The Zentrum für Soziale Innovation (ZSI) is a scientific institute with extensive experience in the field of social innovation research and applied science. ZSI works in science and praxis, linking systematic research with application. Many of ZSI’s projects transcend scientific domains and are interdisciplinary. Acting as a social-profit organisation, ZSI conducts research on the social embedding of all manner of innovation, and contributes to the designing of innovative processes and social change.
ZSI is an independent institution, acting globally by deployment of innovative research, education, advisory services and co-ordination of networks, to:
- Support socially appreciated forms of innovations
- Develop, research and disseminate social innovations
- Analyse, promote and evaluate scientific collaboration
- Strengthen an open and solidly united society
- Help to implement the visionary prospect of a better world
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Role in project:
Pilot evaluation (WP7):
- Evaluation pre-requisites and methodology
- Analysis & assessment of the intervention: statistic & qualitative data
- Evaluation report
Social policy structural reforms (WP9):
- Identification of potential application areas
- Workshop on sustainability and EU structural funds
- Selection of scaling options
- Upscaling roadmaps
- Report: scaling processes, transformation per domain and actions to be taken by Member States