Social innovations are social practices that address novel solutions in response to transformative processes in the economy and society, which are hardly or not at all taken into account solely through technical innovation perspectives. How they emerge and are experimentally implemented in all areas of (co)life, in business and work, education and politics, is being scientifically investigated from the research perspective of "real laboratories".
The TRAWOS-Institute investigates among other things:
Cultural and creative industries are becoming increasingly important both as an economic factor and as an attractor for demography and regional development. Both economic and social, cultural and ultimately ecological innovations, transformations and developments of a city or region increasingly depend on the existence of "creative atmospheres and milieus" or the so-called "creative class".
The TRAWOS-Institute deals with the following research questions:
Social and cultural innovations in sustainable structural change in Lusatia (01/2023 - 12/2024)
BePart: Participation and partnerships in structural change. Penetrating social innovations in Lusatia and strengthening them in practice (10/2022 - 09/2025)
ATRAKTIV: Building transformative capacities to activate regional innovation systems (11/2022 - 10/2025)
The creative challenges of open societies at their margins using the example of the transformation process in Lusatia (04/2020 - 12/2022)
ENKOR - Engagement constellations in rural areas - an East-West comparison (05/2021 - 12/2024)
Volunteering and upheaval: Gender- and region-specific problems of civic engagement in times of structural change (09/2020 - 08/2021)