Section: Research Policy & Development

Function: Research Associate

Contact:

• Email: fetting@zsi.at

Work and research focus:

Constanze Fetting studied Socio-ecological economics and policy at the University of Economics and Business (WU) in Vienna and Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick in the UK. Before becoming a research associate at ZSI, she worked as a research fellow at the WU Vienna, focusing on Sustainable Development and Governance as well as sustainable mineral value chains. Throughout her studies she gained work experience at the German- French Chamber of Commerce in Paris and the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation in Beirut.

Her research focus at ZSI includes:

• Energy transition
• Climate mitigation and adaptation
• Social innovation
• Societal transformation

Running and completed projects:

• MountResilience (2023)
• SIAMESE - Social innovation for climate change adaptation & mitigation (2021)
• RIPEET - Responsible research and Innovation Policy Experimentations for Energy Transition (2021)
• PRO-Ethics - Participatory Real Life Experiments in Research and Innovation Funding Organisations on Ethics (2020)
• Cherries - Constructing Healthcare Environments through Responsible Research Innovation and Entrepreneurship Strategies (2020)

Education and career:

July 2022 now    - Researcher at ZSI

2019 - 2022       - Research Assistant Vienna University of Economics and Business

2018 - 2020       - MSc Socioecological economics and policy at Vienna University of Economics and Business

2013 - 2016       - BA Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick