Our Story
As social scientists, we are fascinated by life in the city and in the countryside. We observe that many innovations are designed and developed for urban environments – and rural regions then have to follow suit, late and with high infrastructure costs. Now we have just moved (back) to the countryside and want to play an active role in changing that! We want to shape innovation in such a way that it benefits as many people as possible and is affordable.
The TRePSTI Institute
The TRePSTI Institute was founded as an association in Neulengbach in 2022 to provide a framework for our networking and design activities. Our projects are about capturing or designing socio-technical cooperation solutions and adapting them specifically for rural regions. By cooperative solutions we mean the combination of technological and social structures that enable mutual exchange relationships for the common good. The members of the association are individuals and institutions who wish to actively participate in the innovation processes. By the way, our elegent acronym is made up of Transdisciplinary Research in Policy, Science, Technology and Innovation.
What we do
In of our non-profit activity, we bring together know-how from different disciplines in order to find the best solutions for rural areas. For this purpose, we run and extend this website and inform about relevant developments, organise projects, workshops and exchange opportunities and participate in or accompany research and education projects ourselves. Our members are either organisations that want to get directly involved in the design processes, individuals with an interest in rural development or sustaining members.