Participants of the PSF mutual learning exercise on "National Strategies and Roadmaps for International Cooperation in R&I" agreed that embedding of international R&I strategies in national and...

Bratislava, Vienna – RESINFRA@DR Know-how exchange forum focused on Research Infrastructures (RI) mutual support activities in the Danube Macro-region hosted by RESINFRA@DR, took place on 22-23 May 2019...

SENSES Pitching in Austria On March 1st 2019 the pitching event took place in the frame of the SENSES knowledge transfer and networking event. Eight Austrian social entrepreneurs took the opportunity...

PhD students are cordially invivted to the PhD Workshop taking place one day before the ESSI 2019 conference. The PhD Workshop is designed to give PhD students the opportunity to: Receive feedback...

The European Commission's progress report on Kosovo* 2019 mentions as a positive not, the improvement of the NCP system for H2020 which is directly linked with the HERAS project, supported by the...

Project Leader Partner Centre for Social Innovation (ZSI), on behalf of the whole project consortium, is pleased to invite you to the Excellence-in-ReSTI final event and award ceremony held at the Charles...

The Synergy Meeting "Perspectives for Research Infrastructures in the Danube Macro-region" hosted by ResInfra@DR project will take place from 12-13 June in Vienna, Austria. The deadline for registration...

Einladung zur Veranstaltung Soziale Innovation in der Regionalentwicklung – Akteure, Chancen und Herausforderungen Wie wichtig sind sozial innovative Projekte, soziale Ziele und neue Formen der ...

The first Virtual Event focusing on "How is the EU-SPI constructed? What is the methodology behind it?" is going to take place on the 4th of June 2019. In the frame of the EU SPI Pilot project, the...

The EU-funded project EU-Citizen.Science has launched its website: http://eu-citizen.science/ In the future this will be the place for sharing, initating and learning Citizen Science in Europe...

The All-Ukrainian Festival of Innovation took place on May 16 at the Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce. It was opened by the Prime Minister of Ukraine, Mr. Volodymyr Groysman, who emphasised the "existing...

Gemeinsam mit arbeit plus möchten wir vom Zentrum für Soziale Innovation - ZSI euch herzlich zur halbtägigen Veranstaltung "Digitale Transformation durch digitale Inklusion" einladen! Digitalisierung...

we will be preseting careables during the upcoming Communities and Technologies 2019 Conference, which is taking place in Vienna, 3.-7. June 2019.  The event aims to stimulate scholarly debate...

A short video informs about the development of STI cooperation between Eastern Partnership Countries and the EU. You can watch it here!

On the 9th of May 2019 ZSI organised the 4th Austrian SENSES Stakeholder Meeting. It gave social entrepreneurs and representatives of traditional enterprises, CSR and supporting organisations the possibility...

SSH-Guidelines for mission-oriented research & SSHintegration now available as old-fashioned print version If you want copies (it's a really nice folder), you can download them here.

Seit zehn Jahren gibt es die "Östliche Partnerschaft" der Europäischen Union, die zu einer vertieften Kooperation mit den Ländern in ihrer östlichen Nachbarschaft führen soll. Am 14. Mai lädt EU-Kommissionspräsident...

From 24 to 26 April, 350 delegates from 40 countries presented 245 papers on the campus of the University of Vienna. Many had made their way from outside of Europe, from Argentina, Chile, Canada, the ...

Auf Einladung der Museums-Kurator*innen (Georg Spitaler) der neuen Ausstellung im Wien Museum "Das Rote Wien.1919-1934" diskutierten die Stadtgeographin Yvonne Franz, der Aktivist und Experte für Wohnpolitik...

Science-business links (SBL) are an important element of research and innovation (R&I) policies in many countries and are high on the policy agenda of those trying to catch up with the EU’s innovation...

ResInfra@DR project’s mission is to improve framework conditions for research infrastructures (RIs) and innovation in the Danube macro-region. One key objective of the project is to contribute to the ...

Policy makers, representatives of managing authorities, support service organisations, agencies, applied research associations, NGOs, and others who are actively engaged in tackling social progress issues...

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On behalf of the Excellence-in-ReSTI project consortium, we are pleased to inform you that the Strategy and Roadmap document has been finalized. The document provides a summary of current challenges...

A new publication discusses published in PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America) discusses the question of why we should agree internationally what we consider...

On 24 April 2019, the project HERAS  organised in cooperation with the Ministry of Educations, Science and Technology a workshop in Prishtina to promote the recently developed regulation on innovation...

Last week, on the 16th of April ZSI hosted a Train the Trainer workshop on good practices in the area of second-chance entrepreneurship policies and programmes. A day later the same event was held in ...

Wer Karriere in der Wissenschaft machen will, ist auf Publikationen in renommierten Fachzeitschriften angewiesen. Ein Milliardengeschäft für Elsevier, die Nummer 1 unter den Wissensverlagen. Die Papers...

19 organisations all around Europe are on a mission to map STEAM education outside the classroom in 24 countries as part of the SySTEM 2020 project. Little is known about science learning initiatives ...

This Working Paper builds on the scientific discourse on valuation of SSH research as well as SSH-integration in EU framework programmes and aims at summarizing the key findings from the November 2018...

On April 12, the ESASTAP partners organised a final event at the European Commission with the presence of Director Generals Jean-Eric Paquet (European Commission, DG Research) and Dr. Phil Mjwara (Directorate...

The Horizon 2020 Policy Support Facility (PSF), which is supported by Technopolis, ZSI and the Manchester Institute of Innovation and Research, has published an overview of the Mutual Learning Exercise...

The Energy Social Lab Workshop of the NewHoRRIzon project is going into its second round (4th and 5th of April 2019) in Payerbach, Reichenau an der Rax (AT). Aim for this second lab is to further evolve...

Resinfra@DR’s project mission is to improve framework conditions for research infrastructure (RI) and innovation in the Danube macro-region and to facilitate enhanced transnational cooperation, capacity...

EaP PLUS is a Horizon 2020 funded project supporting the cooperation between researchers from the Eastern Partnership countries and EU Member states. More specifically, the project aims to enhance the...

A delegation of the National Innovation Agency (NIA) of Thailand and representatives of the Thai embassy in Austria visited the Center for Social Innovation today. Lead by Dr. Pun-Arj Chairatana, Executive...

Danube Chance 2.0 – Aus Fehlern lernen Mentoring Workshop für UnternehmerInnen und jene die es noch werden wollen. Scheitern gehört für UnternehmerInnen dazu. Die Hälfte der im EU Raum gegründeten...

Inwieweit tragen die Beratung und Unterstützung von personen mit ausländischen Qualifikationen in der Servicestelle zur Erschließung ausländischer Qualifikationen in München dazu bei, dem Fachkräftemangel...

Launch of the 2019 European Social Innovation Competition: €150,000 for three innovations reducing plastic waste The European Commission launched the 2019 edition of the European Social Innovation ...

    Experts from EU funding institutions and the field of EU project management and practitioners provide you with profound knowledge on all topics related to EU funding.   &...

The EULAC FOCUS project takes up the recent events in Venezuela and links them to the research insights that have been produced by the project. In a "Hot-topic web-conference"  three speakers...

Am 19.3.2019 wurden die Ergebnisse der vom ZSI durchgeführten Studie „Regionalinitative Frauenbeschäftigung - Studie zum Betreuungsbedarf und Betreuungsangebot (Kinder und Pflege) in der Region Obersteiermark...

The purpose of this questionnaire is to provide organisations with the possibility to check their know-how in five areas of EU funding and project management in which the Excellence-in-ReSTI project and...

The European project DOIT invites all young social innovators and makers from 14 to 16 years! Within our online action, we we will work on challenges on the topic "Living Together". We start at 25th of...

Das im Rahmen des Projekts SENSES entwickelte Online-Training ist ab sofort verfügbar. Es kann nach erfolgter Registrierung kostenlos genutzt werden: https://senses.ifka.hu/ Die Materialien vermitteln...

In the framework of the project “Facilitating macro-regional scope and link up to socio-economic actors of Research Infrastructure in the Danube Region - ResInfra@DR”, the Executive Agency for Higher ...

Representatives of the European Commission, the Portuguese government, of cities, projects and initiatives of social innovation debated the possibilities and necessities to embed social innovation deeper...

On Friday, March 8, the meeting “Social Sciences and Humanities in Horizon Europe” took place on the premises of the Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS), Vienna. As the current EU Research Funding Program...

We are happy to present Vol. 10 of the ResInfra@DR newsletter which showcases once again our joint efforts to strengthen the framework conditions for research infrastructures in the Danube region. The...

One of the principal objectives of the S4D4C project (coordinated by ZSI) is to increase the capacities of EU and EU Member State science diplomats and to offer relevant knowledge resources and training...