Our current projects

Elisabeth List Fellowship Programme
Project manager: Sabine Klinger (Learning Environment Research Department)
Duration: 2025–2027

AIMS – Al-based Mentoring for Women in STEAM Studies
Project manager: Rudolf Egger (Learning Environment Research Department)
Funding body: European Commission
Duration: 2025 - 2028

Empowering adult education providers to establish themselves as educational hubs in rural areas and build mutually beneficial connections to communities
Project management: Assinger Philipp (Department of Adult and Continuing Education)
Funding body: European Commission
Duration: 2025 - 2027

Participation through language and democracy. Evaluation of a basic education programme offered by Urania Steiermark
Project manager: Philipp Assinger (Department of Adult and Continuing Education)
Funding body: Urania Steiermark
Duration: 2025

EDU-LAB: European youth in education and in transition to the labour market
Project manager: Natalila Wächter (Department of Social Pedagogy
Funding body: European Commission
Duration: 2025 - 2027

Gen Z Study - ‘Making the future a better place’: Emerging Adults as Actors of Social Change
Project management: Natalia Wächter (Department of Social Pedagogy)
Funding body: ESRAD - The European Society for Research in Adult Development
Duration: 2024 - 2025

Study on external childcare in Austria – reasons, quality development, prevention
Project management: Arno Heimgartenr (Department of Social Pedagogy)
Funding body: FH Joanneum Gesellschaft mbH
Duration: 2024 - 2026

Future scenarios for the application of artificial intelligence in child and youth work
Project management: Sabine Klinger (Department of Social Pedagogy)
Funding body: Future Fund of the Province of Styria
Duration: 2024 - 2025

Child welfare services, disabled children, and their families A comparative analysis of social policy and practice in Austria, Iceland, and Ireland
Project management: Rahel More (Department of Social Pedagogy)
Funding body: Academy of Sciences
Duration: 2024 to 2028

digi@youthwork – Development and testing of a training course for digital child and youth work
Project management: Sabine Klinger (Department of Social Pedagogy)
Funding body: AK Steiermark
Duration: 2023 - 2025