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.
Ongoing projects
- 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
Finished projects
- 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