Section: Research Policy & Development

Function: Project manager and Researcher

Contact:

• Phone: ++43-1-495 04 42 / 18
• Fax: ++43-1-495 04 42 / 40
• Email: haider@zsi.at

Publications:

• Social innovation for regional energy transition? An agency perspective on transformative change in non-core regions (2022)
• Revisiting bi-regional relations: the EU-Latin American dialogue and diversification of interregional cooperation (2020)
• Planning::Innovation (2019)
• Service markets, service labour markets and company strategies in Europe. The research report. (2018)
• Research Trajectories on Social Issues in the EU, (CE)LAC and beyond. How the social dimension of the EU and (CE)LAC frame EU-(CE)LAC social relations (2018)
• Shaping industrial relations in a digitalising services industry: regional report for Continental Europe (2018)
• Compilation of in-depth case study reports (2017)
• Top-10 research priorities for sustainable futures - Insights from and for Austria. Policy brief (2016) (Primary Author)

Work and research focus:

Social Innovation, Regional Innovation, Regional Development, Transformative Innovation Policy, Policy experimentation, Development Cooperation, SDGs, Political Communication, Policy Analysis, Latin American Studies

Running and completed projects:

• CRETE VALLEY - CRETE VALLEY: A new project to pioneer the first renewable energy valley in Europe (2023, project leader)
• Evaluation of the European Framework Programmes for Research and Innovation: Global Challenges and Industrial Competitiveness related to the Green Transition (2021)
• SIAMESE - Social innovation for climate change adaptation & mitigation (2021, project leader)
• RIPEET - Responsible research and Innovation Policy Experimentations for Energy Transition (2021, project leader)
• Innovation for a Better World (2020)
• Frugal Inno - Frugal Innovation (2020, project leader)
• CERUSI - Central European Rural Social Innovation (2020, project leader)
• Cherries - Constructing Healthcare Environments through Responsible Research Innovation and Entrepreneurship Strategies (2020)
• Danube Chance 2.0 - Embracing failure to facilitate second-chance entrepreneurship in the Danube region (2018)
• LIVERUR - Living Lab research concept in Rural Areas (2018, project leader)
• PLAISIR - Planning Innovation: learning from socially innovative energy projects (2017)
• SIRDIG - Shaping Industrial Relations in a Digitalising Services Industry (2017)
• RaiSE - Enhancing social enterprises competitiveness through improved business support policies (2017)
• BildungsVielfalt – BildungsChance II (2016)
• EULAC Focus - Giving focus to the cultural, scientific and social dimension of EU-CELAC relations (2016)
• PLOTINA - Promoting gender balance and inclusion in research, innovation, and training (2016)
• RI-LINKS2UA - Strengthening Research and Innovation Links towards Ukraine (2016)
• CASI - Public participation in developing a common framework for assessment and management of sustainable innovation (2014)
• SI-Drive (2014)
• LIST - Leveraging the Digital & ICT Competences of senior women to extenuate the knowledge divide (2013)
• INDIGO POLICY (2013)
• ALCUE NET (2012)

Other Publications:

Haider, Wolfgang (2015): Morden unter dem Deckmantel der Medizin: NS-"Euthanasie" in Kärnten/Koroška und dem Gailtal/Ziljska dolina. In: Gitschtaler, Bernhard (Hrsg.): Ausgelöschte Namen - Die Opfer des Nationalsozialismus im und aus dem Gailtal. Salzburg: Otto-Müller Verlag.

Education and career:

since 2015: Research associate at the ZSI, Department T&W and A&C

2013 - 2016: Master in International Development, University of Vienna

2009 - 2013: BA International Development, BA Political Science, University of Vienna

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