The Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft is funding UpdateSocial as a scientific project (The Future We Want!).

Initiated by the Sustainable Transformation Management Lab and Volkshilfe Upper Austria, "The Future We Want" aims to create new solutions and address the countless social challenges society faces. As the challenges become increasingly complex, we urgently call for greater collaboration and a stronger dialog across individual sectors. UpdateSocial intends to support the social innovation ecosystem in Upper Austria and build a stronger community that is ready to embrace transformation. People in all areas of our society have either already come up with an idea to tackle a particular challenge, or are looking to create new solutions. As such, the initiative will serve as a cornerstone for a growing organic movement to drive the digital and sustainable transformation in the social services sector forward, particularly in areas including providing home care to aging relatives, an inclusive society, and social climate protection. The goal is to pool civil society's abundance of ideas with charitable organizations, the private sector, and public administration and get all of these sectors to work together and create an innovative momentum that includes everyone. The most important foundation is to form alliances in order to continue working on feasible solutions based on these alliances. Potential ideas will receive support and be scaled up. The project's main focus in 2023 involved the Ideas Workshop (April 2023) and a support program spanning several months. Following the project's success and using other formats, the program is set to continue in 2024 and thereafter.

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The study will analyze the economic requirements and impact of mobility transition within the Austrian rail sector and automotive supply industries, focusing particularly on employment effects resulting from this transition. By combining expert interviews and economic input-output analyses, we will examine how existing strengths in the Austrian transportation industry can be expanded on and made more sustainable in order to meet mobility transition challenges, while also creating employment.
The study's findings will contribute to the debate regarding how to structure a future-oriented and sustainable mobility strategy in Austria.

Project Information

Funded by the Vienna Chamber of Labour, opens an external URL in a new window, the project is a joint initiative between the ICAE and LIFT_C.

Project Management

Stephan Pühringer
Lukas Cserjan
Anna Hornykewycz

Project Team

Matthias Aistleitner
Laura Porak
Julia Eder

Project Duration

2024-2025