Since six years the private foundation "Unruhe Privatstiftung" grants awards (total value 42,000 €) in ceremonies taking place always on May 1st at premises of the ORF (Austrian Radio and TV Broadcasting Corp.).This year the price has been re-named "award for social innovation", thus acknowledging and emphasising the overall acceptance of the concept of social innovation in the broad public. The winners...

Die mature@eu E-Learning-Plattform steht seit Jahresende 2009 in 16 Sprachen mit jeweils nationalspezifischen Daten zur Verfügung. Sie unterstützt PersonalistInnen auf dem Weg zu einer generationenübergreifenden Rekrutierungspolitik in der Praxis. Im Jahr 2009 wurde sie mit dem 'Keeping on Track - Best Practice Project Award' ausgezeichnet. Für die Koordination und Entwicklung zeichnet...

The Foresight study is an outcome of a dedicated workshop held in Bogor, Indonesia in May 2009. Combining two different Foresight methods, Scenario building and Backcasting, Southeast Asian and European policy makers were asked to identify drivers and shapers for future bi-regional cooperation which then were translated into long-term policy recommendations. This foresight study is authored by Alexander...

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We are happy to announce the current Call for Applications on 'External Evaluation of Community of Practice on Partnership in the ESF'. In order to assess the effectiveness and relevance of 'COP...

Social innovation: Mobilising resources and people was the title of a workshop in Brussels (25.-26. March, 2010). Invited by DG Enterprise and the EU project INNO GRIPS (Global Review of Innovation Intelligence and Policy Studies) were organisations engaged with social innovations(from science, businesses, foundations on to OECD), and European Commission establishments: Bureau of European Policy Advisers...

The Austrian Science and Reseach Liaison Office Sofia finished its activities at the end of March 2010! Established 1994 and headed since then by Klaus Schuch, Sigrid Berka, Reinhold Jawhari and from 2002 to 2010 by Martin Felix Gajdusek, the ASO Sofia has been a major instrument for research co-operation between Austria, Bulgaria and the Western Balkan Countries. The approaches to funding and co-...

The final reports an annexes on Transversal analysis on the evolution of skills needs in 19 economic sectors are now available online under ec.europa.eu. The publications were partly developed with ZSI contributions within the project Comprehensive Sectoral Analysis of Emerging Competences and Economic Activities in the European Union. They are also available on Anticipedia. In addition, the EC also...

Vierte ICD-Konferenz

South Eastern Europe is one of the most remarkable world regions for complexity and broad cultural diversity. The conferenced (on 11st & 12th of March 2010 in Sofia) brought together experts on ICD from...

Joint European Summer School on Technology Enhanced Learning 2010(www.JTELSummerSchool.eu) Ohrid, Macedonia, 7th – 11th June, 2010First Announcement and Call for Participation Deadline for applications: March 26, 2010 We are pleased to announce the 6th Joint European Summer School on Technology Enhanced Learning, to take place from Monday, 7th June 2010 to Friday 11th June 2010. Pre-summer school ...

ZSI wird heuer auf der von 4.-7. März stattfindenden Aus- und Weiterbildungsmesse BeSt vertreten sein und gemeinsam mit den KooperationspartnerInnen SORA und FORBA das Programm SOQUA 2010 präsentieren. SOQUA Plus Aufgrund großer Nachfrage bietet SOQUA – Sozialwissenschaftliche Berufsqualifizierung ab Herbst 2010 zusätzlich zum etablierten Lehrgang einzeln buchbare Seminare an. SOQUA Plus umfasst Qualifizierung...

Das ZSI - Zentrum für Soziale Innovation sucht für folgende Aufgaben Teilzeit-Unterstützung im Zeitraum von März/April 2010 bis 15.8.2010: Neukonzeptierung und Betreuung der wissenschaftlichen Bibliothek des ZSI Mitarbeit beim Wissensmanagementsystem Koordinierung und Betreuung der Adressdatenbank Gefordert ist pro-aktives Arbeiten mit hoher sozialer Kompetenz und Kontaktfreudigkeit rasche Auffassungsgabe...

The National Research Programme of the Republic of Kosovo has been approved by the National Research Council of Kosovo. It is open for public debate. Comments and suggestions should be sent by 15 March 2010 to the e-mail address kksh@ks-gov.net.The Research Programme was advised by Klaus Schuch from the Centre for Social Innovation...

In the frame of the KORANET Pilot Joint Call (PJC) on Research for Life-long Health researchers are invited to submit online proposals until 2 April 2010. The KORANET PJC aims to bring together European and Korean researchers and scientists to do joint research in the area of life-long health. It tries to approach the topic of life-long health from a multi- and interdisciplinary point of view...

Das Thema „Evidenzbasierte Politikgestaltung und Sozialfolgenabschätzung“ steht im Mittelpunkt der ersten SOQUA Summer School, die vom 19. bis zum 30. Juli 2010 in Wien stattfinden wird. Sie besteht aus einer Seminarwoche, drei Workshop-Tagen und einem anschließenden Symposium. Es werden zahlreiche internationale ExpertInnen sowie AkteurInnen aus relevanten Praxisfeldern erwartet. Frühbucher-Rabatt...

Ausschreibung für multilaterale Forschungsnetzwerke zwischen Indien und Europa im Bereich Biotechnologie und Gesundheit Das ERA-NET New INDIGO hat am 11. Jänner 2010 eine Ausschreibung zur Unterstützung der multilateralen Forschungskooperation zwischen Indien und Europa veröffentlicht. Gefördert wird vor allem Mobilität und Workshops. Teams sind eingeladen sich für gemeinsame Projekte in folgenden...

Publikation einer vom ZSI im Rahmen des SEA-EU-NET Projektes durchgeführten Mapping-Studie Die Basis für Forschungskooperationen sind Kontakte, Netzwerke von ForscherInnen, die ein gemeinsames Vorbereiten und Arbeiten an Projekten oder Ko-Publikationen ermöglichen. Gerade im außereuropäischen Bereich reichen die üblichen disziplinären Foren, wie etwa Fachtagungen, nicht aus, um die richtigen Partner...

Am 11. und 12. November fand in Bogor, Indonesien, die zweite Stakeholder Konferenz des Südostasien-INCO-NETs (SEA-EU-NET) statt. Thematisch stand aufgrund der Brisanz des Themas in beiden Regionen sowie nicht zuletzt wegen der zeitlichen Nähe zum Kopenhagen-Gipfel der Klimawandel im Zentrum.Bevor in unterschiedlichen Panels die Forschungsbereiche Nahrungsmittelsicherheit, Gesundheit und Biotreibstoffe...

Das bi-regionale S&T Netzwerkprojekt mit Indien (ERA-NET New INDIGO), an dem auch das ZSI maßgeblich beteiligt ist, war eines jener 4 EU-Projekte, die gemeinsam Anfang November am Campus der Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi die „EU-India S&T Cooperation Days“ veranstalteten. Ziel dieser Kooperationstage war es indische und europäische Forscherinnen und Forscher aus den Bereichen Food...

Das österreichische Verbindungsbüro für Wissenschaft und Forschung Ljubljana (ASO Ljubljana) schreibt, in Kooperation mit dem Zentrum für Soziale Innovation (ZSI) in Wien, neuerlich einen „Call for Proposals“ für Projekte zur Forschungskooperation, Anbahnung und Netzwerkbildung zwischen Österreich, Slowenien und den Westbalkanländern (Albanien, Bosnien-Herzegowina, Kosovo under UNSCR 1244/1999, Kroatien...

As a result of a lively and very stimulating public discussion among a high-level panel discussion, involving a no less interested and educated audience, ZSI established a new opportunity to continue and elaborate the public debate on social innovation topics:http://socialinnovations.zsi.at Sincere invitation to blog! Comments, statements, critique and references are very welcome in English as well...

The ZSI is pleased to invite you to join remotely the GLOBAL event of the 5th BELIEF Symposium in conjunction with the CHPC national meeting 2009, which will be made available online for your participation from Monday 07 December to Tuesday 08 December 2009. The event will be an excellent opportunity to get insight into developments of cyberinfrastructure through a selection of successful research...

This all-day workshop‘s objective was to investigate possible structural improvements in the dialogue between political decision makers and researchers. 25 representatives of our target groups followed the ZSI’s invitation and took part in the meeting. • Generally, the problem is not a lack of research but the question of ‘receiving’ its results: Due to their enormous amount, it is impossible to ...

The KORANET project (www.koranet.eu) is organising a scientific workshop in Korea in February 2010. This event will coincide with the publication of Koranet PJC (Pilot Joint Call). It will be the occasion to create new partnerships and reinforce existing ones with the aim of building strong consortia for projects submission. The theme for KORANET Pilot Joint Call will be "Research for life-long health...

The ZSI Newsletter of November 2009 is available here for download (in German, yet some parts are written in English).

What we offer:* Very good working atmosphere in a project team.* Collaboration in three interesting, future-orientated EU projects on bi-regional S&T cooperation EU – 3rd countries (General and South/ Southeast Asia; pls. see for more information: http://www.inco-connect.eu , http://www.sea-eu.net and http://www.new-indigo.eu* Project visits to the region* Employment of 30-40 h/week, starting January...

The most needed social innovations of the 21st century Panel discussion Venue: University of ViennaDr.-Karl-Lueger-Ring 1, ViennaTime: Monday, November 30th, 6 p.m. – 8. p.m. Welcome address:Rudolf Richter, Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Viennahttp://www.univie.ac.at/?L=2 Moderator:Sabine Herlitschka, Director of European and International Programmes, Austrian Research Promotion...

Registration for 6th 'OECD LEED Forum' Meeting

Registration for '6th Annual OECD LEED Forum on Partnerships and Local Governance' meeting is now open! FROM RECESSION TO RECOVERY: Local Partnerships to Rebuild Employment 16 - 17 February...

White Paper distributed

In August 2007 the “White Paper on overlaps, gaps and opportunities in view of the extension of bilateral RTD programmes and initiatives towards multilateral approaches” and its accompanying Joint Action...

Das Projekt NANOYOU hat zum Ziel, ein umfangreiches Kommunikations- und Outreach-Programm speziell für Jugendliche zu entwickeln. Als Vorstudie führt das ZSI zurzeit eine Umfrage durch.Jugendliche im Alter von 11 bis 25 Jahren werden online befragt, was sie über Nanotechnologien wissen. Sie können ihre Meinung und ihre Einstellung gegenüber Nanotechnologien angeben und ihre Erwartungen oder Befürchtungen...

KORANET, a four-year project financed by the 7th Framework Programme on Research and Development of the EU, organises a one-day workshop on GREEN ICT in Istanbul on 20 October 2009.The event targets researchers, programme managers/owners, policy makers, clusters, companies and other interested stakeholders. At the end of the workshop a networking reception is planned together with the participants...

Fostering an increased successful participation

The training workshops are jointly organised by WINS-ICT and the ICT-WEB-PROMS projects and are free of charge. The objective is to foster an increased successful participation of the local ICT researchers...

Country fact-sheets 'forumpartnerships2009'

The country fact-sheets 'forumpartnerships2009' of the OECD LEED Forum on Partnerships and Local Governance are published and ready for download. The publication presents 35 different area-based...

Available in English and in German. Please visit regularly the project website http://www.gemmaproject.eu

Eine Online-Umfrage für 11-25jährige zum Thema Nanotechnologien, die im Rahmen des NANOYOU-Projektes stattfindet, ist jetzt online!Der Fragebogen ist in zwei Altersgruppen aufgeteilt und in acht Sprachen aufrufbar. Vor allem für die jüngere Gruppe ist der Fragebogen auch zum Ausfüllen im Unterricht geeignet.Untersuchungszeitraum: 1. Oktober 2009 - 31. Oktober 2009Zugang: www.nanoyou.eu/survey

Event Bericht

For two weeks in August forty-one young researchers from fourteen countries from Europe and Latin America participated in the EULAKS Summer School on “the Role of the Social Sciences in the Construction...

As a continuation of the successful cooperation within the SEE-ERA.NET project, a Joint Call for European Research Projects will be published on September 1, 2009 within the SEE-ERA.NET PLUS project. We would hereby like to inform you that a Joint Call for European Research Projects is launched on September 1, 2009 as part of the SEE-ERA.NET PLUS project. The participating countries are: Western Balkan...

The project "Capacity Building and Institutional Strengthening of Science and Research in Bosnia and Herzegovina" starts September 1, 2009. It is lead by Technopolis Consulting Group from Belgium and further partners in the project are LOGOTECH and European Profiles.The project aims at a strategic assessment of the current RTDI system, coordination and governing structures, organisational design of...

Im attachment finden Sie den Vortrag von Dr. Klaus Schuch zur Internationalisierung Österreichs im Bereich F&E. Aufgrund einer kurzfristigen Erkrankung konnte Dr. Schuch nicht im Arbeitskreis "Internationales" anwesend sein. Der beiliegende Vortrag wurde dort verlesen und ausgedruckt.

Update of Joint Action PlanIn August 2007 the “White Paper on overlaps, gaps and opportunities in view of the extension of bilateral RTD programmes and initiatives towards multilateral approaches” and its accompanying Joint Action Plan were finalised as a deliverable of SEE-ERA.NET. Since then the White Paper has been widely distributed. Some of the proposed actions of the Joint Action Plan already...

On 17 August 2009 the Summer School on “The Role of Social Science in the Construction of Knowledge-based societies: Latin American and European Perspectives” starts. It lasts 2 weeks and has been organised under the FP7 project "EULAKS" by Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), Centre for Social Innovation (ZSI, Austria) and the other partners of the consortium. The main topics...

WINS-ICT “Western Balkan Countries Inco-Net Support in the field of ICT” is an initiative funded by the EC 7th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development under the ICT theme of the Cooperation Programme. The project intends to strengthen S&T cooperation between the EU and the Western Balkan countries by deepening the bi-regional strategic relations in the ICT field and promoting...

Das Zentrum für Soziale Innovation (ZSI) sucht Assistent/In des Vorstands für Kommunikationsmanagement und Organisation Wir streben eine Verbesserung interner Abläufe und Intensivierung externer Kommunikation (Pressearbeit, Public Relations, Lobbying etc.) an. Von zentraler Bedeutung sowohl für die einzelnen Projekte des ZSI als auch für das gesamte Institut ist die Verbreitung von Ergebnissen unserer...

FORESIGHT is a scientific journal published by the High School of Economics (Moscow) in Russian language.In the Editorial Board are Ian Miles (Manchester Institute of Innovation Research), Michael Keenan (OECD), Laurent Bach (University Strasbourg), Klaus Schuch (ZSI), Mario Cervantes (OECD), Glenn Schweitzer (National Academy of Sciences, USA), Ricardo Seidl da Fonseca (UNIDO), Mikhail Kovaltchuk...

Wir wollen unser Profil komplettieren durch verstärkte Forschung in den folgenden Schwerpunkten: Chancengleichheit am Arbeitsmarkt, Armutsbekämpfung, Internationale Mobilität, sozialer Dialog und Integration, alternde Gesellschaft, Governance gesellschaftlicher und technologischer Entwicklungen. Wir bieten eine verantwortungsvolle Herausforderung mit breit gefächerten Aufgabengebieten, ein...

SEA-EU-NET is pleased to announce its second stakeholder conference will take place on 11 and 12 November in the IPB International Convention Centre in Bogor, Indonesia. The Stakeholder conference will bring together policymakers and researchers from Europe and South East Asia to further strengthen bi-regional science and technology co-operation. SEA-EU-NET is now well into its 2nd year and is moving...

The proceedings of the workshop on "Research Priority Setting for International Cooperation" have been recently published by the European Commission. The workshop was held in Brussels on 25-26 September 2007.It contains contributions from Ken Guy (Wise Guys), Klaus Schuch (ZSI), Göran Marklund (Innova), Bernhard Dachs (ARC), Yuko Harayama (Tohoku University), Habiba Hassan-Wassef (Cairo University...

Right from the printing house: Loudin, J. and Schuch, K. (2009): Innovation Cultures: Challenge and Learning Strategy. Filosofia: Prague The book contains 16 social scientific contributions, e.g. Josef Hochgerner (ZSI) ("Innovation Processes in the Dynamics of Social Change", Karel Müller ("Institutional Changes of National Innovation Systems: an Indicator of Innovation Culture"), Henry Etzkowitz ("...

SEA-EU-NET is a project that aims to link the research communities in Europe and Southeast Asia. As there is already a lot of online information on the European Research Landscape, we focus at our project website on providing interesting facts and news on Southeast Asia. In order to step-up our efforts we are pleased to announce the relaunch of the SEA-EU-NET website (www.sea-eu.net) with a range ...

The Centre for Social Innovation (ZSI), Vienna, Austria is looking for a FP6/FP7 Project-Administrator to support the coordination of projects under the EU RTD Framework Programme We are a private non-profit social-scientific research institute in Vienna with 50+ employees. We are looking for an experienced project administrator to support our project management. ZSI coordinates several projects in...

The booklet "Scientific results of the SEE-ERA.NET Pilot Joint Call" is published and ready for download. It consists of 27 individual scientific reports on the research and networking projects as well as summer schools funded by the SEE-ERA.NET Pilot Joint Call along with a general overview on the project and a foreword by the European Commissioner for Science and Research, Janez Potočnik. For...