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Mag. Gerald Berger, MSc.

Senior Researcher and Project Manager

Tel.: +43-1-31336-4807
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I stand for

  • Research and publications in the fields of
    • Sustainable development policy-making,
    • Multi-level governance,
    • Regional sustainable development,
    • Innovation and sustainable development,
    • Corporate social responsibility,
    • Environmental management in the business sector.
  • Policy analysis, scientific project management, consultation on issues of sustainable development, multi-level governance and corporate social responsibility.
  • Conceptualization, organization and management of conference, workshops and events for sustainable development, governance and corporate social responsibility.

References

  • Research Fellow at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Comparative Research in the Social Sciences (ICCR), Vienna, Austria (2001-06)
    • Scientific project manager: “Regional Innovation Policy Impact Assessment and Benchmarking Process: Cooperation for Sustainable Regional Innovation” (EURO-COOP), funded under the EU’s 6th Framework Programme for Research, 2005-06
    • Scientific project manager: “Strategies for Regional Sustainable Development – An Integrated Approach Beyond Best Practice” (REGIONET), funded under the EU’s 5th Framework Programme for Research, 2002-2004
    • Research into sustainable development, multi-level governance, regional policy-making, regional sustainable development, Structural Funds, environmental governance, etc, in various EU funded research projects.
  • Studentship at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology and Society (IAS-STS), Graz, Austria (2000)
    • Research into “Design-for-the-environment as part of a strategy towards ecological modernization: Evaluating technological innovations in industry and their promotion through instruments of environmental policy-making”
  • Research Assistant at the School for City and Regional Planning, Cardiff University, Wales, UK (1999-2000)
    • Research project about environmental supply chain management in Industrial South Wales, UK, funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
  • Research Assistant at the Austrian Society for the Environment and Technology, Vienna, Austria (1998)
    • Undertaking first Austrian-wide feasibility study about environmental mediation

Background

  • Master of Science (MSc) in Sustainability, Planning and Environmental Policy at Cardiff University, Wales, UK (1998-99)
  • Master of Arts (MA) in Political Science at University of Salzburg (1991-98)
  • Business High School in Salzburg (1986-91)

Curriculum Vitae

CV with a list of most important publications

Projects

Projects
2010-2012 CORPUS - Enhancing Connectivity between Research and Policy-making in Sustainable Consumption (Details)
2009-2015 FP7-4-SD.EU - Implementation and Maintenance of a Monitoring System for FP7 (Details)
2008-2011 EUROSTAT Monitoring Report of the European Sustainable Development Strategy (Details)
2007-2008 Review of the Serbian Sustainable Development (SD) Strategy (Details)
2007-2008 Study on contributions of the regional and local authorities to sustainable development strategies (Details)
2007-2008 Weiterentwicklung der Deutschen Nachhaltigkeitsstrategie - Internationale Vergleichsstudie zu gesellschaftlichen Konsultationsprozessen bei der Formulierung und Weiterentwicklung nationaler Nachhaltigkeitsstrategien (Details)
2007-2007 Wissenschaftliche Betreuung des Workshop "Unternehmen und soziale Nachhaltigkeit - umsetzen, bewerten, auszeichnen" (Details)
2006-2008 CSR policies in Europe - Analysis of national public policies on CSR, in support of a structured exchange of information on national CSR policies and initiatives (Details)
2006-2009 European Sustainable Development Network (ESDN) (Details)
2006-2008 New Governance und Sustainability (Details)

Publications

WU-Network

Publications
Journal Article
2010 Steurer, Reinhard, Berger, Gerald, Hametner, Markus. 2010. The vertical integration of Lisbon and sustainable development strategies across the EU: How different governance architectures shape the European coherence of policy documents. Natural Resources Forum 34 71-84. (Details)
2004 Berger, Gerald, Michael, Narodoslawsky. 2004. Editorial: Regional Sustainable Development - The Role of Structural Funds. Innovation 17 (1): 3-9. (Details)
2003 Berger, Gerald. 2003. Reflections on Governance: Power Relations and Policy Making in Regional Sustainable Development. Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning 5 (3): 219-234. (Details)
2001 Berger, Gerald, Flynn, Andrew, Hines, Frances, Johns, Richard. 2001. Ecological Modernization as a Basis for Environmental Policy: Current Environmental Discourse and Policy and the Implications on the Envrinmental Supply Chain Management. Innovation 14 (2): 55-72. (Details)
Chapter in Book
2010 Berger, Gerald, Sedlacko, Michal. Forthcoming. Participation and multilevel design of NSDSs. In: Governance für Nachhaltige Entwicklung: Prinzipien und Praktiken, Hrsg. Steurer, R., Berger, G., Trattnig, R., Ökom Verlag. (Details)
2010 Berger, Gerald, Zwirner, Wilhelm, von Raggamby, Anneke, Sedlacko, Michal, Knoblauch, Doris. Forthcoming. Participation in NSDSs. In: Governance für Nachhaltige Entwicklung: Prinzipien und Praktiken, Hrsg. Steurer, R., Berger, G., Trattnig, R., Ökom Verlag. (Details)
2009 Berger, Gerald. 2009. Good governance. In: Sustainable development in the European Union - 2009 monitoring report of the EU sustainable development strategy, Hrsg. EUROSTAT, 258-274. Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities. (Details)
2008 Berger, Gerald, Steurer, Reinhard. 2008. The Regional Level in National Sustainable Development Strategy Processes: Experiences with Vertical Policy Integration in Europe. In In Pursuit of Sustainable Development: New Governance Practices at the Sub-National Level in Europe, Hrsg. Baker, S. & Eckerberg, K., forthc.-forthc.. London: Routledge. (Details)
2008 Berger, Gerald. 2008. Sustainability Impact Assessment: European Approaches. In: Conducting Sustainability Assessments, Hrsg. OECD, 15-34. Paris: OECD. (Details)
Contribution to the Proceedings of a Meeting
2006 Berger, Gerald. 2006. Policy Integration and Capacity-Building in Regional Sustainable Development: Analysis of Experiences in Europe. In 2004 Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change, FFU-Report, Hrsg. FFU, ?-?. Berlin: (Details)
Paper presented at scientific Meeting
2009 Steurer, Reinhard, Berger, Gerald. 2009. Comparing the multilevel governance architecture of two EU Strategies: The Lisbon Process and the EU Sustainable Development Strategy. ECPR Joint Sessions, The Politics of Governance Architectures: Institutions, Power and Public Policy in the EU Lisbon Strategy (Workshop "The Politics of Governance Architectures: Institutions, Power and Public Policy in the EU Lisbon Strategy), Lissabon, Portugal, 14.04.-19.04.. (Details)
2009 Sedlacko, Michal, Berger, Gerald. 2009. Evaluation of Participation and Participation in Evaluation: Lessons from the Reviews of National Sustainable Development Strategies. EASY-ECO International Conference, Budapest, Ungarn, 16.10.-18.10.. (Details)
2009 Berger, Gerald. 2009. Governance for Sustainable Development: Concepts, principles and challenges. Expert Workshop of the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, Brussels, Belgien, 03.12.. (Details)
2009 Berger, Gerald. 2009. Sustainable Public Procurement (SPP): Experiences in Europe. International Conference on Sustainable Public Procurement, Santiago de Chile, Chile, 26.11.. (Details)
2009 Berger, Gerald. 2009. Governance for Sustainable Development: Concepts, prinicples and challenges. Expert Workshop of the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, Brussels, Belgien, 3 December 2009. (Details)
2009 Berger, Gerald. 2009. Sustainable Public Procurement (SPP): Experiences in Europe. International Conference on Sustainable Public Procurement, Santiago de Chile, Chile, 26 November 2009. (Details)
2008 Berger, Gerald. 2008. Sustainability Impact Assessment: Definitions, Approaches and Applications in Europe. EASY-ECO Vienna Conference 2008 "Governance by Evaluation: Institutional Capacities and Learning for Sustainable Development", Vienna, Österreich, 12.03.-14.03.. (Details)
2008 Berger, Gerald. 2008. Survey Results – Link between the Lisbon Strategy and the EU SDS and coordination in the EU Member States. ESDN Workshop "Post-2010: The Future of the EU SDS and its Interface with the Lisbon Process", Brüssel, Belgien, 19 November. (Details)
2008 Berger, Gerald. 2008. Sustainability Imapct Assessment: Definitions, Approaches and Objectives. OECD Workshop on Sustainability Assessment Methodologies, Amsterdam, Niederlande, 14.01.-15.01.. (Details)
2007 Steurer, Reinhard, Berger, Gerald. 2007. CSR Policies in EU Member States. International Workshop on "The Role of Government in (C)SR", Side Event to the 5th ISO Social Responsibility Plenary Meeting; Vienna School of International Studies, Vienna, Österreich, 03.11.. (Details)
2007 Steurer, Reinhard, Berger, Gerald. 2007. Policies on CSR in Europe: An Overview of Topics and Instruments. Tagung der Kommission Umweltwirtschaft im Verband der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft e.V., Wien, Österreich, 05.10.-05.10.. (Details)
2007 Steurer, Reinhard, Berger, Gerald. 2007. Raising Awareness for CSR in EU Member States: Case Studies & Synthesis (presentation of project results). 15th meeting of the EU High-Level Group on CSR (CSR HLG), Brussels, Belgien, 07.05.-07.05.. (Details)
2007 Steurer, Reinhard, Berger, Gerald. 2007. Sustainable Public Procurement in EU Member States – Case studies and conclusions. 16th meeting of the EU High-Level Group on CSR (CSR HLG), Brussels, Belgien, 16.10.. (Details)
2005 Berger, Gerald, Steurer, Reinhard. 2005. National Strategies for Sustainable Development and their Implications on the Regional Level: Overview of Experiences with Vertical Policy Integration in Europe. ECPR Joint Sessions, Workshop 17: “Initiating Sustainable Development: Patterns of Sub-National Engagement and their Significance”, Granada, Spanien, 14.04.-19.04.. (Details)
Working/Discussion Paper, Preprint
2009 Berger, Gerald. 2009. New Drive for Sustainable Development Strategies - The Power of Smart Linkages, Background and Discussion Paper, ESDN Workshop, 3-4 November 2009 in Brussels. (Details)
2009 Berger, Gerald, Gjoksi, Nisida, Zwirner, Wilhelm. 2009. Options and Opportunities for the Future EU Sustainable Development Strategy, Discussion Paper, ESDN Conference 2009; 17-19 June 2009 in Prague, Czech Republic. (Details)
2008 Steurer, Reinhard, Margula, Sharon, Berger, Gerald. 2008. Coordinating SCP and CSR policies with Sustainable Development Strategies; Discussion Paper for the European Sustainable Development Network (ESDN) Conference 2008; June 29-July 1, 2008 in Paris, France. (Details)
2008 Berger, Gerald, Hametner, Markus, Martinuzzi, Robert-Andre. 2008. “Coordinating SCP and CSR policies with Sustainable Development Strategies” - Proceedings of the European Sustainable Development Network/ESDN Conference 2008, June 29 – July 1, Paris/France. (Details)
2007 Berger, Gerald, Hametner, Markus, Steurer, Reinhard. 2007. European Sustainability Berlin 07: Conference Proceedings of the European Sustainable Development Network/ESDN Conference 2007, June 3-5, 2007, Berlin/Germany. (Details)
2007 Steurer, Reinhard, Berger, Gerald. 2007. Linking Politics and Administration in SD Policy Making. Discussion Paper I for the ESDN Conference "European Sustainability Berlin 2007", 3-5 June 2007, Berlin/Germany. (Details)
2006 Berger, Gerald, Steurer, Reinhard. 2006. Sustainable Development goes Mozart: Conference Proceedings of the European Sustainable Development Network/ESDN Conference 2006, June 1-2, 2006, Salzburg/Austria. (Details)
Research Report, Expertise
2009 Steurer, Reinhard, Berger, Gerald, Schäfer, Astrid. 2009. Public policies on CSR awareness raising in the EU-25: Background paper for the working group 6 of the German CSR forum, on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Labour and Social Affairs. Vienna: Research Institute for Managing Sustainability. (Details)
2009 Berger, Gerald, Steurer, Reinhard. 2009. Horizontal Policy Integration and Sustainable Development: Conceptual remarks and governance examples, ESDN Quarterly Report, June 2009. Vienna: Research Institute for Managing Sustainability. (Details)
2009 Berger, Gerald, Sedlacko, Michal. 2009. Involvement of sub-national authorities in National Sustainable Development Strategy processess, ESDN Quarterly Report, March 2009. Vienna: Research Institute for Managing Sustainability. (Details)
2009 Berger, Gerald, Gjoksi, Nisida. 2009. Sustainable development strategies beyond Europe, ESDN Quarterly Report, September 2009. Vienna: Research Institute for Managing Sustainability. (Details)
2008 Steurer, Reinhard, Margula, Sharon, Berger, Gerald. 2008. Public policies on CSR in EU Member States: Overview of government initiatives and selected cases on Awareness Raising for CSR, Sustainable Public Procurement and Socially Responsible Investment. Vienna: ESDN Quarterly Report June 2008. (Details)
2008 Berger, Gerald, Sedlacko, Michal. 2008. Contributions of the Regional and Local Authorities to the Sustainable Development Strategies, Final Report, Project commissioned by the Committee of the Regions (CDR/ETU/24/2007). Vienna: Research Institute for Managing Sustainability. (Details)
2007 Berger, Gerald, Steurer, Reinhard, Konrad, Astrid, Martinuzzi, Robert-Andre. 2007. Raising Awareness for CSR in EU Member States: Overview of government initiatives and selected cases. Vienna: Final Report to the High-Level Group on CSR. (Details)
2007 Steurer, Reinhard, Berger, Gerald, Konrad, Astrid, Martinuzzi, Robert-Andre. 2007. Sustainable Public Procurement in EU Member States: Overview of government initiatives and selected cases. Vienna: Final Report to the EU High-Level Group on CSR. (Details)
Multimedia
2006 Steurer, Reinhard, Kopp, Ursula, Hametner, Markus, Berger, Gerald. 2006. Homepage of the European Sustainable Development Network/ESDN. European Sustainable Development Network/ESDN. (Details)
Magazine/Newspaper Article
2008 Steurer, Reinhard, Hametner, Markus, Berger, Gerald, Rametsteiner, Ewald. 2008. The Governance of the Lisbon Process: National Reform Programmes, Structural Indicators and Sustainable Development Strategies. ESDN Quarterly Report March 2008, 31.03. (Details)
2007 Berger, Gerald, Hametner, Markus, Steurer, Reinhard. 2007. Strategic Approaches to Climate Change in Europe: EU policies and strategies, provisions in SD strategies and overview of national climate change strategies. ESDN Quarterly Report September 2007, 01.10. (Details)
2007 Berger, Gerald. 2007. Sustainability Impact Assessment: Approaches and applications in Europe. ESDN Quarterly Report, June 2007, 01.06. (Details)
2007 Berger, Gerald, Steurer, Reinhard. 2007. The EU SDS Process in the Member States: SDS Coordinators, National Progress Reports and the Open Method of Coordination. ESDN Quarterly Report March 2007, 01.03. (Details)
2006 Berger, Gerald, Steurer, Reinhard. 2006. The Finnish National Commission on Sustainable Development (SD) and the UK's SD Commission: Two distinct models of involving stakeholders in SD policy making. ESDN Quarterly Report December 2006, 16.12. (Details)
2006 Berger, Gerald, Steurer, Reinhard. 2006. Evaluation and Review of National Sustainable Development Strategies. ESDN Quarterly Report September 2006, 01.09. (Details)
Unpublished Lecture
2006 Steurer, Reinhard, Berger, Gerald. 2006. Mutual learning through the European Sustainable Development Network (ESDN) and Peer Reviews. start-up meeting of the peer-review of Norway's national strategy for sustainable development, Stockholm, 08.12. (Details)
2006 Steurer, Reinhard, Berger, Gerald, Konrad, Astrid, Martinuzzi, Robert-Andre. 2006. CSR Awareness Raising in EU Member States. 14th meeting of High-Level Social Representatives on CSR (CSR HLG), Brussels, 23.10. (Details)

 
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