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 ...

PRO-Ethics aims to test new, ethical ways to involve citizens in decision making processes, using pilots to gather real-world learnings that may inform the development of a comprehensive ethics framework...

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...

In the framework of the EC funded project NewHoRRIzon 19 Social Labs have been established all over Europe to address the diverse topics of the Horizon 2020 Working Programme.  A Social Lab is...

Africa and Europe’s renewable energy strategy is critical for ensuring the sustainable development of both continents. The LEAP-RE project is committed to supporting research and innovation to develop...

The S4D4C project (launched in 2018) is coming to an end. S4D4C stands for "Using Science for/in diplomacy for addressing global challenges" which is funded by Horizon 2020 - supporting current and future...

DanubeChance2.0 offers an incubation programme for entrepreneurs in crisis in Germany, Hungary, Romanina Slovenia and Serbia. Entrepreneurs in crisis receive coaching and one-on-one-mentoring to help ...

"Junge Forschung" heißt eine Reihe der "die PRESSE", die junge Forscher und Forscherinnen, die in Österreich arbeiten, vorstellt. Am 25.2.2021 wurde die ZSI-Mitarbeiterin Barbara Glinsner porträtiert. ...

Throughout 2020, the RFO partners of PRO-Ethics spent considerable time sharing and exchanging their experiences from four participatory pilots of our “pilot phase I”. We are excited to share our learnings...

The careables project has recently entered a new phase. From a 3-years EC funded project under the lead of ZSI it recently transferred into a global partnership that supports all the communities ...

Das Projekt “Lernen im Ausnahmezustand“ ist im Frühjahr 2020 zwei Fragen nachgegangen, die sich bereits mit den ersten Schulschließungen stellten: (1) Verteilen sich die Belastungen und negativen Folgen...

In fall 2020, ZSI surveyed the extent to which social innovation has found its way into the academic sphere (teaching & research & third mission) of Austrian universities. For this purpose, a ...

„NZZ PRO Global“ ist ein eigenes Angebot der NZZ – Neue Zürcher Zeitung, das sich als Informationsplattform für Entscheidungsträger versteht. Die Plattform bietet vertiefte Einblicke in aktuelle globale...

On 22 February 2021, the TRESCA consortium will join and participate in the Annual Network Conference, hosted by partner Science|Business. The event R&I in recovery: What can Horizon Europe deliver...

Scientists working under the umbrella of the EU project ETHNA System have identified a comprehensive overview of good governance practices towards responsible research and innovation (RRI) in Europe: ...

Die Julius Raab Stiftung hat gemeinsam mit FAS Research die sog. NAVIGATEUR-Studie veröffentlicht. Darin wurde unter anderem die Frage nach den richtungsweisenden Ideen- und Impulsgebern zur Stärkung ...

An ethical framework to guide stakeholder participation would be useful for organisations needing to demonstrate the value of involving citizens and end-users in innovation processes. While PRO-Ethics...

In January 2021 we kicked-off a new research project, which is concerned witht RRI (Responsible Research and Innovation) practices in maker communities.  In this project, which is coordinated ...

It was launched in fall 2020 in Slovenia, Croatia, Germany, Romania, Moldova, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Hungary and will deliver a practical second-chance acceleration and business plan re-make...

A new report on the Eurostars funding programme shows that including an ethical review in the evaluation process improves the project quality and makes decision-makers more confident in putting money ...

Seit mehr als 15 Jahren beschäftigt sich Elke Dall mit internationaler Forschungs- und Technologiepolitik. Dabei lagen bisherige Schwerpunkte auf der Ausweitung des Europäischen Forschungsraumes in Südosteuropa...

Safe and nutritious food is key to sustaining life and promoting good health, yet the current EU food safety system falters when a need to quickly adapt to a continuously evolving food chain arises. The...

The workshop starts from the observation that while Citizen Science is highly participatory, evaluation does not live up to this claim. In the workshop we will explore existing approaches to participatory...

Das Projekt “Lernen im Ausnahmezustand“ ist der Frage nachgegangen ob die Schulschließungen Bildungsungleichheiten in Österreich vertiefen und welche Chancen für selbstorganisiertes Lernen, neue Freiräume...

The S4D4C project is soon coming to an end and wishes to collect the science diplomacy community´s input on the concept and its future. We kindly ask you to spare 10 minutes of your time and to fill...

On 21 January 2021, 16 Horizon 2020 citizen science projects met to facilitate interaction and exploit synergies, as well as to collect policy feedback. The meeting had been called by the Research Executive...