Zentrum für Soziale Innovation (ZSI)

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Zentrum für Soziale Innovation (ZSI)

Zentrum für Soziale Innovation (ZSI)

Institution
The Zentrum for Soziale Innovation (Centre for Social Innovation), short ZSI, is a trans-disciplinary, non-for-profit, social science research institute. It's headquarter is located in Vienna, Austria and employs around 60 people, most of them researchers from different disciplinary backgrounds. ZSI offers analyses and concepts for promoting and implementing social innovation in its thematically focused areas from a transdisciplinary perspective. 

Research expertise
The Zentrum for Soziale Innovation (Centre for Social Innovation), short ZSI, is a trans-disciplinary, non-for-profit, social science research institute. It's headquarter is located in Vienna, Austria and employs around 60 people, most of them researchers from different disciplinary backgrounds. ZSI offers analyses and concepts for promoting and implementing social innovation in its thematically focused areas from a transdisciplinary perspective. 

Role in REINFORCE
ZSI’s main responsibility in REINFORCE is the impact assessment (WP9), where we will analyse the outputs, the outcomes and the impact of the project. We will for instance analyse the benefits for the participating citizen scientists as well as the researchers working in the different demonstrator projects and the society on the long-term. We bring in our experience in citizen science projects and the evaluative framework that we have developed in previous projects that allows also for comparisons between different kinds of citizen science projects. We further bring in our expertise in Responsible Research and Innovation and working according to its principles.


Team


Senior researcher
Elisabeth Unterfrauner

Elisabeth Unterfrauner

WP9 member
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Elisabeth Unterfrauner holds a master’s degree in Psychology and a postgradual degree in Clinical Psychology and Health Psychology. Furthermore, she gained her PhD in interdisciplinary fields of Pedagogy and Social Sciences with a PhD thesis on “mobile learning”. Elisabeth works as senior researcher at the Centre for Social Innovation in the Department of Technology and Knowledge. Furthermore, she is a member of the Ethics Committee.

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Project Manager & Researcher
Claudia Magdalena Fabian

Claudia Magdalena Fabian

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Claudia Magdalena Fabian has more than 15 years of experience in international and national project management at the Centre for Social Innovation. She gained her PhD in interdisciplinary fields of Pedagogy and Social Sciences with a thesis on "community learning". She focuses her research on the design and evaluation of new systems and technologies, especially for collaborative learning and qualitative research methods.

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The 30-months project NGIatlantic.eu will push the Next Generation Internet a step further by providing cascade funding to EU-based researchers and innovators in carrying out Next Generation Internet related experiments in collaboration with US research teams.




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