The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) strive for inclusive and cohesive societies that live in prosperity while respecting planetary boundaries. In our discussion we want to explore pathways to ...

Articulated around the theme ‘New Life Sciences: towards Sustainable Developments Goals (SDGs)’, the conference was the ninth event of this kind hosted by the Library of Alexandria. Numerous scientists...

Excellence in research, social and technological innovation project management (hereinafter: Excellence-in-ReSTI) is a cooperation project funded by the Danube Transnational Programme (DTP) with the aim...

The ResInfra@DR project is funded under INTERREG Danube Transnational Cooperation Programme, supported by European Union funds (ERDF, IPA), and co-funded by the project partners or from national public...

Our project mission is to improve framework conditions for research infrastructure in the Danube region. Therefore, ResInfra@DR facilitates enhanced transnational cooperation and a macro-regional scope...

The Made in Danube Consortium is inviting you to join its  Innovation Management Training on 30th May 2018 in Budapest, Hungary! After this training, participants will be able to overview and...

PLOTINA ist ein europäisches Projekt (2016-2020), das zu mehr Geschlechtergerechtigkeit im Forschungsbereich beitragen möchte. Das Projekt zielt insbesondere auf die wissenschaftliche Karriereentwicklung...

  For creating economic value and social prosperity, production research has to generate knowledge sensitive to society’s needs and transferable “just in time” to the economic environment by innovative...

Am 25. April 2018 fand am ZSI ein von viel-anthropie organisierter Round-Table über BürgerInnen-Stiftungen statt, um aus Erfahrungen von Deutschland und anderen europäischen Ländern zu lernen, wie diese...

As part of the EaP Plus initiative, two series of webinars regularly deliver new trainings. Each series has a different focus, the first one being articulated around the topic of Horizon 2020, and the...

The final report of this very exiting and prolific exercise builds on the exchange of experiences and mutual learning of 13 countries: Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, France, Latvia...

Die Ergebnisse einer von einem internationalen Konsortium unter der Leitung von Alexander Degelsegger-Marquéz (Zentrum für Soziale Innovation) und John Rigby (Universität Manchester) durchgeführten Analyse...

Excellence in ReSTI, a project funded by the Danube Transnational Programme will set up a pilot training programme, consisting of the following five modules: EU policies, project design, project management...

The Interreg Danube Transnational Project “Excellence in research, social and technological innovation” (Excellence-in-ReSTI) has entered into an intense and interesting period. The partners started to...

On 21 March 2018, an INCOBRA-ENRICH Horizon 2020 Info Day was held at the Porto Digital campus in Recife. The event was aimed at training researchers, managers of public and private companies and innovators...

In 2017 the first step of the acceleration programme of SENSES was taken. Screening the social entrepreneurial landscape in the Danube region, good and transferable policy making practices, their...

On 19th June the eCraft2Learn project organizes a STEAM Learning in Formal & Informal Settings via Craft and Maker Projects Workshop during the 17th Interaction Design and Children Conference...

The PLOTINA Project has been designed to encourage, support and develop progress towards gender equality in the academic community. It aims to develop, implement and assess self-tailored Gender Equality...

The Made in Danube project tries to improve framework conditions for the cooperation between University, Industry, Public Authorities and civil society by developing innovation tools which will match ...

Event Background and Objective The Danube macro-region provides ideal framework conditions for bio-economy due to high-quality natural resources, well-known universities and a strong industrial tissue...

The aim of this study by the European Parliamentary Research Service, is to explore, identify and shed light on the reasons for the low participation and success rate of the EU-13 countries, in order ...

The overall mission of the Austrian Presidency of the Council of the Europen Union conference on ‘Impact of Social Sciences and Humanities for a European Research Agenda - Valuation of SSH research in...

HERAS - Higher Education, Research and Applied Science in Kosovo is a project funded by the Austrian Development Agency (ADA) with funds from the Austrian Development Cooperation and a co-financing by...

The objective of the conference is to bring valuation (i.e. the provision of added value through SSH and arts-based research) and impact contributions of social sciences and humanities (SSH) research ...

In einer bewegenden Feier, bei der auch zwei Ehrendoktorate an Wissenschafter vergeben wurden, die als Kinder vor der nationalsozialistischen Politik aus Wien flüchten mussten, wurde Alexander Degelsegger...

Research and Innovation (R&I) policy is more than ever charged with demonstrating societal impact. If the new impact agenda of R&I policy is taken seriously, than this has several implications...

Das ZSI allgemein und insbesondere auch als Mitglied der Österreichischen Plattform für Forschungs- und Technologiepolitikevaluierung  trauert um den ehemaligen Leiter der fteval, der die Plattform...

Event Background and Objective The Danube macro-region provides ideal framework conditions for bio-economy due to high-quality natural resources, well-known universities and a strong industrial tissue...

Event Background and Objective The Danube macro-region provides ideal framework conditions for bio-economy due to high-quality natural resources, well-known universities and a strong industrial tissue...

The Graphene EU Flagship project has organised on 1 March 2018 a workshop on impact measurement at Chalmers Technical University in Göteborg. The workshop brought together the largest EU scientific projects...

Am Donnerstag und Freitag vergangener Woche, 22. und 23. Februar 2018, fand am ZSI die erste Schulungseinheit des zweiten Zyklus der Gründungsunterstützung für migrantische UnternehmerInnen des Projektes...

Das 62. Netzwerktreffen, zu Gast an der Pädagogischen Hochschule Wien, widmete sich dem Thema „Neue Entwicklungen in der österreichischen Wissenschaftsvermittlung". Pamela Bartar, ZSI, präsentierte im...

This report reviews Latvia’s existing funding allocation systems and processes and proposes improvements based on best practice, including an overall institutional/organisational structure for managing...

Conference Date and Location END 2018 will be held in Budapest, Hungary (hotel Novotel Budapest Centrum) and will occur from 23 to 25 of June, 2018. Important Dates (Last Call for Abstracts) - Abstract...

Excellence-in-ReSTI project aims to improve knowledge and skills in managing social and technological innovation projects. Its mission is to increase employability and the quality of R&D&I projects...

ZSI – Centre for Social Innovation (Vienna) in cooperation with the Union of Slovak Clusters (UKS) organised the event to bring together representatives of higher education institutions, clusters, SMEs...

In response to the current open calls in the field of transport and aviation in Horizon 2020, the RI-LINKS2UA project organised a targeted info day at the National Aviation University (NAU) of Ukraine...

Five experts acting as trainers and 31 participants started the first ResInfra@DR training in Sofia which is hosted by project partner ARC Fund. Participants come from 11 countries including Bulgaria, ...

Im Dezember 2017 wurde das dreijährige Projekt BLOOM begonnen. Martin Tauss verfasste Ende Jänner 2018 einen Schwerpunkt zu Bioökonomie. Auch das Projekt BLOOM wird dabei vorgestellt. Der Artikel gibt...

Brussels, 16 April 2018 - Committee of the Regions, rue Belliard 99-101, B-1000 Brussels (room JDE52) Registration now open!    Cities and regions are among the most fertile contexts for...

Between January and March 2018, Social Innovation Community is running a public consultation to identify the key policy challenges that are preventing Europe’s diverse social innovation community from...

Read in our third newsletter about the four practices that have been selected under the EP-DeM Award: EP-DeM Newsletter 3. With this award, we aimed at recognising and supporting the efforts of those ...

Join us this March in Zagreb for our second Social Learning Relay, designed to strengthen your social impact initiatives! The SIC - Social Innovation Community project is happy to invite you to an ...

Science diplomacy can be described, in its broadest sense, as all those activities that span the spheres of science, on the one hand, and diplomacy, on the other. Science advice to multilateral climate...

The Made in Danube Project held its first best practice workshop dedicated to the capacities and opportunities related to the social-, service-, and eco-innovations in the Bio-economy sector. The objective...

The Interreg Danube Transnational Project “Excellence in research, social and technological innovation” (Excellence-in-ReSTI) has wrapped up its first-year activities and turns into the new year with ...

The BSH project created the "€Black Sea Cooperation Programme"€ (BSCP)€ which was presented and discussed in a dedicated Conference in Athens, in May 2017. Building on the momentum created with the...

Der anonymisierte Datensatz des FIMAS-Projekts, Integrationsmaßnahmen und Arbeitsmarkterfolg von Flüchtlingen und subsidiär Schutzberechtigten in Österreich, kann von Forscherinnen und Forschern für eigene...

In 2015 South Africa and Austria signed a Memorandum of Understanding for cooperation in science and research. The 7th national "Beyond Europe Roundtable" focused on how to strenghten cooperation between...