soziale Medien, um interessierte Öffentlichkeiten in die Debatte um Nanotech
How accessible is your neighborhood? Students from local school join 'MyAccessible.EU' mapping project! Last week ZSI, partner in the MyAccessible.EU project started a mapping project with a local school. During the coming weeks students will go out
Leveraging the Digital & ICT Competences of senior women to extenuate the knowledge divide We invite you to the upcoming conference, A New Age for Learning: Future directions for digital literacy for senior women. The conference is focussed on
Amoungst the Unified User Interface, different other elements are already to be used. In the framework of the eCraft2Learn consortium meeting in Padua researchers demonstrated the first outcomes of their efforts. Amoungst the Unified User Interface,
Danube-INCO.NET organises two workshops in Ulm on October 30 ZSI employees Elke Dall and Desiree Pecarz will be present in Ulm at the Annual Forum of EUSDR. The ZSI-coordinated project Danube-INCO.NET organises two workshops (for more details see lin
ZSI coordinated Black Sea Horizon project successfully organised Workshop in Moscow On March 3, 2016, National Research University - Higher School of Economics (HSE) hosted international workshop “The Future of Agriculture: Global Challenges and Tech
Discussing success factors on how innovation systems can better address the Participation to the ERA Register to the MIRRIS Project webinar on "Discussing the success factors on how innovation systems can better address the Participation to the Europ
LIST Conference: A New Age for Learning We would like to invite you to the upcoming conference, A New Age for Learning: Future directions for digital literacy for senior women. The conference is focussed on influencing European policy on the ne
Support refugee scientists! The Center for Social Innovation - ZSI supports refugee scientists to document their research and to gain a foothold in Austria.
Our initiative “Science in Asylum” offers refugees the possibility to attend seminars that p
Finalists will have a chance to promote their projects at the EU-India Cooperation Days in Rome on the 15-16 Oct. 2015. The young scientist competition of the year is an initiative of the FP7 projects: INNO INDIGO and INDIGO POLICY. It was initiated
ZSI delivers day-long Horizon 2020 training event for EU-Brazil networks In the framework of the INCOBRA project, ZSI Senior Expert Gorazd Weiss and Communication Specialist Michael Wilkinson delivered a day-long training session for selected EU-Braz
Part 1 of the seminar series was successfully held in Vienna. 19 participants from the Eastern Partnership Countries gathered in Vienna for a High-Level Seminar on Research and Innovation Policy. The seminar was organised in the frame of the “EaP Plu
First JFS Joint Call results in securing commitments to fund 10 projects The first Joint Call of the Southeast Asia-Europe Joint Funding Scheme (JFS) for research and innovation has succeeded in securing commitments to fund 10 projects, which will br
The project "RaiSE" published its new promotional video for introducing its activities RaiSE is a project funded under the Interreg Europe programme. It's aim is to enhance the competitiveness of European social enterprises by providing recommendatio