Impact
The NGO Academy network is working to achieve a positive impact on society day by day. Its members give impulses for progressive change. Here we want to share insights from the field as well as updates and inspiring stories.




Taking the train: from Bucharest to Vienna in 20 hours
Our member Stefania took the time and decided to travel from Bucharest to Vienna and back by train. Read about her experience with and the environmental impact of that decision here!

Watch: The rise of geo-strategy in energy transition – Olivia Lazard
Watch the NGO Academy Online Keynote focussing on the implications of rising needs in mineral resources for geo-politics.

Members Breakfast: How are civil society organisations doing in Ukraine’s neighbouring countries?
The third edition of NGO Academys’ Members Breakfast took place in November 2022 and provided insights into the current situation in the regions most affected by the war.

Keynote: Democracy and peace at stake? The rise of geo-strategy in energy transition
You’re warmly invited to join us for Olivia Lazard’s NGO Academy Online Keynote on the rise of geo-strategy in energy transition.

NGO Academy Member Story #7: How remesh gives a second life to old advertising material
Our member organisation Ateliere Fără Frontiere started a new social and circular business, called remesh, which gives advertising materials a second, long-lasting life as bags, wallets and more.

NGO Academy Member Story #6: The war in Ukraine – Elena Ajder & Edward Lucaci give insights how Moldovan organisations respond to the situation
Our members Edward and Elena are working relentlessy to help Ukrainian refugees with shelter, food, healthcare and education. Read all about it in our sixth Member Story.

Introducing: Community-Led Events
Our team has been working hard on something new in the past months and we’re very excited to share the latest addition to our programmes with you: Community-Led Events, or short, CLEs.

NGO Academy Member Story #5: a portrait of Zahra Hashimi
Zahra Hashimi is an inspiring and strong person. Read about her story from fleeing from the Taliban to founding an online school to ensure the education of girls in Afghanistan here.

NGO Academy Member Story #4: Implementation of workshop learnings – a success story by Dijana Pejić
In May 2022, Dijana participated in our workshop “Empowering others to become fincancially savvy”. With the newly acquired learnings and materials, she could implement her own workshop in her organisation Genesis Project.

You’re invited: NGO Academy Keynote on Doughnut Economics!
We’re excited to invite you to this keynote with Kate Raworth and Leonora Grcheva on Doughnut Economics and its implementation

It’s the media, stupid!
Under this expressive title a two-day workshop on media and PR took place in Vienna, May 2-3, as part of our Regional Programme.

The biggest NGO Academy event so far: the Alumni Module 2022
We wrote history! 44 alumni of 3 Social Innovation & Management Programme editions (re-)united in Vienna from May 18-20 for our biggest physical event so far.

EU Funding & Tender Opportunities
The ninth European research and innovation framework programme, Horizon Europe, invests in areas that are of strategic importance for Europe. We listed some of their most interesting open calls from the 2021 – 2022 work programmes here!

The first module of the Social Innovation and Management Programme 2022 is completed!
It was a great pleasure to welcome 25 participants here in Vienna at the Kardinal König Haus from February 21 to February 25, 2022 for our yearly Social Innovation and Management Programme.

The winter semester 2021/22 of our Regional Programme has passed succesfully
We’ve successfully completed the winter semester of our Regional Programme and proudly look back on three months filled with Workshops, Online Coachings and Webinars!

NGO Academy Member Story #3: Irina Adascalitei, CONCORDIA Academia, Romania
Take a look behind the scenes of CONCORDIA Academia with Irina Adascalitei, CEO of CONCORDIA Academia in the already third NGO Academy Member Story.

Save the Date! NGO Academy Keynote: The Promise and Peril of Philanthropy in an Age of Growing Inequality
We are honored to announce an online keynote with Professor Rob Reich from Stanford University, followed by a moderated discussion with Professor Michael Meyer (WU

NGO Academy Member Story #2: Jehona Gjurgjeala and Rreze Hoxha, TOKA, Kosovo
For our second NGO Academy Member Story, we recently talked to Jehona and Rreze from TOKA, a Kosovo-based organisation empowering the country’s youth from disadvantaged backgrounds to being tomorrow’s leaders of change.

NGO Academy Member Story #1: Dijana Pejić, GENESIS PROJECT, Bosnia and Herzegovina
For the first ever NGO Academy Member Story we talked with Dijana Pejić. She is executive director of Genesis Project, a civil society organisation based in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina and works with and for children from marginalized groups and children with disabilities.

Publication: Partnership in Times of COVID-19: Government and Civil Society in Austria
The team of the Competence Center for Nonprofit Organisations and Social Entrepreneurship at WU Vienna published a new research paper. The authors analyzed how the