The RRI-ICT Forum kicked off in Brussels last week! It is a 36-month project (January 2015 - December 2017) aiming at monitoring, analysing, supporting and promoting Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH...

The Danube-INCO.NET team has recently finalised a survey for identifying  those social, political and economic bottlenecks as to S&T cooperation in the Danube region and to put forward corresponding...

Sehen Sie die Podiumsdiskussion auf der Website von OKTO TV. ZARA:Talk ist eine Diskussionsreihe der Menschenrechtsorganisation ZARA – Zivilcourage und Anti-Rassismus-Arbeit, die im Veranstaltungssaal...

The BILAT-UKR*AINA project, coordinated by Centre for Social Innovation, organised the 2nd Stakeholder Forum entitled “Enhancing Ukraine’s Competitiveness in R&I on the way to the Association to Horizon...

Der Beitrag erschien am 28.01.2015 auf CORDIS, Forschungs- und Entwicklungsinformationsdienst der Gemeinschaft. Das VERA-Projektteam präsentierte vergangene Woche auf seiner Abschlusskonferenz in Brüssel...

Vienna, 28 January 2015 New European Member States are statistically under-represented, compared to EU15, in terms of participation to FP7 – the former EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation...

The Russian Education and Science Minister has said Moscow will create a scheme to help increase the country’s participation in Horizon 2020. Read more here.

'The entire question of the capacity for innovation is not limited to technology, in the view of the Chancellor. Social and societal innovations are also important ...' This was one of the main conclusions...

The final event of the VERA Forward Visions on the European Research Area project is taking place in Brussels on 21 January 2015. The conference is targeted at policy makers at...

In the second of a three-part analysis of the global interest in social innovation, Dr Andrew Curtis and Tara Anderson (currently enrolled in the Master Course on Social Innovation organised by ZSI together...

As a result of the ROLE project the book "Responsive Open Learning Environments” has just been published online by Springer: http://bit.ly/role-book We have made it available as Open Access to maximise...

Als ältester Preis für soziale Innovation würdigt die SozialMarie bereits zum elften Mal hervorragende Projekte aus Österreich und seinen Nachbarländern. Die 15 Preisträger werden von einer Jury ermittelt...

The IncoNet CA is an International Cooperation Network project, funded under the EU’s 7th Framework Programme for Research and Technology Development (FP7). The IncoNet CA targets the countries of...

ZSI has been asked by the organisers to promote the Call for Papers for the conference RESSH 2015 (Research Evaluation for the Social Sciences and the Humanities) which can be submitted till January 31...

Das zunehmend rasche Altern der europäischen Bevölkerung und damit das Risiko eines immer weiteren Auseinanderdriftens der Generationen in digitaler Kompetenz und Lebensqualität ist eine große Herausforderung...

Karl Haegeman, Alexander Sokolov, Manfred Spiesberger (senior researcher at ZSI) and Marc Boden published a new article on 'Facilitating EU-Russian Scientific and Societal Engagement: Joint Efforts to...

Der Begriff Citizen Science (oder BürgerInnenwissenschaft) taucht in letzter Zeit vermehrt in den Medien und in der Fachwelt auf. Erst Ende des Jahres 2014 wurde nach dem Grünbuch ein Weißbuch zum Thema...

Die Journalistin Eva Stanzl sprach mit dem wissenschaftlichen Leiter des ZSI: Das ganze Interview online nachlesen... Wie steht es um die Sozialwissenschaften in Österreich? Nicht gut. Beim Wissenschaftsfonds...

CALL FOR TRAINERS/EXPERTS! ZSI publicly announces this call for experts to provide trainings within two subsequent seminars on one or more of the following topics: The theoretical foundations...

IncoNet EaP and IncoNet CA, the "STI International Cooperation Networks for Eastern Europe and Central Asia" will implement "Twinning Grants" as a funding instrument---one of the core activities of these...