Expert
Consulting
With an international team of strategic advisors, former political campaigners, diplomats, entrepreneurs, and researchers, the Innovation in Politics Institute can help turn bold, impactful ideas into reality.
Ready for Anything
Do you have a big task that needs a completely new approach? Then you came to the right place.
In addition to our in-house experts, we identify expertise across Europe and beyond, bringing together the best people and practices for your project.
Then we put the pieces together, assembling relevant stakeholders to provide bespoke solutions to your unique challenges.
Stories of Collaboration & Impact
Managing a Fund for Digitisation Projects
When Austria’s Chamber of Labour (AK), representing over 4 million workers, saw how digital tools were reshaping the workplace, they asked a critical question: How can we ensure digitisation works in favor of employees, not just employers?
Together with AK experts, we co-designed a digitisation fund in Vienna and Upper Austria. The fund supports projects developed jointly by company leaders and works councils, ensuring that the solutions are tailored to real needs on the ground.
An expert jury has now selected 250 projects, distributing €18 million in funding. As a result, more than 300,000 workers in Upper Austria have seen tangible improvements in their working conditions—proof that technology, when done right, can empower people.
Evaluating a National GovTech Lab
When asked by a national government to conduct a comprehensive evaluation of their GovTech Lab, aimed at fostering innovation in public administration, we were only too happy to help shape its future.
We started by listening, conducting interviews with key players across the Lab’s ecosystem to understand how it operated and what kind of difference it was making. In parallel, we looked outward, researching leading examples of government technology (GovTech) labs around the world.
What emerged was a clear picture: strengths to build upon, gaps to address, and real opportunities for growth. We compiled our insights into a final report, complete with strategic recommendations, giving the Lab a roadmap to deepen its effectiveness and continue innovating for the public good.
Improving Support for Older Jobseekers
Austria’s Federal Ministry of Labour was reimagining a program for people over 50 facing long-term unemployment. They wanted to know: What works—and how can we do it better?
To find out, we explored programs across Europe with a proven track record of helping older individuals return to work. By identifying what these high-performing initiatives had in common, we uncovered the success factors that really made a difference.
But we didn’t stop at research. We brought the Ministry into direct dialogue with the people behind these programs, creating space for real-time learning and exchange. The result: a stronger, smarter design for Austria’s approach, rooted in what works.
Stories of Collaboration & Impact
Managing a Fund for Digitisation Projects
When Austria’s Chamber of Labour (AK), representing over 4 million workers, saw how digital tools were reshaping the workplace, they asked a critical question: How can we ensure digitisation works in favor of employees, not just employers?
Together with AK experts, we co-designed a digitisation fund in Vienna and Upper Austria. The fund supports projects developed jointly by company leaders and works councils, ensuring that the solutions are tailored to real needs on the ground.
An expert jury has now selected 250 projects, distributing €18 million in funding. As a result, more than 300,000 workers in Upper Austria have seen tangible improvements in their working conditions—proof that technology, when done right, can empower people.
Evaluating a National GovTech Lab
When asked by a national government to conduct a comprehensive evaluation of their GovTech Lab, aimed at fostering innovation in public administration, we were only too happy to help shape its future.
We started by listening, conducting interviews with key players across the Lab’s ecosystem to understand how it operated and what kind of difference it was making. In parallel, we looked outward, researching leading examples of government technology (GovTech) labs around the world.
What emerged was a clear picture: strengths to build upon, gaps to address, and real opportunities for growth. We compiled our insights into a final report, complete with strategic recommendations, giving the Lab a roadmap to deepen its effectiveness and continue innovating for the public good.
Improving Support for Older Jobseekers
Austria’s Federal Ministry of Labour was reimagining a program for people over 50 facing long-term unemployment. They wanted to know: What works—and how can we do it better?
To find out, we explored programs across Europe with a proven track record of helping older individuals return to work. By identifying what these high-performing initiatives had in common, we uncovered the success factors that really made a difference.
But we didn’t stop at research. We brought the Ministry into direct dialogue with the people behind these programs, creating space for real-time learning and exchange. The result: a stronger, smarter design for Austria’s approach, rooted in what works.
What We Deliver
Collaborative creation
If you have the beginnings of an idea for a project, we can help you bring it to life, not by simply telling you what to do, but by listening and working with you to figure things out.
Innovative implementation
Our team works alongside you from design through delivery, adapting to change and responding to challenges, while ensuring outcomes are practical and ready for real-world application.
Expert Advisory
Our team has experience ideating, designing, planning, managing, improving, and evaluating innovative political projects at all levels and across policy areas.
Learning & Impact
We bake in reflection, measurement, and evaluation, so that you can understand what works and why, and your project generates insights, improves over time, and creates lasting value.
What We Deliver
Collaborative creation
If you have the beginnings of an idea for a project, we can help you bring it to life, not by simply telling you what to do, but by listening and working with you to figure things out.
Innovative implementation
Our team works alongside you from design through delivery, adapting to change and responding to challenges, while ensuring outcomes are practical and ready for real-world application.
Expert Advisory
Our team has experience ideating, designing, planning, managing, improving, and evaluating innovative political projects at all levels and across policy areas.
Learning & Impact
We bake in reflection, measurement, and evaluation, so that you can understand what works and why, and your project generates insights, improves over time, and creates lasting value.
What our partners say
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Circular economy and re-use have great potential to contribute to a sustainable transformation. I look forward to the conference, to exciting conversations and valuable initiatives.
ERICH HAIDER
Chairman of the board and CEO of LINZ AG -
Improving politics is essential for democracy in a changed environment. So we need to provide encouragement and rewards – like the European Capital of Democracy initiative does – for providing new and real democracy to all.
AXELLE LEMAIRE
Former French Minister of State for Digital Affairs -
Digital tools for democratic participation present us with a real opportunity. They provide people who struggle to get involved – such as women busy with care work – with a chance to take part in the decision-making process.
ELISABETH MAYR
Deputy Mayor of Innsbruck, Representative of the Austrian Association of Cities and Towns -
Safe Democracy sets a strong example for co-determination and transparency. Together, we confront the challenge of laying the foundations for a secure, participative future.
JÜRGEN CZERNOHORSZKY
Executive City Councillor for Climate, Environment, Democracy and Personnel, Vienna -
We need to manage change in democracy if we do not want the enemies of democracy to do it for us.
IVAN KRASTEV
Chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies -
Safe Democracy is the ideal platform for us to work together to improve our democratic services, to boost the quality of life of our citizens, and to improve our resilience to disinformation.
THOMAS WENINGER
General Secretary of the Austrian Association of Cities and Towns -
Values like truth, democracy, and independent thinking are heavily under attack. And all of them are important pillars of prosperity – let us protect them!
ANDREAS TREICHL
Chairman of ERSTE Foundation -
In Linz, we've set ourselves a major task: to achieve climate neutrality in the most energy intensive industry of all. This convention is Linz's forum to promote ongoing exchange between businesses, interest groups, universities, administrations and politics.
DIETMAR PRAMMER
Mayor of Linz -
I am a big believer in engaging people in the development of the cities and places where they live. Authentic and transparent local politics may help to fix the trust in democracy.
MATÚŠ VALLO
Architect, City Activist, and Mayor of Bratislava -
The H2 Convention in Linz provides us with a platform for an even stronger supra-regional network and international exchange of experiences. It allows us to break down barriers, to learn from one another, and to drive forward the building of the hydrogen economy across borders.
SUSANNA ZAPREVA
CRO/COO VERBUND AG
The challenges we face demand new ways of working together. If you want to drive real change and be part of a mission-driven collaboration, let’s talk.