Ideas workshop: Innovation transfer

26. Mai 2026
14:00 bis 17:00 Uhr

Education Lab
Maderstraße 1
1040 Vienna

Many effective ideas and approaches are emerging in the education system. But how do they find their way further into the system? In these workshops, different stakeholders come together to jointly consider how effective concepts can be better disseminated in the education system.


Please send registrations to diego.heatherman@edlab.at

What you can expect:

  • Welcome & short introduction to the new project “Close the Gap
  • Reflection to set the mood: How do new ideas come to schools?
  • Situation mapping: Insight into the research results of interviews and focus groups – how are ideas currently spreading, what factors promote or hinder this?
  • Think tank: How do we strengthen the transfer of ideas between schools?
  • Plan steps: Together we identify the most important next steps for our ideas
  • Outlook: What’s next for the project and how you can get involved

For whom?

Everyone who shapes, accompanies and experiences the education system:

  • Teachers
  • Pupils
  • School management
  • Parents
  • Educational initiatives
  • Administration – PHs, University, City of Vienna, Education Directorate, Ministry
  • …and more!


Coworking in the Education Lab in front can be used.

This project is funded by the FFG (www.ffg.at). The FFG is the central national funding organization and strengthens Austria’s innovative power.
This event marks the start of a new FFG-funded project “Close the Gap” project funded by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG), which addresses precisely these questions and aims to work out over the next few months in interviews, focus groups and workshops how we can strengthen the transfer of innovation in the education sector. If you are interested in taking part, please contact the project manager Diego Heatherman: diego.heatherman@edlab.at.

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