During the last three years, the EU-Citizen.Science project created a hub for Citizen Science in Europe. Watch how you can make use of it (in English with German subtitles):    &...

After the end of the S4D4C project, the CORDIS editorial team interviewed the project coordinator from ZSI, Elke Dall to highlight the key results of the project. Read the full article here in German...

Lesen Sie in dieser Ausgabe einen Rückblick auf das erste SEED-Hub Social Business Forum und erfahren Sie über weitere Möglichkeiten zur Teilnahme für Social Entrepreneurs und soziale Innovator*Innen: ...

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...

Interview am 7. November 2021 von Thomas Pressberger (Kurier) mit Dr.in Mag.a Irina Vana (ZSI)

In view of the soon end of the Finance4SocialChange the Austrian team consisting of ASHOKA and ZSI would like to debrief kindly about the achievements and challenges of the project in a dedicated meeting...

  Finance4SocialCahnge has contributed in teh last 3 years to social impact investment through strategy support and practical offers to the community of finacing actors accross the entire region...

Dieser und anderen Fragen ging das FFG Webinar nach. Das ZSI wurde eingeladen, im Webinar der FFG zur Einbindung geistes-, sozial- und kulturwissenschaftliche Expertise in Horizon Europe  als Testimonial...

On October 28, the Commission celebrated the contract awards of the 73 projects selected for funding under the Horizon 2020 European Green Deal Call worth €1 billion. This last call under Horizon 2020...

  Transition2BIO H2020 project is inviting you to participate to the Mobilization and Mutual Learning (MML) Workshop ‘Toward the green transition...

In October, the Step Change project launched its first newsletter with insights into the stakeholder engagement processes, how to ensure inclusivity and diversity in citizen science initiatives and an...

On October 19, already for the third time ZSI experts delivered a dedicated research and innovation management training for the innovation management unit of the Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics...

Presently, SMEs and maker communities across Europe are coming together to fundamentally change the way we create, produce, and distribute products. We’re establishing new collaborations between companies...

The project Finance4SocialChange ends with December 2021. In view of the achievements and its prolongation to run 40 months that enabled a more sustained and durable approach of the partnership, also ...

In its efforts of reaching out to rural change-makers in Central Europe the CERUSI Partnership set up a series of three webinars (online courses) dedicated to the topic of the “Borders of Rural Social...

Das DIRECT HUB Impact Café fand am 20. September 2021 im Wiener Impact Hub statt, viele Kreislaufwirtschaftsexpert*Innen und Praktiker*innen folgten der Einladung des Projektkoordinators alchemia-novas...

VHS Urania Impulsvortrag und Podiumsdiskussion Welche Chancen und Herausforderungen bringt die aktive Einbindung von Bürger*innen und Patient*innen in Forschung? Welche Möglichkeiten der Mitgestaltung...

The main purpose of the workshop is to present the results of the mentoring program, to identify and discuss best practices in supporting entrepreneurs in challenging times and exchange experiences with...

The European Week of Regions and Cities (#EURegionsWeek) is the biggest annual Brussels-based event dedicated to cohesion policy. At this year’s edition, held mostly online, ZSI will co-organise a workshop...

Die österreichische Bundesregierung setzte im Rahmen ihres Arbeitsprogramms, der FTI-Strategie 2030 sowie des FTI-Pakts 2021-2023 politische Signale für eine verstärkte Missionsorientierung in der österreichischen...

F4SC organises a Local Policy Focus Group Workshop (LPFG) that will provide a short overview on the status quo of the project and will introduce to a recent OECD project. ASHOKA participates as a partner...

With the aim of refining and finetuning the first version of the ETHNA System concept, the ETHNA partnership conducted a series of semi-structured interviews and organized interactive and participatory...

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...

The StepChange project brings together 10 partners implementing 5 citizen science initiatives in the areas of health, energy and environment, supported with mutual learning, training and participative...

The Southeast Asia-Europe Joint Funding Scheme (SEA-EU JFS) started its activities in 2017. It is part of the International Service Facility of the European Commission and manages the administration, ...

Newsletter 3: Lokale Umsetzung des TAAFE-Projekts im COVID-Kontext Seit Ende 2020 und vor allem Anfang 2021 adaptieren die fünf Piloten des TAAFE-Projekts (Stadt Treviso, IT, Stadt Feldbach, AU, Stadt...

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...

Learn more about the Social Impact Investment Strategy for the Danube region! This workshop targets political actors, investors, organizations, and (social) enterprises that are interested in the development...

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...

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...

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...