Handbooks

Guides from CTSi-funded projects

Handbooks from projects the CTSi funded or supported. They record what worked, so that other teams can follow without the detours.
Cover showing the words TECH DESIGN SPRINT
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Handbook · Edition 1.0 · Vienna 2026

Tech Design Sprint

A guide to designing, organising and running a Tech Design Sprint

The Tech Design Sprint is a format developed by the CTSi and run regularly since 2022: interdisciplinary teams spend three days on a real challenge at the interface between technology and society. The handbook collects the experience of several editions and covers the whole way from project initiation through challenge definition, partner engagement, the application procedure and the engagement event to the three sprint days themselves. A separate chapter gathers success factors and recurring pitfalls; the appendix holds the question guide, the student application form and a skill sheet for composing teams. Edited by Hilda Tellioğlu and Anna Franzkowiak, with editorial work by Matthia Link, Maya Kema Ducke and Noah Pfander. The handbook is in German.
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PDF
Length
28 pages
File size
1.7 MB
Language
German
Published
Vienna 2026
Cover of the handbook showing the words SUMMER SCHOOL
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Handbook · Vienna 2022

how 2 SUMMER SCHOOL

A guide to organising transdisciplinary, regional summer schools

The handbook collects what the team learned running Summer School 21 “Zukunftsland Lungau – Innovation, Gender Arrangements and the Rural Area” and turns it into something other teams can reuse. It covers the whole way from the first decision to the final invoice: a timeline starting 14 months ahead, roles in the organising and teaching team, a budget checklist, the application procedure, a collection of tried formats and methods, and two fully worked model week plans. Written by Grinzinger, Kayser, Sterna and Stumfol at the Institute of Spatial Planning, TU Wien. The handbook is in German.
Format
PDF
Length
32 pages
File size
1.3 MB
Language
German
Published
Vienna 2022