Impact

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 NGO Academy Online Keynote focussing on the implications of rising needs in mineral resources for geo-politics.

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.

You’re warmly invited to join us for Olivia Lazard’s NGO Academy Online Keynote on the rise of geo-strategy in energy transition.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We’re excited to invite you to this keynote with Kate Raworth and Leonora Grcheva on Doughnut Economics and its implementation

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.

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.

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!

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.

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!

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

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

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.

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.

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