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...

On 2 December 2014 the second ener2i EU brokerage event to foster networking and knowledge exchange between transnational and local stakeholders and to support the development of joint projects and co...

The workshop, which was held on 6-7 November 2014 in Athens, was organised by IncoNet EaP specifically to identify relevant topics and sub-topics for the EU-EaP STI co-operation. The current meeting focused...

Sie können jetzt den Endbericht der wissenschaftliche Begleitung des Projekts Fordergrund hier herunterladen!  Kernstück des Projekts Fordergrund war ein Basisbildungsangebot, das sich speziell...

Last week a series of high-level policy dialogue meetings took place under the support of ERA-Can+ in Ottawa, Canada. The Joint Science and Technology Coordination Committee (JSTCC) decided over the focus...

Der im Rahmen des postgradualen Lehrgangs "Sozialwissenschaftliche Berufsqualifizierung" (SOQUA) betreute ERASMUS+ Antrag (SOQUA-Abschlussarbeit von Petra Biberhofer von der WU-Wien) gehört zu den lediglich...

The IncoNet EaP and IncoNet CA projects focus on the societal challenges climate change, environment, energy, and health; just like SEA-EU-NET 2, the project organising the ASEAN-EU STI Days 2015. Inviting...

In the framework of the ALCUE NET and ABEST III projects and the close collaboration of the Research Institute for Non-Conventional Energy (INENCO) a workshop on geothermal energy will take...

Based around SUSTAIN EU-ASEAN’s thematic clusters (cities and natural resources), the workshop will focus on identifying and discussing gaps in research activities, particularly gaps in EU...

SI-Drive has issued the fourth edition of the eNewsletter. You will find the eNewsletter here. SI-Drive is a large-scale research project funded in the European Union’s 7th Framework Programme. One...

BESTPRAC is a network for the administrative, finance and legal services in universities, research organizations and related entities supporting researchers involved in the lifecycle of transnational ...

On the 10 to 12th of December the kick-off activities of CEI-ener2i-MD took place in Chisinau. The ener2i Energy Innovation Workshop and Brokerage Event were an excellent occasion to present the project...

Lesen Sie den gesamten Beitrag in der Online-Ausgabe... Der Wissenschaftsbetrieb will Laien stärker mit einbeziehen und Forschungsergebnisse frei zugänglich machen. von Eva Stanzl Wissen zu...

Das Forschungsprojekt „Social Innovation. Driving Force of Social Change“, SI DRIVE, wurde im November erstmals einer breiten internationalen Fachöffentlichkeit im Rahmen der SI LIVE Konferenz in Lissabon...

Important stakeholders from science, academia, industry, SMEs and policy makers joined the 5th edition of the EU-India STI cooperation days to discuss ongoing and future cooperation and to set the scene...

In the framework of the task Support for evidence based policy making, ZSI has prepared a policy brief on co-patenting in India. By providing insights into current burning policy issues such as the Intellectual...

The MIRRIS (Mobilising Institutional Reforms in Research and Innovation Systems) aims at encouraging a better exploitation of European research and innovation programmes and participation in the European...

The SEA-EU-NET 2 analysis team, led by ZSI, has finalised a report on framework conditions for innovation in Southeast Asia. It focuses on the relevance, current state, and future potential of issues ...

A group of 15 participants gathered in Vienna at a local community center. A mixed group of people from the neighborhood, wanting to „explore their area through different eyes“, students from the University...

The Forum aims to provide a platform for Ukrainian and EU stakeholders to facilitate the exchange of good and transferable practices and defining common interests. The two overarching topics of the...

Lesen Sie das Interview in DER STANDARD. Innovationen zur Lösung gesellschaftlicher Probleme sind weltweit gefragt. Der österreichische Staat habe das Thema lange Zeit verschlafen, sagt der Sozialwissenschafter...

Lesen Sie den ganzen Beitrag in der Online-Ausgabe von der  DER STANDARD. Die Zuwanderung in die Europäische Union geht nach OECD-Angaben zurück. Die Binnenmigration innerhalb der EU sei erstmals...

Read the complete article online... Looking East of an imaginary line going through Berlin and Rome all the way to the Urals creates a broad outline of what Eastern Europe is, in the widest geographical...

Last week ZSI was participating in the first CAAST-Net Plus Stakeholder Forum in Entebbe, Uganda. The meeting brought together 50 African and European stakeholders from academia and private sector to ...

Outstanding enterprises in the field of social innovation in the spotlight: Under the title "Need a boost towards social innovation?" creativ wirtschaft austria together with the EU-office of the Austrian...

Der Beitrag erschien in der Ausgabe 27/2014 von XING - Ein Kulturmagazin ISSN 2075-2539 Der Wunsch nach lebensnahen Fragestellungen, Methoden und Vermittlungsangeboten seitens Wissenschaft und Forschung...

  "Citizen Science-Projekte“ binden Bürger in die Forschung ein. Damit das möglichst gut funktioniert, legten europäische Wissenschaftler kürzlich ein Weißbuch mit Empfehlungen vor. ...

Am 16. November 2014 wurde ein Entschließungsantrag über Rahmenbedingungen für soziale Innovationen von den Grünen im Parlament eingebracht. Im Antrag ist zu lesen, dass „Soziale Innovationen […] ein...

SEA-EU-NET's Southeast Asia-related analytical activities on innovation systems, support schemes and framework conditions are increasingly visible: The analysis team was invited by InnovateUK 2014 session...

The ERA Portal Austria has released a video which describes the main services and features provided by the portal. From news to key documents, events and a helpdesk ...

In the framework of Work Package (WP) 3 “Tackling Societal Challenges: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy in a Bio-based Economy”, the Danube-INCO.NET project (which is coordinatored by Centre for...