Projects

With our research projects we want to enable conscious socio-ecological changes. We are concerned with processes of social transformation. By this we understand a qualitative change of systems and structures. Socio-ecological transformations include action, thinking and emotional understanding. To this end, we conduct transdisciplinary sustainability research at regional, national and international level. We work closely with partners in practice, civil society, administration and politics. We create knowledge about processes regarding social action. This way we promote and facilitate transformative changes.

We understand science as an activity: as direct intervention in practice and indirect support for practice by generating transformational knowledge. With our action research we use different social science methods to stimulate processes of change. Thus, we explore values, reflect on subjective perceptions, analyse structures and plan future courses of action together with actors from practice. This leads to new questions and areas of application. Thereby, we engage in different ways of collective learning and influence change.

• UniNEtZ
  SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
  Duration: 01/2019 - 10/2025
• TICS
  Urban Platform Economies: Transformations of labour and intersectional inequalities in care services
  Duration: 10/2022 - 09/2025
• EAT+CHANGE
  Duration: 10/2022 - 09/2025
• FEAST
  Food systems that support transitions to healthy and sustainable diets
  Duration: 07/2022 - 06/2027
• The Governance of Edible Cities
  Duration: 03/2021 - 06/2023
• CoopsForFood
  Diverse Economies of Sustainable Food
  Duration: 02/2021 - 07/2023
• ECO-TANDEM
  Duration: 072020 - 07/2023
• Making Green Inclusive
  Ecosystem Services, Health impact Assessment and Participative Scenarios
  Duration: 11/2020 - 06/2023
• SMASH
  Smart Sharing Graz
  Duration: 04/2020 - 03/2023

• S'ReVit
  Smart Revitalisation
  Duration: 07/2019 - 06/2022
• City of Collaboration
  Duration: 01/2020 - 12/2020
• HICS
  Duration: 10/2020 - 07/2021
• Smart Share & Care
  Duration: 03/2020 - 06/2021
• Relationale Geographien der Ernährung
  Duration: 08/2017 - 09/2020
• SmarterLabs
  Improving Anticipation and Social Inclusion in Living Labs for Smart City Governance
  Duration: 03/2016 - 03/2019
• URB@Exp
  Towards new forms of urban governance and city development: learning from urban experiments with living labs & city labs
  Duration: 09/2014 - 08/2017
• ConSus
  Connecting Science-Society Collaborations for Sustainability Innovations
  Duration: 12/2013 - 11/2016
• UE4SD
  University Educators for Sustainable Development
  Duration: 10/2013 - 10/2016
• OPEDUCA
  Developing OPen EDUCAtional regions for future-oriented learning and teaching Anytime, Anyplace, with Anybody, through Any device
  Duration: 10/2013 - 05/2016
• Facebook
  Monitoring von Nachhaltigkeitskommunikation unter Einbeziehung der Case Studies „OpenScience4Sustainability“ und „Facebook“
  Duration: 02/2014 - 01/2015
• Scaling Sustainability
  Scaling Sustainability in Regional and Global Contexts - the Role of Higher Education
  Duration: 10/2013 - 04/2014
• SMGBE
  Strategic Management Games - Innovative method for business education
  Duration: 01/2012 - 01/2014
• Naturpark-Biowein-Qualität-Südsteiermark
  Creating a brand in a region
  Duration: 01/2013 - 12/2013
• EduCamp
  Education for Sustainable Development beyond the Campus
  Duration: 10/2010 - 10/2013
• SUSTAINICUM
  Educational Material for Sustainability
  Duration: 01/2012 - 06/2013
• ICTeESD
  ICT-enabled Education for Sustainable Development
  Duration: 10/2010 - 10/2012
• E-Mobility
  E-Mobility in Styria
  Duration: 01/2011 - 09/2011
• 3-LENSUS
  Lifelong Learning Network for Sustainable Development
  Duration: 01/2009 - 12/2010
• VCSE
  Virtual Campus for a Sustainable Europe
  Duration: 02/2007 - 01/2009
• Sustainability Trail
  Duration: 09/2007 - 04/2008