Competences
Methods & Skills
The Centre for Social Innovation conducts bibliometric analyses of international academic co-publications. This work relates to and builds upon ZSI’s research activities in the area of the internationalisation of science, technology, and innovation.
ZSI offers web-based interactive data visualisations for visual analytics and user-centred data exploration.
Relation between digitalisation and social change
Social scientific methods used to assess efficiency, effectiveness, relevance, impact and much more
Event Management
Foresight / Forward-Looking Activities
Indicator Development
Innovation Management
Intercultural & Transdisciplinary Cooperation
Policy Analysis & Peer Review
Social Network Analysis
Thematic Areas
Supporting all Sustainable Development Goals
Contributing to SDG 9 (Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure) and SDG 17 (Partnership for the Goals)
Contributing to SDG 3 (Health and Population)
Contributing to SDG 4 (Quality Education)
Contributing to sustainability and SDG 7 (Affordable and Clean Energy), SDG 13 (Climate Action), SDG 15 (Life on Land) and SDG 2 (Zero Hunger)
Contributing to SDG 5 (Gender equality)
Information and Communication Technologies
Supporting SDG 8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth)
Supporting SDG 10 (Reduced inequalities)
Analysing and developing research and innovation (R&I) policies
Open Science makes all components of the scientific process openly accessible, comprehensible and reusable. It opens up new possibilities for science, society and the economy in dealing with scientific findings.
Supporting SDG 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities)
Contributing to SDG 9 (Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure) and SDG 17 (Partnership for the Goals)
Supporting SDG 12 (Responsible Consumption and Production) and SDG 4 (Quality Education)
Supporting SDG 10 (Reducing Inequalities)
Supporting all Sustainable Development Goals
Supporting SDG 17 (Partnership for the Goals)
Supporting SDG 4 (Quality Education)
Regions
Africa
International R&I cooperation with North America
Central Asia
East Asia
The Eastern Partnership Countries are important neighbours for the EU in general and Austria in particular.
Latin America & Caribbean
The Centre for Social Innovation is supporting research policy-related activities connecting Southeast Asia and Europe since 2008. It provides analyses on innovation systems and cooperation, and results of policy-level and research funding stakeholders.
The Western Balkans are a region very much in focus of ZSI's work - extending to the whole Central and South Eastern Europe (and EU-13)
With our competences we support the implementation of the SDGs