The “Zentrum für Soziale Innovation” (ZSI) (Centre for Social Innovation) is a social-scientific research institute, founded as a registered non-for profit association in 1990. Its headquarter is located in Vienna, Austria. It employs around 40 persons, most of them researchers from different disciplinary background working mainly in inter-disciplinary research fields and projects.

On behalf of the Austrian Ministry of Science and Research, the ZSI acts in way of a resource agency by co-ordinating the ‘Austrian Science and Research Liaison Offices’ in Brno (CzechRepublic), Ljubljana (Slovenia) and Sofia (Bulgaria).

Operations of the ZSI are organised along 3 departments:

‘Research Policy and Development’

The unit for ‘Research Policy and Development’ works in several nationally and internationally funded projects. Its core competencies comprise social-scientific S&T policy studies, patterns of techno-globalisation, international management of S&T, RTDI evaluation, etc. Thematically relevant network projects funded under FP6 include ‘LAC-ACCESS (Connecting High-Quality Research between the European Union and Latin American and Caribbean Countries)’, the ‘Information Office of the Steering Platform on Research for Western Balkan countries’, the ‘Southeast European Era-Net (SEE-ERA.NET)’, etc..

Projects with a research focus on S&T policy include "Recognising Central and Eastern European Centres of RTD: Perspectives for the European Research Area (ERA) – RECORD ", "Priorities in Research and Development in Southeast Europe" and "Counselling for the Austrian Ministry for Foreign Affairs regarding projects in the field of education under the Official Development Assistance - ODA" and " PRO-ACT: Practical Regional Innovation Policy in Action".

• ‘Work and Equal Opportunities’,
  
• ‘Technology and Knowledge’ and
  
• ‘Research Policy and Development’.

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Contact 

Mr. Florian Gruber

Project Manager

Tel: +43/1/4950 442 56

Fax: +43/1/49 50 442 40

Email: gruber@zsi.at

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