Wie gestaltet sich das Leben mit Corona in Österreich? Das Institut für Höhere Studien (IHS) hat die Ergebnisse zahlreicher Projekte zur Beforschung der Auswirkungen der COVID-19 Pandemie auf die...

As part of the EULAC-Focus project, ZSI coordinated and conducted research on EU-LAC relations with a specific focus on their social dimension, their historic genesis, current state and future perspectives...

YMCB - Young migrants' capacity building, gefördert von DG Grow, zielt darauf ab, einen innovativen Ansatz zur Schaffung eines Ökosystems zu entwicklen, um junge Menschen zwischen 18 und 35 Jahren mit...

Ethics is an indispensable part of research and innovation. But the greatest challenge is to embed the principles of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) into large research organisations...

The  Research Committee of the Austrian Parliament held an intensive debate yesterday about the research and innovation system in Austria and what needs to be done to further strengthen it. The research...

Diese Zukunftsstrategie stellt den erhobenen Bedarf an sozialwissenschaftlichen Infrastrukturen in Österreich über die einzelnen Standorte und die verschiedenen Disziplinen hinweg dar – wobei der Bedarf...

The CHERRIES team is pleased to welcome you on our brand-new project website, a virtual window into CHERRIES activities, learnings, and opportunities. News and updates are posted regularly and you can...

Wie gestaltet sich das Leben mit Corona in Österreich? Zahlreiche Forschungsprojekte in Österreich haben seit März begonnen, die Auswirkungen der COVID-19 Pandemie sowie der zu ihrer Eindämmung getroffenen...

On 8th and 9th June 2020, PRO-Ethics held the first of three cross-pilot learning workshops, with 25 participants joining in from 12 partner organisations. The workshop was successfully moved...

Der Auftritt des SARS-COV-2-Virus ändert den Gang der Welt und unterwirft alle Bereiche unserer Gesellschaft Transformationen, deren Dimension wir noch nicht abschätzen können. So auch in Wissenschaft...

"Zwischen Wissenschaft und Politik herrscht seit jeher nicht die große Liebe, dafür sind die Philosophien und Methoden der beiden Sphären zu konträr. Während der Coronakrise kam neues Leben in diese Beziehung...

Die Covid-19-Pandemie und die damit verbundenen Einschränkungen stellen eine Herausforderung für Unternehmer_innen und Selbstständige dar und werfen strategische, wirtschaftliche und persönliche ...

Die Forschung steht angesichts der Corona-Krise unter Zugzwang. Die Erwartungen, eine schnelle Lösung des gesundheitlichen Problems zu finden, sind hoch Peter Illetschko 8. Juni 2020, 09:00 Wissenschafter...

With the worldwide outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are experiencing intense competition between global players as to who can best contain the crisis and who is a reliable international partner in...

Yesterday was a special day for the European science diplomacy community. After months (actually more than a year) of intensive preparations, conceptual discussions and a careful collection of...

Das vom WWTF geförderte Projekt „Lernen im Ausnahmezustand“ untersucht zum einen die Frage sozial ungleicher Lernerfolge und -erfahrungen beim Home Learning, zum anderen gehen wir der Frage nach neuen...

weTHINK.eu is a social network for strategic analysis. It is organised as a think tank with one main novelty that distinguishes it from others: Typically, the policy analyis carried out is not done with...

Im Rahmen des Interreg Alpine Space Projekts TAAFE wurde in Feldbach ein Koordinationskomitee (TRIO) gebildet, in dem Vertreter_innen älterer Bürger_innen und der Gemeinde, unter wissenschaftlicher Begleitung...

Commissioned by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (BMBWF), the ZSI has recently finalised a study that aimed at analysing scientific works jointly co-authored by Austrian...

On the 5th, 6th and 7th of January 2020, the ENTRANCES project (ENergy TRANsitions from Coal and carbon: Effects on Societies), funded by the EU Horizon 2020 programme, held a virtual Kick-off meeting...

On the occasion of Europe Day, 9 May, the S4D4C project (coordinated by ZSI) reached another milestone and published a policy report. The responsible authors from the partner the Spanish Foundation for...

Recently an international working group, established by the European Citizen Science Association - ECSA and the H2020 funded project EU-Citizen Science, set out to address the question: what...

von Dorothea Sturn Selten konnten wir in den Medien so vielen Wissenschaftlern - und weit weniger Wissenschaftlerinnen – zuhören wie derzeit. Anthony Fauci in den USA, Jérôme Salomon in Frankreich, ...

After an open consultation phase in March-April 2020 and the integration of comments and feedback, the final report has now been completed. The objective of the report is to support the development...

    Die SozialMarie 2020 wurde an 15 exzellente soziale Innovationen aus Österreich, der Slowakei, Ungarn, Tschechien und Kroatien von der international besetzten...

by Klaus Schuch Thinking about the future (futures thinking / foresight) is important because it opens up perspectives, even if they never actually materialize as expected. In science, we deal relatively...

In diesem Online-Kurs lernen Sie, wie Sie junge Lernende darin unterstützen können, eine kreative und innovative Denkweise zu entwickeln, um soziale Probleme zu lösen. Sie werden von praktischen und effektiven...

With the release of new tools, the EU-funded Interreg project “Finance for Social Change” (F4SC) will soon enter a new and crucial phase: The #AirMOOC & #AirCompetition (AIR: Accelerating Investment...

DanubeChance2.0 zielt darauf ab, politische und rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen sowie Unterstützungsangebote im Bereich des „Second Chance" Unternehmertums zu verbessern. Dies umfasst einerseits die...

PLOTINA Final Conference Book of Abstracts e-book This E-book is a result of the H2020 PLOTINA project Final Conference, ReGendering Science. For an inclusive research environment, held in the ...

by Klaus Schuch It is true: the virus can just hit us all - the youth in the Moria refugee camp as well as the Prime Minister on Downing Street, but the crisis triggered by the virus is by no means...

The Horizon 2020 Policy Support Facility (PSF) is an instrument aimed at supporting Member States and countries associated to Horizon 2020 to improve the design, implementation and evaluation of their...

Vienna  – The ongoing EU-funded Interreg project “Finance for Social Change” (F4SC) reveals new insights into the social impact investment market of the Danube region. Project member Helmut Gassler...

by Christian Voigt  These days, the old saying ‘Cobbler, stick to your last!’, applies less and less.  Many people are forced to abandon their usual ‘models of work’ and try out new ways ...

The Final Report of the Mutual Learning Exercise on ‘National Strategies and Roadmaps for International Cooperation in R&I’ summarises findings from the workshops, discussions and thematic input papers...

Ein engagierterer und praxisorientierterer Ansatz ist erforderlich, um junge Lernende mit der Denkweise und den Fähigkeiten auszustatten, die innovative Bürger benötigen. Wir empfehlen: die Förderung ...

The European Creative Business Network (ECBN) works – on purposes indirectly and decentralized – by supporting leading agencies, funders and intermediaries on local, regional and/or national level...

careables is a mixed community of people and organisations committed to the co-design and making of open, personalised healthcare for everyone, born from the EU-funded collaborative H2020 project MADE4YOU...

by Klaus Schuch The Austrian shutdown regulations are a massive intervention in our freedom rights. We are just allowed to leave our homes for work, buying basic articles, physical outdoor exercise...

by Elke Dall and Klaus Schuch While revisiting the intial risk analysis for research projects is sometimes more a "compulsory exercise" that needs to be done during the interim and final reporting ...

by Ursula Holtgrewe In the Covid-19 pandemic, it seems that current valuations of various types of work are being rearranged. For service work in particular, some well-known conundrums come into sharp...

The S4D4C project supports current and future European science diplomacy for the benefit of European capacities, EU foreign policy goals and especially the development of solutions for global challenges...

“Open Access: an opportunity for Malta” - Recommendations for the Development of a National Policy for Open Access to publications, research data and related issues for Malta is a report which was carried...

Für alle, die sich über Citizen Science in Europa informieren wollen, Projekte erkunden oder auch eigene Inhalte zum Thema zur Verfügung stellen wollen, gibt es jetzt die neue EU-Citizen.Science Plattform...

by Ursula Holtgrewe and Klaus Schuch The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has triggered a comprehensive real experiment in the Austrian school system as in other countries: In an unevenly digitised learning landscape...

by Klaus Schuch Biosecurity issues such as pandemic virus outbreaks have been clearly underestimated in the past in comparison to other security issues. The crisis has shown that the interplay between...

Philipp Brugner aus der Abteilung Forschungspolitik und Entwicklung kommentiert in der WIENER ZEITUNG das Krisenmanagement der Europäischen Union im Kampf gegen das neuartige Corona-Virus und argumentiert...

by Klaus Schuch The Covid-19-quarantine forces (almost) everyone who works in the office area, or - as we do - in the knowledge-generating and knowledge-processing industries, to work from home and...

by Klaus Schuch The Covid-19 crisis remarkably demonstrates that social action and cooperation counts to mitigate the risk of the virus. Worldwide, we are managing the containment of the virus by comprehensive...

In her publication, ilse Marschalek investigated the roles that 'Public Participation Practitioners' play in the attempt to transform the relationship between science and society though the adoption of...