📋 Tender Overview
Project sponsor: Mattersburger Circle for Development Policy at Austrian Universities
Country: Austria Funding amount: € 477,000.00 Start: 01.01.2024 End: 31.12.2026
SHORT DESCRIPTION:
project goal
The aim of the programme is to improve the quality of development work and to stimulate critical discourse on education and development research and their practice by offering science-based content, in-depth background and structural knowledge and reflection, particularly on the topic of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Agenda 2030.
expected results
Publication and communication department:
- 12 issues of the Journal for Development Policy (print edition 250 copies, online 4,500 hits per year)
- Relaunch of the website www.mattersburgerkreis.at
- 1 volume of the book series 'Society – Development – ??Politics' (print run 1,000 copies)
- 3 issues of the publication 'Action and Reflection' (print and digital)
- Online magazine (www.pfz.at) with 150 new articles
- Two regular newsletters (15 Mattersburger Kreis to 1,800 people, and 50 Paulo Freire Zentrum to 3,000 people)
- 6 film contributions (on YouTube and in the media library)
- 15 podcasts '100xFreire'
- At least 50,000 people are reached indirectly (through website, film and radio, as well as through media and press work, management of several social media accounts)
Events area:
- 1 major event: 9th Austrian Development Conference 2025 and 2-3 preliminary events
- 15-18 online events in the format 'Peace&Justice-talks'
- 13 book or magazine presentations (online) and 3 other events on the topic of critical education - discourses on global trends and educational debates
target group
Main target groups: Scientists from different disciplines, multipliers in the fields of development policy and international development (employees of government institutions and NGOs, the scientific community in the field of development research, and generally socially relevant institutions), students and young people.
A direct reach of around 10,000 people is expected, and an indirect reach of around 50,000 people.
Cooperation partners include: Partner at the C3 location - Center for International Development, AG Global Responsibility, Institute for International Development at the University of Vienna, other universities (especially Innsbruck, Salzburg, Graz and Linz), Appear - Austrian Partnership Programme in Higher Education and Research for Development, as well as other partners in the areas of development research and development policy education.
Region: Vienna, Innsbruck, Austria-wide
Measures
In keeping with its integral communication concept, the Mattersburger Circle uses a wide range of available media and event formats that focus on the transdisciplinary discussion of issues of international development.
A particular focus of work in 2024-2026 is SDG 16 (peace, justice and strong institutions) as a necessary prerequisite for achieving all other SDGs. A series
