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The Centre for Social Innovation works with more than 500 organisations from all over the world, and with researchers from different disciplinary backgrounds. ZSI projects often tackle multi-layered issues – for example questions on social innovation – which require trans-disciplinary approaches and balanced processes with intercultural knowledge and empathy. |
Our staff has manifold intercultural experiences and cooperates with policy makers, researchers, civil society organisations, schools, and different target groups from several geographical regions, such as South East Europe, Russia, Eastern Partnership countries, Africa, Latin America, East Asia, Southeast Asia and India as well as Canada.
International team
The 50+ experts working at ZSI are from Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Finland, Italy, Kenya, Serbia, Slovenia, and Slovakia. They are researchers of different disciplinary backgrounds, working mainly in inter- and trans-disciplinary research fields. Their academic education includes sociology, economy, political sciences, development studies, psychology, humanities, geography, physics, engineering studies, etc.
Ethics
ZSI is contact node of the Social Innovation Europe Network established by the Young Foundation. ZSI applies the Code of Ethics of the International Sociological Association (ISA), and the RESPECT Code of Practice for Socio-Economic Research and is firmly involved in responsible research and innovation projects.
If you are interested in our intercultural and trans-disciplinary competences, please feel free to get in touch with us.
Contact person: Mag. Dr. Klaus Schuch
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Cooperation Partners
Projects
- Circular Systemic Solutions: Plastic, Packaging, Biowaste, Water
- Next Generation Solutions for Sustainable, Inclusive, Resource-efficient and Resilient Cultural Heritage
- Policy and governance of urban energy prosumption models – examining and co-visioning a social transformation process
- Tackling foreign interference in Research and Innovation
- Welfare systems and labour market policies for economic and social resilience in Europe
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Publications
- Participatory Evaluation and Impact Assessment in Citizen Science
- Evaluation of the Arts-based Research Programme of the Austrian Science Fund (PEEK)
- Conceptual and practical problems of evaluation of international R&I policies
- International R&I cooperation policies revisited: sustained challenges and new developments
- From silence to whispers: Rapido presentation at EuroPCom 2015 by ZSI expert Pamela Bartar
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Events
- Training zu Public und Citizen Engagement
- Extended!! Thinking out-of-the-box with New European Bauhaus for cultural heritage buildings (management & policy making)–with comments from the INHERIT project
- Mutual Learning Exchange on ''Challenges and experiences of multi/inter/trans – disciplinary in CSI collaboration''
- Herausforderung "Partizipation"
- European Science Open Forum 2022
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