On behalf of the "Higher KOS" consortium, Centre for Social Innovation is launching a call for tender for an external evaluation of the project "Higher KOS - Promoting Institutional Development in Higher...

ZSI’s topical area Research Policy & Development (F&E) is currently working in over 20 international projects: why this focus on international research cooperation? F&E is the largest area...

New models of cooperation make the world (of sience & research) increasingly move together and contribute on a postive development... “Science has always been an international endeavor. The pursuit...

Budva (Montenegro) turned out to be a perfect location for the recent 14th meeting of the Steering Platform on Research for the Western Balkan Countries. The event was held on 5-6 June 2013 and was...

Two internal working meetings were recently held in Budva, Montenegro by WBC-INCO.NET back to back to the 14th Steering Platform on Research for Western Balkans. The ...

Issues covered by the eNewsletter Covenant CapaCITY Training Platform now provides guidance on 2nd generation SEAPs and offers country versions New journey planner outlines quickest and safest...

FORSEE has just published its seventh newsletter. Click here to find out more what phase of the ICT Foresight Methodology the project is currently in and what participatory activities they have in store...

This final KORANET publication is prepared for S&T stakeholders in Europe and Korea, including researchers, research institutions and funding agencies, policy makers at national and international...

Mit dem Ziel, multilaterale Wissenschaftskooperation zwischen Indien und Europa im Bereich Energieforschung zu fördern, hat das ERA.Net Projekt New INDIGO dieses Jahr zum vierten Mal eine gemeinsame Ausschreibung...

DANCERS focuses on the the capacity building and Excellence in River Systems research and management (basin, delta and sea). The kick off meeting took place in the mid of June 2013 in Bucharest. The DANube...

Das ZSI hat als koordinierende Institution die Verhandlungen über ein neues Projekt zur Verbindung von Forschung und Innovation im Energiebereich mit der Europäischen Kommission erfolgreich abgeschlossen...

Im Rahmen des ERA-NET Projektes mit Russland (ERA.Net RUS) hat das ZSI vier thematische 'foresight workshops' veranstaltet. Mit Hilfe der foresight Methode roadmapping wurden relevante Themen für die ...

"Jugendliche sind heute wachsenden Herausforderungen ausgesetzt. Jugendcoaching schafft daher verbesserte Perspektiven für ausgrenzungsgefährdete Jugendliche am Arbeitsmarkt und stellt eine präventive...

The consortium members of the EC-funded FP7 project Inco.Net CA/SC in which ZSI is participating as analytical project partner were invited by the Ministry of Industry and New Technologies and the National...

Insgesamt 19.000 €  für soziale Innovationen im Bereich aktives und gesundes Altern stehen als Preisgelder zur Verfügung: Die König-Baudouin-Stiftung präsentiert in Zusammenarbeit mit der La Caixa...

Topics like climate change as well as innovative forms of research such as citizien science projects for sustainable solutions have become change making and leading the way for our society. The growing...

by Jo Hochgerner   '14. Österreichischer Klimatag': University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (Universität für Bodenkultur), 4 th - 5th of  April 2013   The conference...

As part of the European Commission’s Enterprise & Industry Mission for Growth strategy, a Europe-wide learning network for workplace innovation has been launched with the specific objective of ...

The new European Union-Latin America & Caribbean (EU-LAC) INCO-NET project held its official Kick-off meeting in Brussels on April 17-18. ZSI is one of the 19 partner institutions of this bi-regional...

The EVAL-INNO project organises the third RTDI evaluation training course on 17-21 June 2013 in Podgorica, Montenegro. The training will gather participants from Montenegro, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina...

A comparative report on "Overview of International Science, Technology and Innovation cooperation between Member States and countries outside the EU and the development of a future monitoring mechanism...

Wie jedes Jahr wurden am 1. Mai auch heuer wieder die SozialMarie Preise im Wiener RadioKulturHaus verliehen. Eine Neuerung gegenüber früher war die nun erstmalige Vollbeteiligung der Tschechischen...

The topic Ageing Society as well as trends of Migration and Remigration have become leading the way for our society.... ‘Learning in later life often sees a paradigm shift away from academic attainment...

‘Creating greater solidarity between able and disabled people, between the old and the young, between women and men, between regions, and between thosewho are wealthy and those who are less lucky in life...

On 8th and 9th of April 2013 ZSI organised the MiStra-matching seminar in Vienna. According to their specific needs, the target cities chose good practice models to be transferred to their city. During...

The training workshop “Improving S&T indicators in Central Asia” is a continuation of the first successful workshop on S&T indicators organized in Almaty, Kazakhstan in April 2011. The workshop...

Evaluations are booming and there is a remarkable increase of literature on the subject. In this SOQUA seminar participants will acquire the relevant expertise to plan, estimate costs, and carry out...

Die Kommission für Entwicklungsforschung (KEF) hat aus Mitteln des Bundesministeriums für Wissenschaft und Forschung (BMWF) den „Österreichischen Preis für Entwicklungsforschung“ ausgeschrieben. Er besteht...

Ein Gespräch, moderiert von Gerald Bast (Rektor Angewandte), mit Anton Falkeis (künstlerischer Leiter des Studiengangs Social Design, Angewandte) und Josef Hochgerner (Wissenschaftlicher Leiter...

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? (Some lines of the poem ‘The Rock’ by T.S Elliot...

Das Projekt CE-Ageing Platform (Central European Knowledge Platform for an Ageing Society) lädt Bürgerinnen und Bürger zur gemeinsamen Entwicklung einer Strategie zum demografischen Wandel für Zentraleuropa...

The 6th FORSEE newsletter is out! Apart from an interview with one of the members of the expert team responsible for the FORSEE foresight methodology, Mr. Ulrich Bös, the current newsletter informs...

Denmark experienced a far-reaching reform of the public research sector with the consequence of strengthening the large universities. Lauritz B. Nielsen, rector of the University Aarhus, will present...

Am 14. und 15. November 2013 findet in Wien eine große internationale Evaluierungskonferenz statt, die sich mit neuen Herausforderungen für zeitgemäße und wirkungsvolle FTI-Evaluierungen beschäftigt, ...

With an aim to publish the “CE-Ageing Strategy” as a white paper by the end of 2013, an intensive public consultation process on the “GREEN PAPER CE-AGEING STRATEGY” has started on March 1, 2013 and will...

One of the core activities of the three-year project “Central European Knowledge Platform for an Ageing Society” (short: “CE-Ageing Platform”), co-funded by the CENTRAL EUROPE Programme, is the development...

The EVAL-INNO project organises the second RTDI evaluation training course on 15-19 April 2013 in Budapest, Hungary. The training will gather participants from The Ukraine, Slovakia, Austria and Hungary...

Das Projekt Age – Work – Balance: Ausgewogene Ansätze für eine alternde Erwerbsbevölkerung in Ballungsräumen untersuchte Maßnahmen, Programme und Projekte, die auf die Integration von älteren Menschen...

We discussed with over 50 participants from 8 European Countries the significance of the relationship between the network structure (between different public and private actors on different levels...

„Sozial innovative Konzepte zur Stadtentwicklung umfassen intelligente Netze, genauso wie energiesparende Gebäude und umweltfreundliche Mobilität. Entwurfsweisen des Social Design stellen ein wirksames...

The competition (please see the link also below the text) was open for brilliant project ideas from Ukrainian research teams who aim to submit the proposal for the FP7 ICT Call closing in April. ...

As we received many requests, the Danube University Krems prepared a compact webinar on the worldwide first Master of Arts in Social in Innovation. The master course is going to start  in April 2013...

Almost 40 scholars from Kosovo participated in the first of three ESSIe training weeks held at the University of Prishtina (UP). Almost half of the participants were from the UP, a few participants...

The EVAL-INNO project (Fostering Evaluation Competencies in Research, Technology and Innovation in the SEE Region) will organise the first RTDI evaluation training course on 18-22 March 2013 in Sofia, ...

Es ist uns ein großes Vergnügen Sie zu unserer Abschlusskonferenz für das Projekt “Age – Work – Balance: Balanced approaches for an ageing workforce in metropolitan areas” einzuladen. Die Konferenz...

The goal of the Joint Call is to create long-term research collaboration between EU Member States and/or Associated Countries and Africa. Research collaboration of a high standard between teams from EU...

The Smart City concept is important throughout Europe and across the world, thus it is a topic in international discourse. However, this short article primarily deals with matters of local developments...

The Territorial Employment Pacts (Teps) have been implemented since 1997 in all nine Austrian Provinces: The Strategic Report Austria 2012 of the Austrian Conference on Spatial Planning - ÖROK cited...

SEE countries have limited record of innovation evaluation practices. The merits as well as the need for procuring evaluation emerged with the EU Structural Funds and IPA (Instrument for Pre-Accession...

With the results of 8 National Open Consultations events available, the FORSEE project has conducted the Regional Open Consultation event in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in January 2013. The event has attracted...